(www.) What Is The Maze (.com)
Rachael Lundeen
Issue date: 2/11/10 Section: Entertainment
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"We're here to blow your mind," The Maze said before starting the show.
The performance started off big with The Maze bringing two girls on stage to assist him in his first trick of the evening. He did not talk for the next several minutes, instead concentrated on his downright strange trick, which kept the audience at the edge of their seats. After cutting a long piece of string from a spool, he had his assistant hold it while he proceeded to lick it. Slowly but surely, he began sucking the string into his mouth bit by bit and then swallowed all of it. With the crowd oooing and ahhing, it was not quite clear what he would do next.
After showing the audience his "six pack" abs, it became apparent that there was a small hole with something white sticking out of his stomach. Yes, you guessed it; it was the string he had just swallowed. He then pulled it out from underneath his skin. How it got there from his mouth, no one knows.
All of the following tricks were in a very similar fashion. He would do something, the audience would think it knew how he did it, then realize that could not have worked and be stumped yet again. This two-hour-long show had many ups and downs and unexpected turns. He kept the audience very involved in just about every one of his tricks. He brought students on stage as assistants and used their names in the ongoing storyboard by throwing the University of Wisconsin-Stout teddy bear (if you caught the UW-Stout bear you would have to add an idea to the story topic, then throw it to another member of the crowd so they could add something).
His final trick was having a student in the crowd hold onto a locked case from the beginning of the show to the end. At the end, the case was brought to the stage. The Maze opened the case and it was full of envelopes. One contained a CD. It turned out the CD was a recording of The Maze reciting the whole story the audience had created! Crazy.
The Maze attended the University of Texas in Austin a few years back and majored in psychology when he realized his passion for magic. Some of his tricks are actually based off of his thesis: "People selected chairs in a large audience based on their physiological characteristics." If you sit on the right, you use your right side of the brain more, meaning you are more intellectual when making decisions and are most likely a construction or engineer as your major. If you sit on the left you are more of an artist and are an art or interior student. He even went on to explain that he thinks if you choose to sit in the front of the audience you are often early, and are more of a go getter in life. If you choose to sit in the back, you may need to rethink your goals.
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