Terry Ward’s remarkable career has seen him perform for millions of people at Walt Disney World Resort, racking up over three decades’ worth of experience and insight over tens of thousands of shows. These comments came from a conversation with Jon Armstrong and were written up by Will Houstoun.
Iced tea, please.
I was going to Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina, studying theater, and I saw an audition at Carolwinds amusement park. I’d put together some of the effects that I was doing at the time, and auditioned as a magician. They seemed very interested, but I got a letter that said, unfortunately, that they had no place for me. Then I got a call a while after that saying that their magician at their theme park up in Virginia called King’s Dominion backed out, and would I be interested? I went into it not knowing a lot. I had never even seen anybody perform on the street before. So I was just trying to see what worked.