This first team of challengers on Wizard Wars includes Joel Meyes, a magician from St. Louis, Missouri. He is joined by Nathan Kranzo, a comedian magician from Michigan.
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They square off against California-based magicians Chris Oberle, a close-up magician and Alex Ramone, large-illusion magician and host Ellen Fox reveals tonight’s three everyday objects for round one: a guitar, jumbo-sized dominoes and a tutu.
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Alex and Chris take the stage and promise the audience they intend to saw a magician in half - with a tutu, which they both impressively pull off.
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Next, Alex pulls out a full sized guitar from an impossibly small briefcase. Chris then makes dominoes appear from a single piece of paper, pouring them into a bowl. An audience member then picks a domino at random from the bowl and writes her name on the back of the domino.
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The volunteer comes on stage and shakes the guitar, and lo and behold: it's her signed domino. Not only that, Alex then reveals, it's not a "real" guitar after all: the sound hole is actually just a black sticker and it's a solid sealed guitar body!
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The Judges thought the tutus were a bit neglected, but otherwise loved the rest of their routine.
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Once it’s their turn to take the stage, Nathan and Joel talk about their dreams of becoming musicians. Joel pours a tray of dominoes into a paper bag to select one at random, but pulls out a guitar pick instead. He then dumps the bag to reveal they've all been turned into guitar picks: except for a double 2 domino, or a two-two (tutu) - get it?
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Nathan pulls out a tutu from under the table. Then, Nathan eats the tutu while Joel holds up a screen in front of him, and in just seconds, Nathan swallows, Joel drops the screen and Nathan is wearing the tutu.
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Keeping the pick in full view, the magicians place a guitar pick that Penn signed into the strings of the guitar. They slam the guitar case shut and the guitar vanishes, replaced with a pile of dominoes. A stagehand hands Penn and Teller a guitar case the magicians haven't touched and inside is the guitar with the signed guitar pick in the strings. In a close call, Nathan and Joel make it to round two to face the Wizard Team.
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It’s Shimshi and Gregory who will face off against the challengers in the Wizard War. Their 1970's-themed round two objects include a bean bag chair, fuzzy dice, 8-track tapes, and a leisure suit.
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In the final round, Nathan and Joel take the stage first. Their stand out trick wows the crowd when they turn the stuffing inside the bean bag chair into candy!
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Shimshi and Gregory create a makeshift portal that magically changes the color of Shimshi’s shirt when he walks through it so that he’ll match Gregory’s 70’s inspired leisure suit.
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Despite the chemistry that Nathan and Joel brought to the stage, it's the chic seventies styling along with a consistent theme that the Judges deem worthy of the win. No $10,000 cash for Nathan and Joel, but a great night of fun magic for all.
