It takes a great deal of prestidigitatory skill to poison someone before your very eyes so to speak.'

As a stage magician performing under the name "The Great Zadgemunn", he mentored several now-prominent practitioners of the prestidigitatory arts, including David Blaine.

Mr. Jay, writer, historian, frequent television guest and consultant to film makers on matters illusional and prestidigitatory, had been trying for 16 years to get his one-man show produced before Second Stage finally accommodated him this winter.