"Daddy you can't eat the little boy!"

While at Calico a father of a young child who watched our show related the following story to me.

To put the reader on the same page I will first relate the trick the child was talking about.

We have an illusion called Boy to Bunny (the props we use were once owned by Mark Wilson of 1950s-1970s TV fame..though he used them for a totally different illusion). In Boy to Bunny Victor Jr changes from a boy into a 23 pound Flemish Giant Bunny in a very funny and entertaining way. When we perform this illusion it is one of the most talked about after the show. Kids love the whole little boy to bunny thing and parents are baffled as to how it is done. Also the sight of a bunny that big is always a surprise. How real the illusion comes across is about to be illustrated:

The little girl in question was telling her dad that the little boy changing into a bunny was her favorite trick. Her dad commented on how big the bunny was and how good bunny might taste. The little girl looked up with concerned eyes and said, "Daddy, you can't eat the little boy." Her dad just then relaized that the illusion was real to the little girl and quickly said he was only teasing and that he would never eat that bunny because he knew the bunny was really the little boy. (Dodged a bullet.)

A couple of hours later a little boy noticed me standing next to a piano talking with one of the performers from another show...the piano was next to the restaurant door. As he and his mom came out of the resaurant the little boy looked up and me and asked me how Victor Jr could've fit into that rabbit costume. (Mind you the rabbit was real....albeit 23 pounds.)