Wintergarten Dreams
I’ve never actually made a bucket list. But one thing that would be on it if I had one would have been to perform at The Wintergarten Varieté in Berlin as their magic act. And it kept coming up: after seeing my show Norvil & Josephine, people kept telling me “Oh the Germans would love this act!” I could only hope someday they would.
Famous are the rumours of how ravenous the Germans are for cabaret and variety: a fantasy world full of extravagant characters, impossible spectacles and tantalising stories that live on long after the curtain has dropped.
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