Famous entertainer's magical hands cause audience to 'cop-a-field'

Reviewed by ANDREA ROBINSON
Collegian Staff Writer

Hot lesbian action, balls flying in people's faces and David Copperfield's nuts were the main attractions Tuesday night at The Bryce Jordan Center.

Well, maybe it wasn't really hot lesbian action. It was just two chicks wearing silk nighties, caressing and rolling around with each other on a bed.

Copperfield's mystical, magical show "U!" had something for everyone -- old and young, hot and horny.

Copperfield opened the first of his two shows by magically appearing onstage from what seemed like thin air. He then decided to stroll down into the audience of about 5,000 people to pick volunteers -- after all, the show was titled "U!"

After he found two suitable male volunteers to partake in his experiment, he brought them onstage, gave them some peanuts from his pocket, sat them in a chair and made them float into the air. But of course, no strings were attached to the sofa. Copperfield only uses "pure magic." (That's sarcasm.)

The enchanted evening continued when a giant fan was pulled onto the stage and Copperfield walked right into it, causing him to become nothing but pure matter floating around. Police sirens and searchlights flooded the arena. All of a sudden, Copperfield appeared in the 12th row. How he did it? No one knows ...

Francis Menotti (senior-public relations) enjoyed this illusion the most.

"This was the best by far. It's an ingenious piece of work," said Menotti, a member of Penn State Performing Magicians.

The rest of the show lasted about an hour and a half, with Copperfield succeeding in ooohing and ahhhing the audience. He even made the underwear of two young ladies switch places.

And once again -- because the show was titled "U!" -- he allowed the rest of the audience to experience his magical hands when he guessed where a picture of the moon would be in a deck of cards the audience received when they walked in.

But finally the show had to come to an end. Copperfield played a game of "Hot Potato" with members of the audience. He bounced 13 balls into the arena and whoever was holding a ball when the music stopped, would be a volunteer in his last trick.

The 13 people sat in chairs on the stage and Copperfield made them disappear.

One of the missing people, Ashley Torbert (junior-kinesiology), got to meet Copperfield after his act and even got an autographed photo.

"I thought it was awesome," Torbert said. "I got to hug David Copperfield."