I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

I'm the luckiest man in the world - performing 500 shows a year and loving what I do - illusion IS my day to day life.

But Vegas is really my first home.

I fell in love with magic acts and bridged into that.

[Producers] took me to Chicago at 18 to star in a show that ran for almost a year. And that's when my parents said, "Okay, I guess you can quit Fordham." Of course, when that show closed, as you can imagine, I came to New York and starved for years, but it's never an easy road.

I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.

A few years later, when I was still going to these meetings, I was also "second-acting" every Broadway show [walking in with the crowd after intermission]. I snuck in to see Grease with John Travolta in kind of a secondary part and Adrienne Barbeau playing Rizzo, into Pippin, hung out with Ben Vereen and Bob Fosse. It was an amazing time for a teenager.