The unsinkable "Fashionistas" on the Strip will trade one noncasino venue for another when it moves from Krave nightclub/Harmon Theater to the Empire Ballroom in February.

"The Soprano's Last Supper" most likely will follow when "Fashionistas" closes in mid-January, possibly leaving the Krave venue that once juggled four shows with only one, "Hypnosis Gone Wild."

"I've got to try something else. The show deserves another chance," says "Fashionistas" creator John Stagliano, who has made no secret of keeping the two-year-old labor of love open by subsidizing it with money he makes as an adult video producer.

"Fashionistas" has no nudity and is primarily a dance piece, but the tale about a love triangle within the fashion industry is adapted from one of Stagliano's porn films.

Jumping to another freestanding venue sounds like a lateral move at best. But Stagliano claims the Empire has two major business advantages. Primarily, the new location will have a freestanding ticketing kiosk fronting the Strip, to better catch the eyes of pedestrians. Krave is hard to access from an outside corner of the Desert Passage mall.

Second, Stagliano says some ticket agents and potential ticket-buyers still have a hard time understanding that ticketed shows in the early evenings aren't gay-themed like Krave's nightclub operation. Last summer, the venue adopted the Harmon Theater name to better distinguish the two operations.

The Empire's club music is "more house, more electronica, a little closer to what I use in my show," Stagliano says, creating the possibility of holding audiences for a smooth transition from ticketed show to nightclub operation.

He also says he isn't giving up any aesthetics for a title that plays very well in the Krave setting. "It's going to seem like the show's all around you and on top of you more."

The Empire is operated by Gino LoPinto and owned by a Las Vegas investment firm listed as Cap Tor LLC on Clark County records.

Stagliano is also an investor in Krave and owns some of the audio and video equipment inside the club. "They are two separate businesses," he says. If he didn't pay a fair rent to the club for "Fashionistas," "they could rent out (the time slot) to somebody else."

That's exactly what Krave operator Bill Huggins hopes to do. "There are two or three shows in the works to take over the spots," he says, none of them shows that have recently closed elsewhere in the tourist corridor. The hypnosis show is doing well enough to consider a move to the main room from the smaller restaurant side of the club, he added. ...

Another cabaret-sized revue slipped into the Shimmer Cabaret at the Las Vegas Hilton last weekend. "Hitzville" will work around the busy schedule of "Menopause The Musical," playing Sundays and Mondays through Feb. 12.

The Motown tribute is produced by Ron Stevenson of the group Fair Play, and originated at the Hilton last year as a one-shot benefit for Katrina victims. Henderson-based Jin Jin Reeves stars in the new edition.

The Hilton closes out the National Finals Rodeo with weekend shows by Vince Gill, who is scheduled to put in a bit of extra time tomorrow with third-graders from John S. Park-Edison Elementary.

It's part of an outreach program by the Grammy Foundation to raise money and awareness for music education. The Hilton Harmony Piano -- a grand piano autographed by more than 100 artists, including Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder -- will be on display at the casino through Dec. 19. ...

Finally, who ever thought we'd see this day? If everyone stays on schedule this weekend, Tom Jones will be singing "Kiss" at the MGM Grand Hotel while Prince sings it at the Rio.

You can view this as part of the overall oddity of Prince becoming a Vegas headliner, or as a testament to the staying power of the 66-year-old Jones. His career was revived -- it now seems ages ago -- by his quirky 1988 cover of the Prince hit with the Art of Noise.

My first interview with Jones that year generated a quote I still remember. I mentioned that his version of the "Kiss" changes the lyric from "Women not girls rule my world" to "Women and girls..."

"Why would he want to leave out the girls?" the Tomcat responded with all seriousness.

Mike Weatherford's entertainment column appears Thursdays and Sundays. Contact him at mweatherford@reviewjournal.com.