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The Magical Mystery Show received the Most Overall Votes in the American Savings Bank’s Buy Local Hawaiʻi People’s Choice Award.
We have some very exciting news to share.
The Magical Mystery Show has been named the 2026 Buy Local Hawaiʻi People’s Choice Award winner—receiving the MOST OVERALL VOTES.
And what makes this recognition especially meaningful is simple:
YOU chose us.
This wasn’t an award selected by a panel of judges, industry insiders, or travel writers. It was decided by the public—the people who live in Hawaiʻi, visit Hawaiʻi, support local businesses, and share the experiences they love with their families and friends.
For that, we can only say:
Mahalo, Hawaiʻi. ❤️
Every vote meant something to us.
Every guest who attended the show, every local who told a friend, every family who brought their keiki, every visitor who discovered us while vacationing in Waikīkī, and every person who took the time to cast a vote helped make this possible.
This award belongs to all of you.
Most Overall Votes Among More Than 150 Hawaiʻi Businesses
The scale of this award makes the recognition particularly special.
American Savings Bank created the inaugural Buy Local Hawaiʻi People’s Choice Award to give the community an opportunity to celebrate the local businesses they love.
The Buy Local Hawaiʻi program includes more than 150 local merchants across five Hawaiian islands: Oʻahu, Maui, Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi Island, and Molokaʻi. (American Savings Bank Hawaii)
And when the votes were counted, The Magical Mystery Show received the Most Overall Votes.
For a show built around intimate performances, laughter, wonder, and bringing people together, knowing that so many people throughout Hawaiʻi, across the country, and around the world supported us is incredibly humbling.
We didn’t simply win our category. We received the Most Overall Votes.\
That is something our entire Magical Mystery Show ʻohana will always remember.
Why This Award Means So Much to Us
- The Magical Mystery Show has always been difficult to describe until you experience it.
- Yes, there is extraordinary magic.
- But the experience has never really been about simply watching tricks from a theater seat.
- It’s about sitting just feet away from world-class performers.
- It’s about suddenly becoming part of the show.
- It’s about watching your children stare in absolute disbelief.
- It’s about your spouse laughing harder than you have seen them laugh all week.
- It’s about strangers entering the room together and leaving, having a memorable shared experience.
- And sometimes it’s about somebody reluctantly agreeing to attend a magic show on vacation…and walking out saying it was one of their favorite nights in Hawaiʻi.
- That reaction appears over and over again in guest feedback and reviews. Visitors describe an up-close and personal experience filled with audience participation, laughter, close-up magic, and moments families continue talking about afterward.
- That connection with our guests is what makes this award different.
The same people we perform for every night are the people who made this happen.
Proud to Be Part of Hawaiʻi’s Local Business Community
This recognition also represents something bigger than our show.
The Magical Mystery Show, a production of Hotel Magic LLC, is proud to be part of Hawaiʻi’s local business community.
American Savings Bank launched Buy Local Hawaiʻi in 2021 to encourage people to support local merchants while helping those businesses gain additional visibility. The program has grown to include more than 150 participating businesses across five islands. (American Savings Bank Hawaii)
Programs like this matter.
Every locally supported restaurant, attraction, retailer, service provider, and small business helps create the Hawaiʻi that residents love and visitors travel thousands of miles to experience.
We’re honored to stand alongside so many outstanding Hawaiʻi businesses.
“Our hats off to all of the winners on the individual islands of this award,” said Jonathan Todd, founder, producer, and magician at The Magical Mystery Show. “And our hope for everyone’s continued success and growth during these challenging times.”
And we’re especially grateful to American Savings Bank and Buy Local Hawaiʻi for creating a program that actively promotes and celebrates local businesses throughout the islands.
Mahalo to American Savings Bank for continuing to champion Hawaiʻi’s local business communit
“We couldn’t have become the force we are today without the support of our bank, American Savings Bank,” Todd said. “At every level, from branch to executives, this bank has gone above and beyond and truly embodies the spirit of community business banking support. This is not words with American Savings Bank. It’s deeds, its actions, and it’s a way of interacting to help the businesses in the community gain tools they would not have had otherwise. Our hats are off to a bank that walks the walk instead of talking the talk.”
Most of All, Mahalo to You
Awards are wonderful.
But this one means something different because there would be no award without the people who voted.
So whether you’ve attended The Magical Mystery Show once, brought your whole ʻohana, returned to see another magician, recommended us to a visiting friend, shared a post, left a review, or simply cast a vote…
Mahalo.
You helped a small, unusual show tucked inside Waikīkī become the 2026 Buy Local Hawaiʻi People’s Choice Award winner with the Most Overall Votes.
We’re proud.
We’re grateful.
And we’re more excited than ever about what comes next.
Come See the Show Hawaiʻi Chos
If you’ve never experienced The Magical Mystery Show, there’s never been a better time to discover what our guests have been talking about.
Step inside our intimate Waikīkī theater and experience world-class magic, comedy, audience participation, and an evening designed to make you forget—for a little while—that the impossible is supposed to be impossible.
Come experience the 2026 Buy Local Hawaiʻi People’s Choice Award winner — and see why Hawaiʻi gave The Magical Mystery Show the Most Overall Votes.
