Metro Magic: The Show Before the Show

At Kaning Itim by Studio A Productions, the theatre hadn’t even begun — but the magic already had.

Before the spotlights were turned on, the lobby transformed into a stage. Guests leaned closer, gasped louder, and forgot they were waiting for the “real” show to start. Metro Magic Philippines gave them something they didn’t expect: an experience worth the ticket on its own.

At the heart of it all were three performers changing the face of Filipino magic. Mac Florendo, The Voice of Magic, weaving stories into every illusion. Emmanuel Espiritu, the country’s most intriguing mind reader, bending thoughts and choices as if by instinct. And Ralph Tee, a rising star whose sharp sleight-of-hand brings impossible moments right to your fingertips.

It wasn’t background entertainment. It was the show before the show. And it left guests wondering: if this was only the beginning, what could possibly come next?

“We don’t want people to just wait for the show to start,” says Mac Florendo. “We want the waiting itself to become part of the experience where guests are already wondering, already mesmerized, already swept into the magic before they even take their seats.”

Metro Magic isn’t just about entertaining. It’s about transforming events into memories, and moments into something worth talking about long after the lights go down.

See them once, and you’ll want them at every event after.