The Asbury Park Press (NJ) heaps well-deserved praise on Inside Magic favorite The Spencers.

The audience typically raises the roof when magician Kevin Spencer walks through a wall.

"That is usually the showstopper," he said. "It's a favorite. We bring someone up from the audience to make sure that I really did it."

The Spencers: Theatre of Illusion, which stops Saturday at the Count Basie Theatre, features the husband-and-wife team of Kevin and Cindy Spencer. The duo leads the second-largest illusion company in America (behind David Copperfield's organization), and delivers an eclectic brand of prestidigitation.

The Spencers' show shifts from the dramatic to the lighthearted to the emotional.

"We try to bring it all," Kevin Spencer said. "We want the audience to feel what we do. What we're about is edge of your seat entertainment."

Kevin and Cindy Spencer view their approach to Magic as uniquely tied to the proud history of our art.

Spencer and his wife, who appears for parts of the show and works behind the scenes during the rest of the production, are old-school magicians unlike David Blaine and Criss Angel, who deliver epic tricks such as floating between buildings.

"We're turning into a rare breed," Spencer said. "The younger generation is limited to people like David Blaine and Criss Angel. They're not as familiar with our type of illusion. But when families do come out, they can't believe what they've been missing."

After witnessing magician Doug Henning's '70s television specials, Kevin Spencer, who grew up in Western Indiana, was hooked.

"I knew from when I was a child that magic was for me," he said. "There was never a doubt about it."

Visit The Spencers' Home Page here.

Be sure to read our review of their DVD here.