“Who is that?”
Mike Weatherford
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.
To reinforce the beauty of your local sports book, tickets to the actual Super Bowl were averaging around $3,200 last week.
Everybody knows how the story ended, especially as it concerned Elvis Presley in Las Vegas.
Maybe 60 is the magic number for Roseanne Barr.
Angela Stabile’s book about the “Secrets of a Las Vegas Showgirl” will have to wait a few more years, and add a few more chapters.
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.”
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.”
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.
You can call them retro chicks, femme fatales or the kind of dames that Philip Marlowe would say are “worth a stare.”
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.
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.”
They always say the hardest thing about a “Saturday Night Live” sketch is figuring out how to end it.
When is a loss a gain and a win-win? When you’re juggling the schedule at The Mirage, it seems.
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