Madame Rose & Professor Lazlo presenting The Deluxe Magic Show

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Saturday, December 16, 2023
7:00 pm

Madame Rose and Professor Lazlo invite you to their award-winning act, "The Deluxe Magic Show."

Described as a cross between "Laugh In" and "Twilight Zone", this mischievous duet performs magic "like nothing you've seen before." You will understand why when you see the show.

In 2019 their creative performance won them first prize in the Stage Magic Contest at the 81st convention of the Wisconsin Houdini Club. They were also given the Design and Costuming Award. The show combines magic and performance art, ridiculous humor, and a sense of absurdity, but is sometimes poignant and serious too. Everyone goes home feeling just a little bit better.

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