With His New Show, ‘Ta-Da!,’ Josh Sharp Finds the Magic—and the Music—in a 2,000

Misdirection is one of the keys to a successful magic trick: You think you understand where it’s going until, voilà , you find that you were duped. The magician, in their flurry of words, their exaggerated movements, and their fakeouts, has spun you around, dizzying you to the point where you’ve lost your bearings—and missed the mechanics of the trick. Ta-da! They pulled it off.

Josh Sharp, the comedian and actor best known for co-writing and starring in 2023’s Dicks: The Musical , performs his own sleight-of-hand trick with Ta-da! , a new one-man show directed by recent Tony winner Sam Pinkleton ( Oh, Mary! ), which runs through August 23 at the Greenwich House Theater.

Featuring a 2,000-slide PowerPoint presentation, Ta-da! is 80 minutes of multitudinous mania. Eschewing an