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The event was the first of seven annual broadcasts, [14] which eventually brought Henning seven [15] Emmy Award nominations, including two back-to-back in 1976 and 1977 for World of Magic. In December 1976, Doug Henning's World of Magic II aired, again live and with only two commercial breaks
Doug Henning's World of Magic is a series of seven annual prime-time television specials starring magician Doug Henning that aired from 1975 to 1982. The first special aired live on NBC Friday, December 26, 1975. [1] Bill Cosby [2] was the show's special guest, along with Gene Kelly (who introduced the special) and musical guest Lori Lieberman.
The museum has thousands of files on everyone from Doug Henning to Donna Delberts, 'the world's only lady fire eater', who turned out to be an AWOL American GI and a man." [4] Specifically, the museum includes 2,009 heralds, handbills, and window cards, 587 show-bills, and over 5,000 programs, 10,000 books, 24,000 magazines, and 46,000 photos.
The Magic Show is a one-act musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Bob Randall.It starred magician Doug Henning.Produced by Edgar Lansbury, Joseph Beruh, and Ivan Reitman, it opened on Broadway on May 28, 1974 at the Cort Theatre in Manhattan, and ran for 1,920 performances, closing on December 31, 1978.
Origami was first performed by Canadian magician Doug Henning in 1986. At that time, designer Jim Steinmeyer was employed as a magic consultant by Henning. In the original presentation, Henning displays a small box, 12 inches square and decorated with Japanese-style prints, on top of a thin table.
During the production number "Put a Little Magic in Your Life", Henning mounted a white horse and rode it into a gigantic box, which was then closed and hoisted into the air above the stage. In midair, the box suddenly broke open, turning out to be empty. A moment later, Henning appeared at the opposite edge of the stage, still mounted on a horse.
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Stirring the water with his hand, the water turns murky or black. The colored sands are then poured into the bowl and stirred by hand. With a flourish, the magician reaches into the bowl to pull out each color of sand, separate and unmixed. With a last stir, the water turns clear again, with a few stray grains of sand left in it.