FOR MY LAST TRICK
Casting for the NYC premier reading of For My Last TrickWritten by Jordan Baker, this new play is a period drama about the final years in the life of Harry Houdini, aiming to perform by October 2026. This public reading will be used to gauge an audience interest, producer interest, and make future edits to the script.
“Harry Houdini will be dead by Halloween.” It’s the 1920’s and humanity has made its biggest breakthrough. The ability to communicate with the dead. Mediums and fortune tellers have used seances to finally bridge the gap to the afterlife and prove ghosts are real! But one man is not impressed. Magician and Escape Artist, Harry Houdini. When Houdini is invited to a seance by his best friend, Sherlock Holmes writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, he is not amazed. Instead, he’s angry. What everyone else sees as a healing experience that's connecting them to their lost loved ones, he sees a sophisticated hoax which is extorting grieving people for money.
Harry sets out on his own “witch hunt” to expose these mediums with his brother, Theo. But everything changes when Harry has a “curse" put on him by the mediums, who all say he’s gonna die by Halloween… and on Halloween of 1926, Houdini dies of mysterious causes. Theo and Harry’s widow, Bess, are left to pick up the pieces and figure out, how did this happen? Who was responsible? And will Harry Houdini escape death and return from the grave?
"For My Last Trick" is a thrilling and thought provoking piece that tackles grief, belief, faith, and fame. Using authentic Harry Houdini magic tricks, spooky seances, and amazing dialogue. Do you believe in Magic?”
You can find details on how to submit for casting at Playbill or Backstage. Good luck!
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