Following in Father's Footsteps
The performance mantle has, however been passed on to their son Andrew Van Buren, a multi-talented performer who keeps the Van Buren flag flying high over entertainment venues all over the world with his illusion spectaculars.
A more recent closing of the circle was when Andrew devised and presented the show Abracadabra Magic Around the World in Blackpool Tower Circus. The illusion show featured many of his father's magic effects and illusions. A number of the new effects were created by Fred purely for this production. The show ran from April until November 2007 and proved to be a great success with a cast of 24 international circus performers presenting a show that took in the themes of Great Britain, Germany, Arabia, America, Vienna, China, Hungary—with a tribute to escapologist Harry Houdini—and finally from the Blackpool Tower to the Eiffel Tower for a rousing French finale. This brought back the memories of Van Buren's childhood visiting the Tower Circus and proved to be a great showcase for the Van Buren illusions.
Andrew Van Buren More recently concentrates much of his time working on cruise liners & in the Middle East, 2009 was spent during the summer performing in the House of Illusions Spiegeltent show in Dubai.
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