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Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants tickets are now available online to be bought or sold at Stubhub.com. Past a certain age, we stop believing in magic. Not just the wonders of the imagination that children are privy to, but even the illusions crafted by professional magicians. It all falls into the realm of the unreal, and, while we follow pursuits in the adult world with passion, magic is quietly ignored to death. Ricky Jay is one of the art form’s greatest defenders, preservers and practitioners. His talent on stage—both for his skill and humor—has earned him a reputation for being a master deceiver. He’s crossed over into the film world as well, becoming an active consultant on numerous productions involving magic and its history. In time, he met director and writer David Mamet, whose work seems obsessed with swindlers, criminals and Hollywood filmmakers (and often all three at once). Jay has appeared in many of Mamet’s own films, proving himself as an actor and comedian time and time again. This guide briefly examines some of the films Jay has appeared in, whether he had a small cameo role or played a major character. Though he doesn’t play an actual character in Werner Herzog’s Incident at Loch Ness, the fact that he appears in the film seems almost too perfect. The mockumentary pokes fun at Werner Herzog, famous for his documentaries and gloriously ambitious filmmaking. It’s about his quest to document the myths around the Loch Ness monster, and becomes a survival tale when he and his crew are stranded in the lake. Jay appears in the beginning, before they even leave to begin filming, during a dinner party at Herzog’s house (other actors, including Jeff Goldblum and Crispin Glover also make brief appearances). Jay performs some magic tricks, but later on the film the audience will have a trick played on them when they find out some of the events that are staged to look like real Nessie footage are, in fact, faked. Don’t pass up the opportunity to see him live at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles from July 9 to Aug. 26, 2008. Get Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants tickets now. Written by Andrew Good and sponsored by StubHub.com. StubHub sells sports tickets, concert tickets, theater tickets and more to just about any event in the world. Don’t miss Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants at Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants tickets.
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