A man (or woman) all alone on a stage, working with no safety net beyond talent, charisma and the good will generated by the effort.
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Gather ’round kiddies, and I shall tell you a magical Christmas tale of a little boy who grew up to be a successful Las Vegas magician. (All the other “magical” tales here involve gambling.)
If you’re looking for fine words to close out the troubled 2000s, here’s a start:
Cher sets her priorities straight early on, during the only time she speaks to the audience at length.
What would Elvis do? At the risk of adding to longtime confusion between Jesus and pop culture’s deity, Gilles Ste-Croix paraphrased the Christian motto as “the driving force” for Cirque du Soleil’s new “Viva Elvis.”
Everyone seems to think Steve Wyrick’s theater is history — except Wyrick.
My whole career,” Garth Brooks told his fans Saturday night, “you’ve always just let me be me.”
Like a lot of us, Bill Engvall wishes he could take a time machine back to golden-age Vegas: “I would have loved to have been at the level I’m at now back in the ’50s and ’60s,” he noted recently. But it’s Engvall’s Blue Collar Comedy pal, Ron White, who unquestionably would have run with the Rat Pack. White understands that if it was once a matter of course to smoke and drink on a Las Vegas stage, times have changed so much you get laughs just by doing it.
