Career Highlights

1975  At the age of 12, Outerbridge is a sensation in his neighborhood performing at birthday parties as Magic Ted for $5.00 a show.

1982  Outerbridge makes his international debut and front page headlines while performing at the Rosebank Theater in Bermuda.

1984  Outerbridge stars in his own TV special, Magic With Ted Outerbridge.

1985  Outerbridge's TV career takes off with regular appearances on local English and French television.

1986  Outerbridge's innovative style earns him first prize in two international magic competitions.

1987  The Cirque du Soleil hires Outerbridge as magic consultant for its national TV special L'Enfant du Cirque.

1988  Switching Channels, starring Kathleen Turner and Christopher Reeves, introduces Outerbridge to the motion picture industry.  Outerbridge creates the magic for this Tri-Star Pictures film.

1989  The Cirque de Soleil once again recruits Outerbridge and a Walt Disney special effects expert to collaborate in the development of its new show, Eclipse.

1990  Outerbridge produces a motorcycle on stage at a Yamaha sales convention.  He appears regularly at trade shows and sales conferences for clients such as A&M Records, Avon, IBM, and Sony.

1991  Outerbridge performs at the internationally renowned Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal.

1992  Outerbridge makes his 60th television appearance.

1993  Outerbridge introduces a new high-tech illusion The Woman in the Television to his show.  He returns to the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival for the second time.

1994  The Ted Outerbridge Illusions show tours Eastern Canada.

 

1995  Outerbridge brings his illusions to the National Hockey League, performing a televised pre-game show in hockey arenas across Canada.

1996  Outerbridge receives the Magician of the Year award from his peers.  He designs, creates, and performs a series of illusions for Gillette's Cavalcade of Stars which tours across Canada.

1997  Outerbridge is chosen by the Canadian Embassy to represent Canada in the United States.  His show is featured at the Montreal Casino.  He receives the Tom Auburn Award for magical excellence.

1998  Outerbridge tours Eastern Canada including his second run at the Montreal Casino.  He introduces his “Straitjacket Escape” to the show, an illusion where he escapes from a straitjacket and somehow manages to reappear in the middle of the audience!

1999  Working with award-winning choreographer Don Jordan and lead assistant and dancer Marion Hinz, Ted Outerbridge Magician Extraordinaire tours Canada and earns Outerbridge sensational reports from the critics, including the front page of Canada's national newspaper The National Post and an invitation to appear on Late Nite with David Letterman.

2000  Outerbridge celebrates 25 years of magic and tours 80 cities across Canada and the USA.

 

2001  Ted and Marion Outerbridge embark on their largest international tour to date with performances for Princess Cruises and a one-month run at the oldest variety theater in Germany, the Hansa-Theater.  Despite offers to extend his tour in Germany, the show returns to Canada and amazes magicians and laymen alike with its latest illusion, "A Lady Divided ... Under Test Conditions".

 

2002  Ted and Marion Outerbridge tour North American theatres and casinos with their new show, Magical Moments in Time.  Netherlands-based award-winning choreographer Pattie Obey is recruited to assist in the creation of several new, original illusions, including "The Time Machine" and "The Museum of Time".  TV appearances include The Discovery Channel's Mystery Hunters.

 

2003  The success of the Magical Moments in Time tour results in many return bookings with added dates, and a Magical Moments in Time TV special is in the works.