The message that runs through the show, which has brought it close to three million tickets sold, is irrevocable: don't let anyone tell you that you can't make your dreams come true. Nothing is impossible. And perhaps for this reason, and because he has never put a limit to his dreams, Antonio Díaz, better known as El Mago Pop (Badia del Vallès, 1986), today finally premieres his magic on Broadway. A goal that he has cherished for a long time and that happened in the middle of a pandemic that made it even more complicated. Getting dates in a city that has had its shutters down due to covid more than any other has been almost another trick, but finally today, after a few days of previews, El Mago Pop opens its illusions at the Ethel Theater Barrymore, more than a thousand locations in the heart of Broadway, next to Times Square, where you can see giant screens announcing the "master of the impossible".
For now, it will mainly be a dream come true, because it will be a shorter landing than initially expected, since two years ago Antonio Díaz ventured an entire season in the heart of New York. For lack of more dates, it will be on its debut until the 27th, almost every day with a double function. Then, in May, he will inaugurate a season in his own theater, the second he acquires after Barcelona's Victòria del Paral·lel, in Branson, Missouri, in a state in the middle of the country and in a city that has become a kind of of Las Vegas for family leisure, with half a hundred theaters and millions of annual visitors. A theater that was a former convention center and has no less than 2,800 seats, where it will hold seasons that will alternate with the Spanish ones.
In an appearance a few days ago on NBC, one of the major television channels in the United States, to promote his magic by teleporting pedestrians from Rockefeller Center, Díaz said he was "really excited, being on Broadway is my dream and very few magicians there they've done their shows, that's why it's a privilege to be one of them". The illusionist remembers that since David Copperfield in the nineties, magic has not had great successes on Broadway. "It seems that magic has not quite found its place, it competes with giant franchises, from The Lion King to Hamilton. But magic can enter it, it has a transversal audience and connects with emotion and illusion", says the creator, to whom his hometown dedicated a tribute at the beginning of the year by renaming the municipal auditorium the his name A town where, as a child, as he jokes in a video of his show, he spent "all day watching videos of the magic of this Chesterfield".
Today, at the premiere at the Barrymore theater, Díaz will have to demonstrate the effectiveness of his unstoppable rhythm, without a single second to breathe, all show. It is clear that in the United States he is less known and that the first 15 minutes he has to convince the public that he did not make a mistake from the start. It will be the beginning of an American adventure that a few years ago seemed like a pipe dream. In the video of his show Díaz recalls that according to a NASA study it is impossible for bees to fly. Small wings big body But no one has told them they can't. And they do. And today it is Barcelona that arrives on Broadway.
