Manchester doubles up on Las Vegas
Melissa Manchester is making up for lost time, and Las Vegas is big enough for different casino companies to book her on opposite sides of town the same year.
The "Midnight Blue" singer logged a lot of showroom time on the Strip in the 1980s, but explained her more recent absence before singing at Boulder Station last February.
"I took a lot of time off to raise my kids because I couldn't understand the landscape of the recording industry, and it sort of made me crazy. So I stepped away for several years," she said.
Manchester, due at the Suncoast on Saturday and Sunday, taught vocal performance at the University of Southern California, and her songwriting was the basis of the musical "Hats!," a tribute to the Red Hat Society, which played on the Strip in 2008.
"When my kids got old enough, I went back on the road because that's my version of normal," she said in February. "I keep having these lovely creative adventures."
Contact reporter Mike Weatherford at mweatherford@
reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0288.
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Melissa Manchester
7:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday
Suncoast, 9090 Alta Drive
$17.50-$44 (636-7075)
