Steve Dacri now performing at Six Tables restaurant
By JAN HOGAN
VIEW STAFF WRITER
MARLENE KARAS/VIEWMaster magician Steve Dacri, right, performs "Impossible Magic" at Six Tables, a restaurant at 2110 N. Rampart Blvd.
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Now you see it. Now you don't. But at least he doesn't make your dinner disappear.
Steve Dacri performs "Impossible Magic" at 7 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays at Six Tables, 2110 N. Rampart Blvd., on the southeast corner of Lake Mead Boulevard.
"I tell them, 'My job is to fool you. Your job is to catch me,' " Dacri said.
After the dessert dishes have been removed, the magician steps up and begins his act. Dacri has hundreds of illusions in his repertoire and performs about two dozen while diners try to figure out how he does it.
Maybe the show should be called "Extreme Close Up Magic."
"Some of these people can reach over and touch the props," he said.
Dan and Lee Merrin of The Lakes dined at the restaurant on May 18. Besides raving about their dinner, the magic show "tickled your funny bones and teased our minds," Dan Merrin said. "We were right on top of him, and we still couldn't see how he did it."
Some tricks take years to perfect before Dacri will put them in his act, he said. Some tricks are old standards that the audience can predict. So Dacri takes it one step further and adds a twist to it.
Dacri has been performing for more than 35 years. He's been the opening act for headliners on the Strip and is in demand for conventions, corporate events and private parties. One millionaire flies Dacri over to Nice, France, each year to perform at one of his soirees.
The idea for the Six Tables dinner show came after the restaurant's owners, Roland and Gail Levi, met Dacri at Mount Charleston Lodge.
"I noticed his hands right away," Gail Levi said. "They were beautiful, magical."
Gail Levi is a magician in her own right. She appeared at the Sands in the 1960s and hired a young Lance Burton when she worked at Six Flags in St. Louis in the 1970s. She said that when she saw Dacri's hands, she suspected he was a magician.
Then Dacri and his wife, Jan, had dinner at Six Tables. In a "great minds think alike" moment, the couple approached him just as he was casing the restaurant as a possible site for his new act. The rest is history.
For his first night at the restaurant, Gail Levi showed off a few tricks of her own. But Dacri still amazed her.
"His hands are amazingly fast," she said.
Dacri performs on an open-ended contract, but said he plans to keep the weekend gig through September.
Tickets are $300 per person and include a six-course dinner with entree choices such as chateaubriand, duckling a l'orange and baby rack of lamb. The priced fixed meal is normally $90 per person. Wine, purchased separately, is available to enhance the meal.
"Impossible Magic" tickets can be purchased at www.vegas.com, by calling (866) 807-4697 or at www.stevedacri.com or the Six Tables, 256-2060.
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