After playing Dean Martin for years, Michel turned his full focus to Ol’ Blue Eyes and packed the show pavilion at the M Resort with last year’s “Sinatra Forever.”
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Shania Twain is keeping fans waiting again. But at least they have both a present and past tense while waiting on a future album.
If Wendy Williams wants to attempt stand-up comedy for the first time, it’s just a matter of choosing a casino. And The Venetian just happens to be launching a women-of-comedy series “Lipshtick.”
If big, bold experiments in Las Vegas entertainment were unraveling this week, smaller but still-encouraging ones continue.
Watching the rehearsal in front of him, show producer Adam Steck declares, “You gotta have an Aboriginal routine in an Australian show.”
The billboards make them look like magic’s version of “The Avengers.” And they fight their way out of a basement like superheroes, too.
Kenny Loggins is a summer tradition in Las Vegas. And he is all-American enough that he doesn’t even have to sing “America the Beautiful” this Fourth of July weekend, although surely no one could stop him.
Easiest summer job of all time? It’s got to go to Ian Ziering, teaming up with a Chippendales show that doesn’t really need any help. It’s a self-sustaining machine that gives the ladies what they scream for, and quite sensibly, doesn’t give Ziering much to do.
In the late 1990s, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies were part of a wave of retro-swing revivalists sporting tattoos and zoot suits, playing places like the Huntridge Theater to take Las Vegas back to its Louis Prima years.
If your Fourth of July songbook begins with “The Stars and Stripes Forever” and ends with “America the Beautiful,” Clint Holmes, The Smith Center’s resident headliner at Cabaret Jazz, has a few other suggestions for you.
Donnie Wahlberg says the New Kids On The Block don’t mind tire-kicking the idea of becoming Las Vegas headliners.
The legal dispute between Mirage headliner Terry Fator and former manager John McEntee is back in court, nearly four years after they reached a settlement.
Figuring out how to get the club demographic to buy show tickets is still a bit of a mystery. But one thing isn’t.
“What happens in this business is you don’t get it at all and then you get it all at once and then it goes away. It’s terrifying,” says the comedian.
New York City rockers The Strokes come to The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Aug. 20, with Albert Hammond Jr.