The couple will perform two shows at the 10,000 seat Sun Arena as stars of the Master of Illusion Live tour.
Jinger is a favorite daughter of Bridgeport, Connecticut and her parents still reside in the Nutmeg State.
The lithe and talented performer told the local media, “It's great to perform in front of people you know. It makes it special.”
"Special" is the perfect adjective for Kalin & Jinger's act and career. We had the distinct honor of sitting next to Jinger as a committee person for their Spirit Cabinet performance. As you loyal and disloyal readers of Inside Magic are aware, we will never expose the secrets of any magic effect unless it somehow makes us look good, smart or could serve up more internet hits to boost our ad revenue.
We can say that while being immediately next to Jinger was thrilling and magical in its own right, we were unable to learn their secret. We assisted in tying charming and beautiful better half of the Kalin & Jinger show and then sat as close as possible to her whilst the curtains closed around us.
Perhaps we were still unnaturally giddy being so close to someone of such renown and talent, intoxicated by her incredible beauty or startled by the rapid-fire succession of events, but we remain clueless as to how she was able to manifest the loud, chaotic spirit that literally filled the ad hoc cabinet, put a bucket on our disproportionately large skull and pulled up our pant legs all within no more than five to ten seconds.
Jinger began as a dancer at the age of four and by 15, she was in demand around the United States. She worked with Disney, Fuji Television and Southern California dinner theaters and bestowed with the a scholarship to the “Young Americans' College of Performing Arts.”
Mark and Jinger became a couple when she filled in as his assistant while performing in Guam.
If you have not seen the couple perform — and that seems unlikely given their exposure through nationalize televised shows like NBC's “Word's Greatest Magicians”, “Hidden Secrets of Magic,” Fox Family's “Magic on the Edge,” Fox TV's “World Magic Awards” and “Entertainment Tonight”, CBS and ABC — you need to make the trip to the Sun Arena this weekend or one of their upcoming performances.
Yes, we know it is spelled incorrectly but that was how he intended it to be written. Big Tom had a thing about open pores and healthy skin. Some thought this was idle curiosity about biology, some said he was vain and looking for a way to maintain his youthful looks. Others, however, claimed he used the alleged interest as a way of touching and closely examining young women. The Cook County Civil Court and his first ex-wife, Belinda, were of this latter opinion.
Regardless of his proclivities or idles, Big Tom knew what he liked and liked what he knew. He didn't know anything he didn't like and didn't like not knowing that he didn't like something he didn't know yet.
Plus, he was an opiate addict.
But our point is nonetheless valid. When one thing happens, other things tend to happen that are like the first thing.
For example, Columbus came to America and within a short time it seemed like every European country was sending ships to our shores.
Robert Harbin invented Zig-Zag and shortly thereafter, everyone invented it as well.
In Sync appears on the scene as a pop boy band and are almost immediately followed by Back Street Boys and others.
The black plague kills a couple hundred people in the mid-1300s and soon, 65 percent of Europe was dead.
Moses writes five books on religion and before you can say something blasphemous, an entire "bible" is assembled.
Ellusionist announces a sale with big discounts and, Bingo, MJM comes out with an equally cool offering.
Ellusionist.com knows we are vulnerable and yet taunts with offers of up to 30 percent off magic we want (need) if we buy in the next three days.
Yes, we freely admit we have a problem with Magic.
The deficiency is found not in the craft but in our soul. Our double-wide (practically, just shy of a true "double wide" as defined by the ISO) is about to burst at its aluminum strip covered seams with magic purchased and never used.
Our stage routine has not changed significantly since 1972 and our close-up presentation is identical to that which earned us the 1974 Florida State Magicians' Convention First-Place trophy. So, counting each deck of cards utilized as a separate trick and not counting the Atomic Light as magic but more as a novelty, we use a total of seven "tricks" in both shows combined. If we learned to do a false shuffle, we'd be down to five tricks total.
Our insurance inventory sheet, however, details 421 separate pieces of magic equipment and 1,901 magic books in hard or soft cover. If the Magic Trailer ever went up in a blaze, we could replace both of our shows for just over $35.00; not including a table. We could collect about six hundred times that figure for the loss of our "magic collection."
