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Ben Robinson specializes in original close-up magic for small groups at corporate and private affairs. Above and below he is seen entertaining the executives of JP Morgan Chase in February 2006 in Manhattan.

Surrounded, standing or sitting at tables, he's performed at the world's most famous hotels and black-tie events from Monte Carlo to New York. As a Fortune 500 performer, he has entertained everyone from Frank Sinatra to Snowbird owner Richard D. Bass.

His stage shows have appealed to corporate and theatre audiences. He is widely known for his unique ability to entertain adults and children at the same time.

He is frequently found performing in concert with name bands. This has proved to be a unique mix, always sure to stand an audience on its ear! After witnessing his wonders, music legend Richie Havens (seen at right with the magician after his performance) gave Ben a big hug for his latest original illusion where Ben makes rings apear on all of his fingers!

Ben Robinson is known for his unique ability to mix sales and sorcery, often being called upon to introduce new products or add creative conjuring to clients' message. On Valentine's Day he's appeared at the Center for Special Studies at NY Hopsital for some of the oldest AIDS patients, and in 27 out of 30 cases Ben was told by attending physicians that his magic reversed clinical depression!

Ben Robinson regularly performs on TV, stage and close-up at premier resorts, trade shows, company events and celebrations. He has represented American Express Travelers Cheques and Levis 501 jeans on TV.

Ben Robinson can perform magic anywhere, with anything, and has demonstrated this unique ability for 30 years. He has entertained at both the Harrison Conference Center in Glen Cove, NY and at the Holiday Organization golf clubs for 15 years consecutively. He has appeared for company celebrations for Computer Associates Inc. and the Japanese Travel Bureau more than 20 times each.

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Whether entertaining chairmen or children, members of the 1989 American Everest Team at the Base Camp of Mt. Everest, or nightlife crowds in Amsterdam, Robinson is one-of-a-kind.

Ben Robinson does magic every day. While buying a newspaper or standing in line for a movie he enlivens each day with the unexpected. Yearly he performs several- hundred formally booked shows around the world.

The general reaction is expressed by radio DJ Ken Schneidman who commented after Robinson's appearance in Woodstock, NY: "You were as talented as we had heard. Everybody loved having you here."

At a company event for JP Morgan Chase (seen above) the review was that the guests "adored" the magician.

10-04-01 NYPD,Command Center, New York City, 5AM. In the aftermath of September 11th, Ben Robinson was asked by the NYPD to give an indoor street-style performance while helping serve breakfast to NYPD, FBI, EMT and others at a command center. For the full story, click here.

Ben Robinson is also a magician who has instituted many "firsts" in the ancient Art of Magic! To read about these unusual achievements, click here.

MAGIC: OUT OF ORDER

Since 1984, Ben Robinson's OUT OF ORDER magic has performed from Off-Broadway and New York nightclubs to the town square of Namche Bazar at 11,000 feet in the Nepalese Himalaya. He has been called Harold Lloyd-like and "the Clark Kent of magic." Clad in saddle shoes, suspenders and a bow tie, this is not strictly a magic show, but a humorous interpretation of trying to do a magic show. Robinson gets tangled with surreal obstacles as his hand lights on fire unexpectedly, a silk scarf winds up in a volunteer's pants zipper, and a skewer through his tongue disables his ability to speak on the phone.

Photo (C)2000 Jim Moore

This theatrical creation has the distinction of being fully produced as a one-man show several times; most notably in 1988, by Broadway and visionary avant garde producer Lyn Austin and her Music-Theatre Group at their summer home in Stockbridge, MA.

The Hartford Courant drama critic wrote "Ben Robinson's performance of silent, surreal, humorous illusions is a MUST see!" The Boston Globe called Robinson "a charmer." Whether entertaining a corporate audience at a dinner party or being Magician- in-Residence at the US premier ski and summer resort, Snowbird, Robinson's comedic magic has appealed to audiences of all ages the world over.

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MR. MUTILATION
Created in dark rock 'n roll nightclubs from Seattle to New York and Amsterdam, Ben Robinson's "Mr. Mutilation" character first saw daylight as host, star, director and writer of the Kennywood Amusement Park's 1998 Centennial Midway (PA). Appearing along with Elastogirl, Zamora the Incredible Ape Girl, Mary Childs - the Headless Women, and Guinness World Champions: Flexx - The Rubber Boy and David "Cannonball" Smith (distance champion human cannonball), Mr. Mutilation hit the stage 1,750 times in 5 months for which Ben Robinson achieved a world record.

"Mr. Mutilation" is touted as the magic act that visually answers the burning question: how do ya bury a knife in your arm, push a skewer through your tongue, and chop your hand clean off? Mr. Mutilation is the wacky guy in the black-spangled vest and 19th-century ring master's flared pants, who has made 2.7 million people laugh at his version of "Madame Twisto and the Blade Box" and gasp at his masterpiece of cutting his arm into three pieces. Producer Paul Osborne wrote, "Robinson has a bizarre love of the past, and a performance art style of the future." Billboard's Amusement Business magazine raved "Robinson is a Master Magician...Ape Girl and Bullet Boy a Hit at Kennywood." Carl Hughs, Chairman of the Board of Kennywood, America's Premiere Amusement Park wrrote, "Ben Robinson is a natural born leader. Superb work."

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On DVD, he stars in the "Death by Magic" episode of The Discovery and Learning Channel's Grand Illusions: The Story of Magic. He set the tone for the episode by stating frankly, "I'm going to go to that very frail line where life and death meet."

BULLET CATCHER
Ben Robinson has performed the only death-defying illusion feared by the great Houdini: catching a bullet fired from a high powered rifle, in his teeth!

Notably, in New York City on Halloween at Houdini's grave, on Maury Povich's 1997 Halloween TV special, at Niagara Falls with producer Bob Weill (who produced legendary bullet catcher Ted Annemann's attempts 52 years earlier) and while headlining at a casino where he was injured by flying glass. In December 2004, he appeared for the BBC in their series The History of Magic commenting on "dangerous magic" and telling of the other Robinson killed by the stunt.

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He is the author of the award-winning book Twelve Have Died--Bullet Catching, The Story & Secrets. With a foreword by Nightcourt TV star Harry Anderson, Robinson traced the history of "magic's darkest wonder." Ben Robinson is the only magician to have received both the Milbourne Christopher Foundation Award and Society of American Magicians Leslie R. Guest Award of Excellence for his literary efforts concerning the history of this 500 year-old stunt.

His writing about and performance of this dangerous illusion are the modern standard for this stunt.

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