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Shoot Ogawa: After Dark An extraordinarily intimate late-night experience where your hands share the table with the world champion
Intimate Theater Experience
Free Valet
Parking
Complimentary Rum Punch
VIP Seating Available
World-Class Entertainment
Perfect for Families & Couples
Info:
- Strictly Limited to 20 Guests
- Complimentary Museum of Curiosities & Oddities Admission
- Every Seat Located Just Feet From The Performer
- Interactive, Personal, and Immersive Experience
- Complimentary Valet Parking Included
- Located at Hilton Waikiki Beach Hotel
AFTER DARK: AN EVENING WITH SHOOT OGAWA
The closest, most exclusive performance by the greatest sleight-of-hand artist alive.
For more than three decades, Shoot Ogawa has been regarded as one of the finest close-up magicians in the world. A FISM World Champion, eight-time Magic Castle Magician of the Year, and the performer whom Penn & Teller publicly described as “the best living sleight-of-hand artist alive,” Shoot has spent a lifetime achieving what most magicians consider impossible. While audiences at The Magical Mystery Show! already sit just feet from the action during our acclaimed nightly Victorian parlor performances, AFTER DARK goes somewhere few magic experiences on Earth dare to venture: inches away.
Presented only a few nights each month and limited to fewer than 21 guests, AFTER DARK is reserved exclusively for adults. Not because the show is risqué—it isn’t—but because this level of intimacy demands complete attention. This is Shoot Ogawa in his favorite environment: small, personal, unforgiving, and impossibly close. Your hands are on the table. Every guest becomes part of the experience. Every movement, every moment, every impossible mystery unfolds directly in front of you. If our nightly shows place you feet away from world-class magic, AFTER DARK places you inside it.
The room itself is designed for perfection. Just two rows of seating are available. Front Row guests sit directly at the performance table, while Second Row guests enjoy elevated captain’s barstool seating with unobstructed sightlines only inches farther away. There are no bad seats. There is no stage. There is nowhere for secrets to hide. In many respects, this is a more intimate experience than even the legendary private rooms of Hollywood’s Magic Castle or London’s Magic Circle. Few performers on Earth possess the technical mastery required to work under these conditions. Fewer still would willingly attempt it.
Join us at the Hilton Waikiki Beach Resort. There, hidden within King Kalākaua’s Royal Hawaiian Museum of Curiosities and Oddities, a secret Victorian world awaits. Step through the museum doors and back to 1881—the same era when King Kalākaua traveled the globe and witnessed the finest parlour entertainments of Victorian London. What follows is not merely a magic show. It is a rare encounter with mastery itself.
For two extraordinary hours—from 9:30 PM until 11:30 PM—you will witness skill so refined it borders on the supernatural, laughter so relentless it leaves guests wiping tears from their eyes, and moments so impossible they remain with you for years afterward. If you collect extraordinary experiences, this belongs near the top of your list. It exists nowhere else in the world. Only in Waikīkī. Only a few nights each month. Only after dark.
Second Row: $150 per guest
Front Row: $200 per guest
Frequently Asked Questions
What exactly is The Magical Mystery Show?
The Magical Mystery Show is family-friendly and perfect for date night, featuring comedy and magic from performers you may have seen on Penn & Teller: Fool Us, America’s Got Talent, international television, and global award stages.
The show presents some of the world’s best magical entertainers in an elegant, intimate setting, designed to truly stun and entertain. You are only a few feet away as impossible moments and miracles happen right before your eyes.
The experience takes place in our unique Hawaiian-Victorian, antique-filled theatre. Your journey begins in the Museum of Curiosities and Oddities, setting the tone for a step back in time. Inspired by history, the show references 1881, when Hawaii’s last king, King David Kalākaua, witnessed magic in a London home. We share the history, lore, and fun throughout this one-of-a-kind experience.
Each show is limited to fewer than 60 guests to preserve the intimacy, allowing for close-up magic, laughter, and the charm of a bygone era. Guests actively participate in the performance and experience astonishing feats of prestidigitation up close.
Guests leave with the lines between fantasy and reality completely blurred.
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