{"id":523503,"date":"2026-07-13T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/523503\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:12:09","slug":"how-an-illusionist-made-a-magic-throne-for-the-ozzy-osbourne-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/523503\/","title":{"rendered":"How an illusionist made a magic throne for the Ozzy Osbourne tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kirkham said the exterior had to be refreshed after years of use, while the armrests were altered so it could comfortably accommodate Ozzy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We originally built it to use in the Ice Capade show in 1976,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That show toured for several years using the prop on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a large chair that contained a smaller foundational structure inside of it that the performer is seated in, as the rest of the throne can be displayed as appearing empty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was a smoke pot at the front base that was set off electronically when it was time for Ozzy to appear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My brother and I enjoyed telling our friends about it, but we were never able to wrangle any tickets for the show because of the connection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although the family never saw the throne used live in person, they watched footage on US TV Entertainment Tonight, Kirkham said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirkham said the exterior had to be refreshed after years of use, while the armrests were altered so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-523503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}