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Derek DelGaudio: Sleight Of Mind

Magician Derek DelGaudio explains pairing storytelling with magic tricks in his off-Broadway show In & Of Itself.
Magician Derek DelGaudio appears on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

When the acclaimed magician and performer Derek DelGaudio walked into a magic shop for the first time, he wasn't trying to learn any tricks. He was just a twelve-year-old who wanted to play a prank on his mom.

"I thought that was gonna be

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