Viva Las Vegas as Keith Barry moves for good to magic city
magician and hypnotist Keith Barry is to make a permanent move Stateside after being invited back to perform his Las Vegas show in Planet Hollywood for an unlimited run.
The popular Waterford man will return to the Nevada state next summer and plans to stay there alone for the rest of 2009 before wife Mairead and his family join him on a long-term basis.
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According to Keith: "The plan eventually is to move out there permanently but I'm going to move out there for four or five months' first and test the water.
"My family will come out and join me for some of it; we're like a nomadic tribe at this point, we're always travelling around. I don't have a house out there yet as I stayed in the hotel the last time but that's all in the pipes down the line," he added.
The dad of one admits he will have to be careful to keep himself in check when he gets to the gambling resort. "It is a crazy place," he told the Herald. "I've been out there at least 20 times now so I've got all the drinking and partying out of my system.
"I generally just go back up to my room and watch a movie after the shows. It would be too easy to get sucked into it and staying out all night partying in the casinos because you literally never know whether it's night or day."
Before then Keith will take off to LA next month where he will record his new show for the Discovery channel. The programme will see the mind illusionist take a dramatic change in direction as he airs his more serious side.
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"It was all my idea," he said. "It'll still be entertainment but it's basically going to explain how the brain works and the science and psychology behind what I do.
The Irish magician last month won the Critics' Choice Award for Best Magician at The Las Vegas Review Journal's Best of Las Vegas Awards scooping the prestigious title over the likes' of David Copperfield, Penn and Teller and Criss Angel.
- Lorna Nolan
