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A live in-studio set on NBC's TODAY, introduced by guest co-host Dean Cain.
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Farrell performed live on NBC's TODAY. The segment — "Watch Farrell Dillon of 'Masters of Illusion' do amazing tricks live" — ran during TODAY's Take, with guest co-host Dean Cain, host of Masters of Illusion, welcoming him to the studio.
The set was close-up work built for a morning audience: sleight of hand at conversation distance, including thimbles appearing and vanishing from his fingers, performed live with hosts standing inches away.
National morning television is unforgiving — one take, daylight studio lighting, and a crew that has seen everything. It's the clearest evidence that the show works without a theater to hide in.