Lights out. Show starts.
There's a lady. There's an empty box with shimmering lights, shaped of a human. The lights got brighter and brighter then BAM! There he was, materialised from the lights, LU CHEN!!!!! AH!!!!!!!!!! *crowd went crazy*
Exciting music started to blast. First act, Metamorphosis. Lu Chen went into the box, girl stands outside the box. With the wave of the shiny cloth, they switched places in a split second!!! I have seen this effect many times in videos but it just looks 1000x more awesome when it happened right in front of my eyes!!! *shouts*
(I couldn't remember clearly the sequence of this performances)
His performance was spectacular! His sense of humour was definitely what everyone enjoyed a lot. The excited got everyone sitting at the edge of their seats. He took the guy's 100SGD bank note and with nothing in his hand he changed it into two!!! Two 50's that is. Still, he had his sleeves rolled up, no way man! He did the same effect later in his show, where he took two 2SGD notes and turned it into 100SGD!!!! Untung 96SGD!!! Funny that it was the same guy who offered the 100SGD before.
He also did mentalism. He predicted the woman's handphone number!!! He got a kiss from that lady in return. Haha, what a showman!
Squeeze, a totally new never before seen stage magic effect. He said its name in Spanish. Girl goes in between two planks. The two planks are pushed together. SLAM!!! Lu Chen took out a cardboard girl from in between. Haha. And when the planks are pulled apart, the girl was there!
Then, then, then, Lu Chen sawed a women in half. A different approach to an old effect. He had two specators to tie up her neck and feet. They pulled tight on the ropes so that there's no way she could've escaped. Two real strong metal plates are slammed into her abdomen part! She was unharmed in the end. Magic!
And he did his classic card manipulation act as well. There's a minor flaw. Though the performance was really smooth and totally an eye opener. His card manipulating skills are impeccable!
I totally loved his floating linking rings! (I'm not sure of the exact name so I'll just name the effect whatever it seemed to be) You know the classic metals rings that link together. But his, OMG THAT'S JUST SICK! It was like psychic linking rings! The ring, FLOATED! And them linked themselves together!! Same thing when they separate, THEY FLOATED APART!!! I've never seen anything like it, BRILLIANT!!!
I was really surprised when he did Rene Lavand's cups and balls routine. Rene Lavand was a magician who had only one hand. Still, his magic is mindblowing and legendary. Lu Chen did the same thing, he performed Lavand's routine with only one hand. One cup, three balls. Two goes in, one goes into the pocket. THREE BALLS ARE IN THE CUP. What the?! He repeated it many times while he talked about dreams, inspiration etc. And I got fooled at the end, where he did the same thing, except for THE CUP WAS EMPTY!!! Awesome kicker!!! An inspiring performance. I have small hands, Lavand had only one. Who am I to complaint?
Then he did the Human Block Piece thingy. Um this one is nice, but rather boring compared to the others. Still I have no idea how he did it. Girls goes into a frame. She was then covered with tiles. And when he took the tiles away, the girl was gone!!!! But the head was still there!!! And after that THERE WAS NO HEAD AT ALL!!! Then she reappeared. The prestige.
He performed close-up as well. It was what I anticipated the most! He did what I think is his signature card effect. I've seen it on tv before, the 1-1o card cut. He got a specator to shuffle the deck and name any of the four suits in the deck. He then cut the deck into ten separate piles in ten seconds. Oh so...? OH HELL. The first pile had 1 card, the second pile had 2, and so on!!! All the top cards happened to be ace to ten of hearts! Then he produced the J, Q, and K of hearts with style and finesse. Still, he messed up before that. He repeated the ten cuts like 3 or 4 times. He even peaked at the cards, and arranged them a little bit. I was disappointed of course. The only card effect in his 90 minutes show. And he made a boo boo. I think there was an error in the deck setup. Still, I have no idea how was that done. I do have a theory though. (Hint : Stripper + Svengali?)
Then he made a little girl float. Gave a him tigger and a picture as a present. Sweet. It was flawless!
He borrowed 3 rings from the audience. And FREAKING LINKED THE TOGETHER. Examined by the spectators themselves, yes it was their rings. HOW COULD IT BE?! Then he separated them with magic. *flipped out*
His prediction was TOTALLY AWESOME. A guy from the audience was chosen and was said to be Lu Chen's lover in their past lives! Haha! How interesting!!! The guy was hillarious and was enjoying the crowd. Lu Chen then asked him what was her birthday in his past live. (She was a girl then). He asked him where did they went together, what they ate, what did they did in hotel room alone. Haha the atmosphere was amazing. Everyone was super enjoying it. At in the end, the board that had been hanging there untouched the whole time revealed exactly what had the guy said!!!! OMG!!! Pure magic!!!
And he wowed everyone with his Teleport Escape. His hands were tied up with metal chains. He got into the box. Attempting to escape. There was large spikes that were to be released from above and crush him. Everyone counted. 3!!!!! 2!!!!! Lu Chen shouted '等一下!!!!' BAM. Too late. The spike penetrated the box. There was silence. OUT OF NOWHERE, THERE HE WAS STANDING ON THE PLATFORM IN THE AUDIENCES!!!!!! Amazing amazing!!!!!
He ended the show with Water to Snow. Hm. I think it was a weak ending, should've picked something that ends with a SCHBOOM!!! He told a story about African kids wanting to see snow. And he took a tissue paper, cut it into the shape of a snowflake. He picked up a glass of water, had a sip, and dipped the tissue into the water. He poured everything into this hand and with a hard squeeze. THERE WAS SNOW. SNOW EVERYWHERE. A beautiful sight.
The end. Finally.
