The musical “Baz — A Musical Tour de Force” is closing after its July 29 performance at The Palazzo Theater. Actors Equity Producer and General Manager Blair Farrington informed the cast just prior to Tuesday’s 8 p.m. performance.
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Tegan Summer ran a few minutes late for a meeting over coffee on Monday afternoon. He was knocked off schedule as he helped a woman who had tumbled near the Las Vegas Strip. Summer himself couldn’t have written a more appropriate metaphor.
Members of the creative team were informed via e-mail that the show’s closing would indeed fall on June 17, and that those who had not been fully paid have been assured they would be fully compensated for their final two weeks of work.
Down 3-1 in the Stanley Cup Final, the Vegas Golden Knights can use a boost. Maybe a wild fan can dance down the aisle at T-Mobile Arena at Thursday’s Game 5, tearing off multiple T-shirts and cajoling the crowd to “Make Some Noise!”
This week, Barry Manilow has been rehearsing for his Westgate residency production, which is opening for previews Thursday night.
Celine wore Golden Knights jersey No. 29 for Marc-Andre Fleury while singing “River Deep/Mountain High.”
“Absinthe” has just signed a contract extension with Caesars Palace to to perform at that hotel for at least two more years.
Golden Knights’ feverish playoff run inspired the band to change the lyrics of that tune, and ride the expansion team’s unlikely playoff success.
Once one of the hottest shows in the city, “Tony n’ Tina’s” opened at the Rio in 2005. The show moved to V Theater at Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood, then the mezzanine level of Planet Hollywood, and finally Windows Showroom at Bally’s, where the show was most recently performed.
Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly glanced at Gazillionaire and Wanda Widdles and said, “What kind of assignment did I get myself into today?”
“Can you believe, this? I’m as old as the (expletive) hills and I’m starting another residency in Las Vegas,” says Barry Manilow, whose grand opening for “Barry Manilow Las Vegas: The Hits Come Home” coincides with his 75th birthday.
Oscar Goodman is to work as understudy for lead narrator Michael Franzese, the longtime Colombo crime family overlord who has since reformed as a popular motivational speaker.
The Stray Cats’ reunion, which along with ZZ Top at The Venetian, is a weekend pairing of great rock ‘n’ roll trios in VegasVille.
Maynard Tompkins, Fator’s warbling Elvis tribute artist and a fan favorite in his show at the Mirage, opened Terry Fator’s set on “Showtime at the Apollo.”
Employing satirized sci-fi as its backdrop, “Opium” has opened at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. The show is performed in hotel’s upper cosmos, or in this case the second-level Opium Theatre at Rose. Rabbit. Lie.