Yes, the show is called “Panda!” And huggable, roly-poly pandas you get, from the moment they come bouncing down the aisles to kick off the opening acrobatics in their bamboo forest.
Mike Weatherford
Broadway musicals have been about the only thing (besides concert headliners) to challenge Cirque du Soleil on the Strip. Now Cirque has hired the guy who brought a lot of them to town to create some Broadway musicals of its own.
If you need no introduction to Bill Fayne, you may already have tickets for “A Love Story” this afternoon.
Kevin Lepine’s “Hypnosis Unleashed” recently celebrated a year in the cozy showroom at Hooters Hotel, no small achievement at a place that’s faced its larger struggles and hasn’t been able to offer much support.
Meat Loaf will never be confused with Britney Spears. Maybe that’s the point.
Derrick Barry owes his career to Britney Spears. So I knew the female impersonator would hang on any word she had to say about him.
The sideshow is the main show at Beacher’s Madhouse, which Jeff Beacher describes as “a modern vaudeville show.”
By March, there will be seven concert venues between a capacity of 1,500 and 5,000 within a 4-mile radius, including: The Axis at Planet Hollywood, The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and The Brooklyn Bowl at The Linq near Harrah’s.
“Any song in the world,” Bruno Mars challenged the audience to yell up on his opening night in the new Chelsea theater at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. “I just want to play around. Any song in the world …”
The Phat Pack is maybe what you’d imagine if Broadway singers came and did a show in your living room. There’s going to be an element of fun to it, but you are still going to sit up straight and not chatter while the guy from “Les Miz” sings “Bring Him Home” right there in front of you.
You don’t have to wait for the new owner to restore Liberace’s mansion. Vegas show people are out in the suburbs, from a hypnotic light show to zombie Christmas carols.
This afternoon, old friends Tony Sacca and Denise Clemente plan to sing “Let It Snow” at Sacca’s annual “Merry Christmas Las Vegas” show, in which they have both performed most of the past 27 years.
It’s that time of year when it’s starting to be more interesting to talk about what could happen next year, including a super-team of magicians, a Teller-directed “Tempest” and a more-like-the-movie “Spider-man.”
Other old-school entertainers — Donny and Marie Osmond, Human Nature — cut and run for the month. Other shows, such as “Legends in Concert,” squeeze in a Christmas song or two. But Terry Fator goes all in.