![]() ![]() "The Houdini Box" runs Tuesday to March 4 at the Mercury Theater, then March 14-25 at North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie chicagochildrenstheatre. ![]() Now he finally sees one made from his own ideas. Selznick has seen a lot of shows in Chicago over the years. A boy who loves magic tricks tries to unlock the secret to Houdinis Box. He has long friendships with Leslie Buxbaum Danzig and Adrian Danzig of 500 Clown, the company that helped introduce Selznick to Russell. Amazing illustrated piece by Brian Selznick and a wonderful biography-fiction piece. It turns out that the world of Chicago theater is not unfamiliar to Selznick. Houdini gives Victor a mysterious locked box. "Everything is about the story I am trying to tell." The Houdini Box Publisher: ATHENEUM BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS Date of Addition: 11/30/13 Copyrighted By: Brian Selznick Selznick Adult content: No. When he has the chance to meet his hero, Victor begs Houdini to share the tricks of his trade. ![]() Mark Messing wrote the music which is handled by two musicians who. "Besides knowing that I'm not going to curse and that there will be no sex, I'm really not thinking about kids when I write," he said. This is a one hour musical based on the book by Brian Selznick and written by Hannah Kohl. "I must have read this book aloud, like, 5,000 times," he said. The strength of this reissue of Brian Selznicks first book (with new notes about Houdini, magic, and the creation of the book) is the illustrations. Selznick has taken it to a lot of classrooms. The book has proved popular over the years at one point, pretty much every schoolkid in Texas was reading it. In "The Houdini Box," a kid gets to meet the great escapologist (kids invariably do remarkable things in the Selznick oeuvre). ![]()
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