The Rainbow Company Youth Theatre is offering numerous opportunities this summer for youth interested in theater.
Shows
“Les Misérables” will open the 2013- 14 Broadway Las Vegas series at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in August. The upcoming season, which runs through July 2014, is sponsored by Southern Nevada Ford dealerships. The lineup brings many of Broadway’s most beloved and famed musicals and plays to Las Vegas for the first time.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Presents Built to Amaze! is an extraordinarily engineered circus experience where children of all ages find out what it takes to build the Greatest Show on Earth. The foundation is set and the rising anticipation of high-energy, high-jinx and hilarity is ready to be transported by colorful circus machinery and unleashed from shipping crates right before the audience’s eyes June 13-16 at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Twenty-six years after his death, Las Vegas icon and flamboyant pianist Liberace is being reintroduced to a new generation of fans with an HBO movie and a Strip concert show that is reminiscent of his flashiness.
Order somehow emerges when you take B-boys, street dance, hip-hop, mime, physical comedy, acrobatics, masks and white gloves and stir them all together into this thing called the Jabbawockeez.
On May 16, 1983, Michael Jackson secured his own legend by dancing to “Billie Jean” on NBC’s “Motown 25” special. It aired two weeks after “Legends in Concert” opened in Las Vegas.
Lifestyle blogger Jordan Reid and Brazilian model Camila Alves-McConaughey will host a fashionable afternoon Saturday at Macy’s in the Fashion Show mall.
It’s obvious any night on the Strip, and especially the week before “The Hangover Part III” opens, that “Vegas has become kind of the test audience for the new generation of Cavemen.”
Alfred “Floor Rock” Ruiz remembers a time when b-boys battled just for the love of it. Now, 22 years into his dance career, the 34-year-old is judging a corporate-sponsored b-boy competition that will lead to a National Final in Houston that will lead to a World Final in South Korea.
I wasn’t even in Las Vegas last Sunday night. And if I was, I probably would have been turning in and not down at the Plaza at 11 p.m.
So Don Rickles was sidelined by food poisoning a few weeks ago, but Tony Bennett knocked it out of the park last weekend. Next up in the Octogenarian Classics series: Jerry Lewis.
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