The message that runs through the show that has made it close to three million tickets sold is unappealable: don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t achieve your dreams. Nothing is impossible. And perhaps for this reason, and because his dreams have never been limited, Antonio Díaz, better known as El Mago Pop (Badia del Vallès, 1986), finally opens his magic on Broadway this Sunday. A goal that he has long cherished and for which he went through a pandemic that made it even more complicated. Getting dates in a city that has had its blinds lowered by the covid more than any other has been almost another trick, but finally this August 20, after a few days of previous performances, El Mago Pop premieres its illusions at the Ethel Barrymore theater, more than a thousand locations in the heart of Broadway, next to Times Square, on whose giant screens the “master of the impossible” is advertised.
For now it will be above all fulfilling a dream because it will be a short landing, less than initially expected, when two years ago Antonio Díaz ventured an entire season in the heart of New York. Due to the lack of more dates, he will be in his debut until the 27th, almost every day with a double feature. Then, in May, he will inaugurate his own theater, the second he has acquired after the Victòria del Paral·lel in Barcelona, ??in Branson, Missouri, in a state that is in the heart of the country and in a city that has become a sort of Las Vegas of family leisure with fifty theaters and millions of annual visitors. A theater that was an old convention center and has no less than 2,800 seats and in which he will do seasons that will alternate with the Spanish ones.
In an appearance a few days ago on NBC, one of the great American television channels, to promote his magic by teleporting passers-by from Rockefeller Center, Díaz assured that he was “really excited, being on Broadway is my dream and very few magicians have done their shows there, so it’s a privilege to be one of them.” The illusionist remembers that since David Copperfield in the nineties, magic has not had great success on Broadway. “It seems that the magic does not quite find its place there competing with giant franchises, from The Lion King to Hamilton. But magic can be put there, it has a cross-sectional audience and connects with emotion and illusion, ”says the creator, to whom his hometown dedicated a tribute at the beginning of the year, renaming the municipal auditorium with his name. . A town where as a child, as he jokes in a video of his show, he spent “all day watching magic videos from that Chesterfield.”
Today at the premiere at the Barrymore Díaz theater, he will have to demonstrate the effectiveness of his unstoppable rhythm, without giving respite for a single second, all show. He is clear that in the US he is less known and that he has to convince the public in the first 15 minutes that he has not made the wrong entrance. It will be the beginning of an American adventure that a few years ago seemed like a chimera. In the video of the show, Díaz recalls that according to a NASA study it is impossible for bumblebees to fly. small wings Big body. But no one has told them they couldn’t. And they do. And today it is Barcelona that reaches Broadway.
