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Mike Weatherford

Act and success go on for magical duo

Penn & Teller are bumping up there with Vegas greats such as Tom Jones and Siegfried & Roy in the number of shows they have logged on the Strip. But next month, it’s all about Busey.

Oooh, that’s gotta hurt … the budget

To reinforce the beauty of your local sports book, tickets to the actual Super Bowl were averaging around $3,200 last week.

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‘Quartet’ must climb; ‘Legends’ will be fine

The Elvis connection is obvious, but ladies and gentlemen, there’s another way to look at “Million Dollar Quartet” replacing – or at least displacing – “Legends in Concert.”

‘Legwarmers – An ’80s Musical’ a no-frills enterprise

Although “Rock of Ages” offers a big-budget comic salute to the crazy ’80s days of MTV and VHS, there’s a direct-to-video alternative called “Legwarmers – An ’80s Musical.”

Recycled Percussion looks, then leaps to new venue

Only a few minutes after talk of how the four members of Recycled Percussion can’t get sick or injured and never miss a show, Ryan Vezina decides to jump off a 12-foot riser.

They thrill and trill, dressed to kill

You can call them retro chicks, femme fatales or the kind of dames that Philip Marlowe would say are “worth a stare.”

Plenty of adding, subtracting downtown

I may not be smarter than a fifth-grader, but I have mastered some math for downtown shows: Four times zero equals zero. Two minus one equals one. But we still could get to eight, nine or 10.

Union question rocks ‘Rock’

So the Broadway musical “Rock of Ages” appears to be morphing from a nonunion to an Actors Equity Association production, after the president of the union flew to Las Vegas to meet with members and to resolve what one participant called “a sticky little situation.”

Easy to roll with ‘Rock of Ages’

They always say the hardest thing about a “Saturday Night Live” sketch is figuring out how to end it.

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