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l CAIRNS CBD

| Isabella Guzman Gonzalez

CELEBRATING 10 years of magic, renowned illusionist and magician Cosentino is coming to Cairns with a 90-minute spectacular production – Decennium the Greatest Hits tonight.

The Australia’s Got Talent (AGT) alumnus is bringing his tour Decennium the Greatest Hits to the Cairns Arts Performance Centre today at 7.30 pm.

The Victorian illusionist said he was excited to take his tour regionally and celebrate 10 years of hard work.

“It’s not a national tour if you don’t take it regional,” he said.

“Cairns is beautiful. I love the people. I love the weather and audiences in Cairns are so appreciative. They’re thankful that you’re coming and bringing a world-class show,” he said.

“Decennium is the best of my best, so it’s a celebration of my life in magic over the last 10 years, which is when most people got introduced to me on AGT.

“This tour is taking parts from my five prime-time television specials for Network 7, my international TV series for Sony International Pictures, and national and international touring shows.

“We’re taking all that material and jam-packing it in a 90-minute spectacular.”

Written, produced and chore- ographed by Cosentino, Decennium will bring death-defying escapes, mind-boggling illusions and street magic that will captivate fans.

“My brand-new stage spectacular ‘Decennium’ is a celebration of everything I have achieved over the last decade,” Cosentino said.

“All of the pieces in this show have been chosen for a reason, as they represent a significant time and place within my career.

“This tour is kudos to myself and my team that we’re still in the game 10 years later because I think of the hard work and grassroots work that I did many moons ago, really putting it all on the line.”

Cosentino told his Cairns fans to “expect the unexpected” from this show.

“There’s everything, levitations, transpositions, I read people’s minds, escapes, there’s a moment where my head is inside a box with 15 kitchen knives dangling above my head, and I have to pick the locks and wiggle out,” he said.

“All these amazing things you can only see in film, but you get to see live on stage.

“It’s romantic, it’s sexy at times, it’s dramatic, it’s unlike anything else you’ve ever seen, and I say it with confidence.”

To buy tickets to tonight’s show at CPAC, visit www.cosentino.com.au