Mauri MaGoo is a polished professional magician here in Cuenca.  We first saw him last October in a show with four other local magicians. Tonight’s show was advertised as being just him, but there were actually several others, plus a ventriloquist as Emcee.  Unfortunately, the show involved a lot of very fast Spanish, very little of which I was able to understand.  Also, as seems typical in Ecuador, the speakers were set to full volume, which created massive distortion — seems every speaker in town is set to maximum volume whenever on…

The show was heavily oriented around the young, with audience kids brought up to participate in many of the tricks.  The magic varied from normal slight of hand, through some card tricks (that I now know how to do, after our trip to Harry Potter World in April!), to jaw-dropping performances.  Most of the latter were by Mauri MaGoo himself (in the lower right image above).