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The Ethel M Chocolates’ Cactus Garden, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s Glittering Lights and more holiday events will attract Las Vegas Valley residents and guests celebrating the holidays.
They just don’t make ’em like that anymore. And even if they did, anyone trying to follow in Ben Vereen’s footsteps would have a tough time keeping up with the original.
We all know stage/television performer Sam Harris is talented. He was the first winner of “Star Search” back in 1984; in the 1997 Cy Coleman/ Ira Gasman/David Newman musical “The Life,” he won a Tony nomination playing a hard-hearted hustler in New York.
Oh Cirque du Soleil, how you have spoiled us. You give us a bewitching “snake lady” sprouting from a base of coiled serpents, putting a swinging pendulum-ball of fire in the way of a poor guy who just wants to jump rope up on a high wire. And we say this is vaguely familiar.