Brendon Urie of Panic! At the Disco mixed Vegas flair with rock-star flourishes in the band’s exceptional performance for about 13,000 howling devotees.
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Simon Cowell, while praising Emmet’s vocal artistry and song choice, fired the warning shot, “You know the score. We have 18 acts. Seven go through.”
“This will change the Strip, I reckon,” says Spiegelworld founder and “improssario” Ross Mollison. “‘It will be Instagram candy for the Strip. It’ll create a whole new ‘tree-sinct’ for tourists.”
“We had an 8 o’clock show, then a late show at 10 or 11 o’clock, and then we would have movie night,” Todd Fisher recalls. “This was up in one of the old Desert Inn ballrooms. It ran late, but we always found time for these movies.”
Criss Angel was indebted to Rappaport for that 10-year contract, which actually outlasted the man who brokered the deal.
The veteran stand-up comedian is ready for his first Vegas residency since his show at the Flamingo ended in April 2014. “Wallace @ Westgate” opens June 26, with shows at 8 p.m Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Tickets start at $65 and go on sale June 1.
Still big fans of Vegas and frequent headliners on the Strip, ZZ Top begins a five-show spree at Venetian Theater on Friday night.
Cosmopolitan CEO Bill McBeath says, “‘Opium’ is going to have a lot of the nuances and unexpected elements that have been synonymous with Spiegelworld programming.”
Saying, “It’s been a lifelong dream of mine to play Las Vegas,” Lady Gaga has signed her first Las Vegas Strip residency.
In October 2013, a group of Silicon Valley investors purchased Stirling Club for $10.9 million, far below the original $44 million construction cost.
A flu-like illness involving co-star Kendra Wilkinson of “Sex Tips For a Straight Woman From A Gay Man” caused the cancellation of both performances of that show Saturday night.
The long-running Prince tribute band Purple Reign performs Wednesdays through Sundays, sharing the showroom with magic headliner David Goldrake and his 7 p.m. “Imaginarium” production.
The video shows the band in a boxing ring set up in the desert, with cutaway clips of the two combatants, showgirls, bikini-clad ladies on beach chairs, and shirtless actor Jake Hunter next to an old RV.
The real tug in “Circus 1903” is what Willy Whipsnade calls “the root of the circus.”
Apparently, what happens in Oakland, stays in Vegas. The Golden State Warriors were so ubiquitous this weekend I would not have been surprised to run into Draymond Green at the Midway at Circus Circus.
