Watching magician Rob Lake is like seeing a Disney theme park on stage.

“Like Disney, I try to create wonder, magic and enjoyment of disbelief,” Lake says in a phone interview from his home in Oklahoma City, Okla.

Lake is more properly called an illusionist, someone who performs “magic tricks” on a large scale. He uses huge contraptions with music, lights, spectacular props, flashes of fire and the latest technology in what is arguably the most spectacular show of its kind.

He has made a motorcycle disappear and cut himself in half with a laser.

He does some traditional things like cutting his assistants in half or levitating them, but he always does it in a way that has never been done before.

“The Magic of Rob Lake,” 7 p.m. March 1, State Theatre Center for the Arts, Easton, rescheduled from a canceled performance last year, is Lake’s first show in the Lehigh Valley.

Lake says the State Theatre was one of the first places where he sent a VHS audition tape when he was starting his career. Determined to becoming a magician from the age of 10, he had some lean years before he achieved success.

Lake will be sure to call up people to stand next to him on stage: “It is important for me to communicate with the audience. Being interactive makes people experience magic first-hand, and it relieves skepticism about how the illusions are done.”

He will include two or three dancers who serve as his assistants. “They do all the work and I take all the credit,” he says.

Lake has a crew of 20 or so people and travels with four or five semi-tractor trailers full of equipment. In the past, he used to drive one of the trucks himself.

“We bring more illusions than we will need to adjust to the theater. Every theater is different.”

In 2008, Lake became the youngest magician in history to receive the Merlin Award as International Stage Magician of the Year, the top honor in his field. He has appeared many times on The CW Network’s “Masters of Illusion.”

“There used to be magic shows all the time on TV. Now the only place you see them regularly is in Las Vegas,” he says.

Lake’s career is going strong. He has appeared in more than 60 countries and has sold more than one million tickets. Soon after his State Theatre show, he will perform in Dubai for the second time.

His appearances on the 13th season of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” made him world-famous:

“‘AGT’ changes their videos each season. Before they took down that season, my videos had 70 to 80 million views.”

It took 10 or so years of negotiations before Lake agreed to appear on the show.

“I don’t watch much television. I had no idea of how big it was. When I went there, I saw that they have hundreds of crew members.”

He recalls a near-disaster right before his appearance when “AGT” went live:

“We had to use their system. Their video cable went out and they had to put in a new cable seconds before the show went on.”

Lake uses technology like TV screens and lasers for showmanship and computers to coordinate the different elements of his illusions. But the basic principles are the same, which is to make you wonder, “How does he do that?”

“The things that we carry around with us like cellphones would have been considered magic a century ago,” he says.

“I am a very creative person. I think, ‘What if I do this?’ I’m always working on new illusions. I just improved my longest illusion. My audience does probably not notice, but I do.”

But everyone who watches Rob Lake notices that they are seeing a fabulous magic show.

“The Magic of Rob Lake,” 7 p.m. March 1, State Theatre Center for the Arts, 453 Northampton St., Easton. Tickets: 610-252-3132, www.statetheatre.org