Magician vanishes from fringe lineup

By: Kevin Prokosh Posted: 7:32 AM CDT Thursday, Jul. 16, 2015

MAGICIAN Chris Funk was there one minute, and then — abracadabra! — he disappeared from the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival.

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MAGICIAN Chris Funk was there one minute, and then — abracadabra! — he disappeared from the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival.

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MAGICIAN Chris Funk was there one minute, and then — abracadabra! — he disappeared from the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival.

The Wonderist, as Funk is known, was scheduled to open his show Redefining Wonder July 15 but had to cancel the run because of an injury that took place at the Toronto Fringe Festival last week.

“Well, Thursday night, as I was about to open the doors for my fifth Toronto fringe show, I heard a pop, and had a horrible pain in my Achilles again,” he said via email this week. “I found out that I don’t need surgery and it is just a strain. But I am back to not walking for a while while it heals.”

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Funk tore his Achilles last January and couldn’t walk for three months. And couldn’t work, which he says was more painful than the physical symptoms. And now it’s happened again.

“I am very disappointed that I have to cancel not only the rest of my fringe shows, but many private gigs, too,” he says. “Just when I thought my career was on the up-and-up this year with TV work, this happens, twice.”

Funk was referring to his appearance on the second season of the CW network series Penn & Teller’s Fool Us . He will perform his signature routine, involving his violin-playing skills, with the hope of fooling Penn and Teller for the chance to open for one of their shows in Las Vegas. The series started airing July 6, but no date is set for Funk’s episode.