Many of us may have, at some point, felt a deep longing (probably spurred by a certain young adult fiction book series) to be swept away to a magical school of spells, potions, and general sorcery.

“Can you hold a minute?” Carole Demas asks while setting up an interview about her and her former “Magic Garden” co-star Paula Janis' Oct. 15 visit to Long Island. “I’m looking out my window, and ...