SWEDISH MAGICIAN MAGIC THOR
With more than 25 years of experience as a professional magician and a physical comedian, Magic Thor is one of the foremost entertainer in Sweden. His oneman show is a mixture of standup comedy, skilled juggling and spectacular magic tricks, where he juggles machetes and other dangerous objects down to harmless pingpongballs in his mouth. It´s a funny, wild and crazy show with a touch of burlesque.
The pingpong number is a unique act that always draws both laughter and applause from the audience.
Magic Thor has performed all over the world - Africa, Asia, Euroupe, Russia and USA. His act and personality, a charming charisma and his way to handle the audience is what makes him to a great entertainer with an international aproach.
Apart from performing on stage Magic Thor (Thorsten Andreassen) is working as a creative producer at the production company Fynnybones Production. Funnybones Production produce Stockholm Street Festival, an annual festival in the middle of Stockholm. Magic Thor is the Festival Director and presents some of the worlds best streetperformers during three days in July, such as The English Gents, Space Cowboy, Charlie Caper, Abi Collins and Pedro Tochas to name a few.
He is the President of Manegen - National Federation for contemporary circus, vareity and streetperformance in Sweden.
Magic Thor is working as a consultant for different companies within the entertainment industry, such as Shine Groupe, Meter Television, were he was co-creating all the acts for Team Halvarson/Michael Halvarson in the Swedish version of the Brittish TV format "The Magicians", aired autumn 2011 on Swedish Television, channel 1 as Helt Magiskt
The Swedish Gycklargruppen 1987- 2007
(The Buffon Company)
Magic Thor (Thorsten Andreassen) is one of the founding member and frontman of the Swedish awardwinning company Gycklargruppen that was renovating the new circus in Scandinavia one quarter of century ago.
"Gycklargruppen has rapidly gained Stockholmers' hearts through their tempo-charged performances with breathtaking acrobatics and clever gags coupled with self-irony and warmth. They give the old vauduville tradition, new dimensions and offers generous audience into the ring."
DN "På Stans Kasperpris" 1990 (The paper Daily News)
The 2 photos to the right from Bern's Vareity 1995-1996
Photo: Joakim Strömholm
Willy Andreassen aka Wilando, he also performed under the name Dr. Wilostro
The father of Magic Thor. Willy inspired Magic Thor in a early age to enter the world of magic and later to approach the stage of vauduville at the age of 10.
