Word-of-mouth seems to be Jay Alexander’s biggest means of drawing a crowd to his Marrakech Magic Theater. Billed online as San Francisco’s most popular tourist event, without so much as one ad in print, the show sells out week after week.
Alexander’s enthusiasm for all things magic bloomed at age 11 after attending a magic show with his granddad. His path was clear even then: Magic was his future.
Alexander rummaged through every book he could find on the subject, yet he had two major obstacles to overcome before performing in public: a speech impediment and dyslexia. He practiced in front of customers at his mother’s retail shoe store while trying to overcome his fears. The speech impediment took practice to overcome, he told The Epoch Times, but dyslexia never goes away. It only troubles him with the written word—numbers are perfectly clear. When you see some of his numerology performances, you can understand that his skill for numbers was never affected by his dyslexia. In fact, it seems to make him stronger as a skilled mathematician….