NEW YORK—The old saying “pick a card, any card” may be a more than a little timeworn, but in the hands of a master magician, it’s completely spot-on.  The master Asi Wind proves this point in his show “Inner Circle,” now running off-Broadway at The Gym at Judson.
Handling a deck of cards with the skill of surgeon, Wind controls its contents from the first moment to the show’s last. In between, one gets to witness such scenarios as a card that seemingly jumps from one place to another, while somehow folding itself in the process.
Wind also manages to have the cards mysteriously re-order themselves in a particular manner—no matter how many times they have been shuffled beforehand, or how many people were actually involved in the shuffling process….