Perhaps your collection is our size our larger. Maybe you are just starting your collection of unused tricks in a spare dresser drawer or trunk. Each time you attend a convention, watch a lecture or visit a magic shop you likely add to the stockpile of regrets and forgotten promises.
We're not psychopathic or even amnesiac, but when we are given an opportunity to buy a magic trick (in our very low price range) we usually take full advantage. We then return home to inventory the new effect, perhaps open it from its wrapping, maybe even read the instructions, and, possibly, try it once or twice. We don't intentionally put it into the collection and when we purchase it we never think it will be anything but the primary effect of our new act.
If we performed the new act for which we have purchased so many effects over the years, we would be on stage for more than two weeks. This assumes we did not overly milk the sucker effects like "Fraidy Cat Rabbit," "Run Rabbit Run," "Run Wolf Run," "Run Monster Run," "Hippity Hop Rabbits," "Sucker Sliding Die Box," "Shamrock Sucker Sliding Die Box," "Classic Sucker Sliding Die Box," "Nu-View Sucker Sliding Die Box," and "The McCombical Deck."
Robin Leach describes Siegfried & Roy recently leaked news as "beyond magic — it's a Christmas miracle." The duo announced they will soon be celebrating "a very big step in Roy's extraordinary rehabilitation this holiday season."
The magical pair was on hand to support the local charity, Opportunity Village and host their annual party for friends and colleagues from their record-breaking magic show at the Mirage Casino and Resort and conservation project co-workers.
Mr. Leach reports the assembled cast, crew and staff greeted Siegfried & Roy with a standing ovation upon their arrival at the event. According to Mr. Leach, "Roy, who suffered severe blood loss, was said to have died three times on the operating table at the University Medical Center trauma unit here in his fight for life. He suffered partial paralysis and, at one point to relieve the pressure on his swollen brain, part of his skull was removed and protected in his stomach pouch. It was later reattached during his long-term recovery and rehabilitation at UCLA Medical Center."
Roy's recovery has been long and difficult but has apparently progressed to the point where he can ride a horse once again. Roy surprised Siegfried with the gift of two horses and his promise "that they'll be able to ride together at their Little Bavaria farm."
Siegfried told Mr. Leach he managed him to ride for 35 minutes this week – his first such activity since his injury. "In fact, we had to beg him to stop and get off so he wouldn't be sore," said one of the riding instructors helping with Roy's recovery workout program.
The development not only marks encouraging progress in Roy's physical therapy and rehabilitation, it also gives him the freedom to traverse the couple's ranch independent of his wheelchair or walking cane.
We’ll be watching. Of course, we would be watching anyway because WizWavelley (what the cool kids call the show) is one of our favorite Disney Channel series – tied with Phineas & Ferb and Jessie starring our favorite from Zack and Cody’s spin-off, The Suite Life on Deck, Debby Ryan.
Yes, we are just outside the Disney Channel demographics by about forty or sixty or ninety years, but we like good writing and those three shows have plenty of well-written stuff for us to steal. As many Inside Magic readers know, we publish a daily newsletter for stand-up comics and magicians.
On rare occasions – like daily – we run out of funny things to say. Rather than refund our subscribers’ yearly fee, we steal liberally from sources our readers are unlikely to know. It works like this.
Original Scene:
Series: Phineas & Ferb:
Episode: Boyfriend from 27,000 BC
First Aired: June 7, 2008
Phineas: They say if you love something, let it go.
Ferb: Especially if it’s a caveman.
Phineas: Yeah. Especially if it’s a caveman.
Our Tweeking:
I have a magnet on my refrigerator that reminds me, “If you love something, let it go.” That is so true. I was telling that very same thing to my girl the other night – she’s a cavewoman. She nodded and blurted sweet nothings in my ear, “let me go or I eat you!”
Result: Comedy Gold, Baby!
Magician extraordinaire David Copperfield will guest star as himself in the episode titled Harperella.
Jinger of Inside Magic Favorite Kalin & Jinger is celebrated in her hometown newspaper today in advance of the duo's shows this weekend at the beautiful Mohegan Sun Casino. 
Robin Leach describes 
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