Not every Fourth of July activity involves picnics, pyrotechnics and the great outdoors.
Instead of flag waving, illusionist Bob Lawson will leave his audience scratching their heads and wondering “how did he do that?” when he presents his award-winning show, Mind Games, at The Colonnade on Saturday.
For more than 25 years, audiences have been awed and amazed by Lawson’s extrasensory skills and have made Mind Games one of the nation’s highest rated cabaret acts.
Lora Ogden, theater coordinator at The Colonnade, said this 90 minute show is “definitely something different” for the Catoosa County theater.
“He contacted us,” she said. “He was visiting friends in the Chattanooga area and they told him what a good facility we have.”
A two-time winner of the New York Cabaret Society Award for Best Variety Act of The Year, Lawson contributed many of his original thoughts and ideas to the hit CBS show “The Mentalist” and is a professional member of the Psychic Entertainers Association.
When asked what to expect during his performance, Lawson said, “The impossible.”
Lawson refers to himself as an illusionist, rather than a psychic, and says there is nothing supernatural about his show and he claims everything he does is within the given powers of any individual.
IF YOU GOWhat: Bob Lawson’s Mind Games, an interactive mind reading cabaret show.Where: The Colonnade, on the Benton Place Campus off Battlefield Parkway in Ringgold.When: Saturday, July 3. The show begins at 7 p.m. and lasts about 90 minutes.Cost: Tickets are $15 general admission, $13 seniors/students and $10 groups of 15 or more.For more information contact The Colonnade here or call (706) 935-9000
“There are no mirrors, no smoke, no one planted in the audience,” he said.
During his performance, Lawson said he calls on volunteers to allow him to “read their minds.”
“I won’t embarrass them,” he said.
Mind Games has been presented on national television broadcasts, in theaters and clubs and is a part of the regular entertainment presented on Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, Princess and Holland American cruises.
Volunteers from the audience will be included in the mind reading show, with amazing – or at least unusual – results, Ogden said. Since the program should be over before sunset, those who witness Mind Games should have plenty of time to see July 4th fireworks displays, she said.