Temple Isaiah of Newport Beach will host A Passover Sedar/dinner and telling the story of Passover through an inspiring performance of magic, illusion, and escape. The Ten Plagues will magically be recreated through the eyes of a modern day magician Curtis Lovell II on April 8, 2009.
The 35-year-old synagogue, Temple Isaiah, founded by holocaust survivors, Felix and Flory VanBeek, will continue thousands of years of tradition with their Seder dinner and ceremony. The Seder will feature a modern day magic show recreating the plagues casted upon Egypt. Rabbie Marc Rubenstein stated that “ I always wanted to see The Ten Plagues play-out in a modern day setting, if you miss this you will regret it for years to come.”
To help to create the show Temple Isaiah has enlisted the services of television magician and escape artist Curtis Lovell II. He has been buried alive, shackled and tossed into the Singapore River, locked in a box of water, cut Paris Hilton in half and called psychic John Edwards out on his bluff . Lovell has recently appeared on Masters of Illusions television program on MyNetwork-TV. “When I was approached with this project my mind immediately went thousands of different directions on how to recreate these plagues.” Lovell stated.
