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Zumba lovers and charitable people, unite! On March 20, you can join in on the Zumbathon at Mandalay Bay. From 7 to 8:30 p.m., people are invited to dance to raise money for MDA’s Augie’s Quest. This is a cure-driven initiative to find treatments and cures for Lou Gehrig’s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Participants will get the chance to win a meeting with Beto, the creator behind Zumba. For more information and to register for the event, http://www.zumba.com/aqlasvegas.
Spinal Tap had a mini Stonehenge, but “we have a Mayan jungle onstage,” John Payne says.
Claude “Mego” Lemay, as musical director for Celine Dion, is a gatekeeper for the most coveted player’s job on the Strip: the singer’s Colosseum at Caesars Palace shows with a 31-piece orchestra, which bring back the good ol’ days of Las Vegas as a working musician’s paradise for at least 70 nights per year.
The Laugh Factory comedy club at the Tropicana will stage a benefit show Wednesday for the family of Michael Boldon, the taxi driver who died when his cab exploded in the Feb. 21 shooting on the Strip.
Cee Lo, if you were on my team as a TV talent-show contestant and I was your coach, I’d have some advice for you. And it starts with this:
How long has Bill Cosby’s name been in lights on the Strip?
Since he had to share marquee space with Trini Lopez in 1963.
Ready to give up your hair for a good cause? Nine Fine Irishmen at New York-New York will host a St. Baldrick’s Day head-shaving event from 1 to 11 p.m. Saturday.
We’ll talk Motown in a bit, but the real story of Human Nature this time is about reinvestment.
The Boyz part of the name might be a distant memory — wishful thinking at this point — as they repeatedly rehearse the energetic choreography to their new show opener, “Beautiful Woman.”
There’s a lot riding on the shoulders — the lovely, currently bare-atop-the-bodice-of-an-amazing-red-gown shoulders — of Claire Sinclair.
