Give me a sign,” screams Bess.Īll of a sudden, thunder strikes as she and the medium violently move around the stage. Although there is no evidence that any of the s’eacute ances were successful, the play is about a spiritual journey Bess and the medium experience on the 10th anniversary of Houdini’s death. In the CSUN production “Houdini’s Box,” Bess Houdini (Lauren Dacey) along with a spirit medium (Lindsay Sacks) successfully communicate with the deceased illusionist as the two flashback into past events that happened throughout his mysterious life including his career.Īfter Houdini died on Halloween 1926, his wife held yearly s’eacute ances with mediums because her husband told her that he would contact her from the afterlife. But, to his wife Wilhelmina Beatrice “Bess” Rahner Houdini, he was the love of her life. He escaped water torture cells and straightjackets in locked metal handcuffs and shackles. To the world, Harry Houdini was the greatest magic man that ever lived.

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