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Michael Grandinetti: Personal Space Featured in Pittsburgh Mag

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Each month the magazine features a former or current Pittsburgh, Pennsylvaniaresident with unique accomplishments in one of their most memorable city spots. This month they chose Michael, who, although only 25, has spent the past twenty years striving to break new ground in the world of illusion.

The space itself even has a bit of magic to it – magically transforming from the family garage to a rehearsal area complete with mirrors and historical store room.

Growing up in Pittsburgh, Michael spent every waking moment in this area studying, rehearsing, and designing new illusions for his shows ranging from small sleight of hand effects to large scale illusions such as an appearing motorcycle and ?The Tower of Flaming Spikes?, which led to his appearance on NBC?s ?The World?s Most Dangerous Magic II? television special. As a matter of fact, it was in this area that Michael and his crew had a sudden 11:30pm meeting when they first found out they were accepted onto the NBC show.

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Check Out This Month’s Issue

Each month the magazine features a former or current Pittsburgh, Pennsylvaniaresident with unique accomplishments in one of their most memorable city spots. This month they chose Michael, who, although only 25, has spent the past twenty years striving to break new ground in the world of illusion.

The space itself even has a bit of magic to it – magically transforming from the family garage to a rehearsal area complete with mirrors and historical store room.

Growing up in Pittsburgh, Michael spent every waking moment in this area studying, rehearsing, and designing new illusions for his shows ranging from small sleight of hand effects to large scale illusions such as an appearing motorcycle and ?The Tower of Flaming Spikes?, which led to his appearance on NBC?s ?The World?s Most Dangerous Magic II? television special. As a matter of fact, it was in this area that Michael and his crew had a sudden 11:30pm meeting when they first found out they were accepted onto the NBC show.

?As our illusions and shows grew, we had to find larger rehearsal halls and stages,? Michael said. ?But this area always remained our meeting room and home base.?

In addition, the area contained Michael?s collection of over five hundred videos of magic from around the world, illusion books dating back hundreds of years, and memorabilia from masters of magic including Harry Houdini and Doug Henning. It also contained souvenirs from Grandinetti?s own shows, including a 9-foot high painting of the illusionist escaping from fire used on the ?Dangerous Magic? set. As he continues to push forward in his career, Michael Grandinetti has never forgotten where he comes from.

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