has fashioned a stand-alone film version for Hulu, and to DelGaudio’s credit, the essence of his act remains intact, sparking awe, introspection and tears of connection, even when watched alone.
As they entered the Daryl Roth Theater, audiences were confronted by a wall of cards. “Identity is an illusion,” said the board, from which each person was instructed to select a label for the duration of the performance. From the moment he appears onstage, DelGaudio is building to the grand finale, in which those labels — “I Am …” a Hipster, a Ninja, a Joker, a Midnight Toker — come back into play, in which the mirror he held up to people on their way in becomes a spotlight of sorts.
Compared with Jay and other long-form illusionists, DelGaudio seems less confident onstage, which could simply be a disarming persona — part of the “wolf’s” routine, a con designed to appear innocuous — as he hesitantly opens the show with a story about “the Roulettista,” a man who gambled his life night after night with a loaded revolver. “I am the Roulettista,” DelGaudio tells the room, and in so doing, he positions the audience to watch everything that follows for clues to his meaning.
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