ENTERTAINMENT: Lennon tribute closing

The John Lennon tribute “Just Imagine” will have its final show Saturday at Planet Hollywood, not quite four weeks into a planned three-month run.

The show is produced by  Mary Card and Nick LaTrenta, who rented space from the Planet Hollywood theater’s operator, Base Entertainment. It seemed a little over-optimistic to put the tribute born in a 100-seat North Hollywood playhouse into the 1,400-seat Chi Showroom.

Before the closing announcment, the show’s star, Tim Piper, also had cited pressure from Sony/ATV Music Publishing, which controls the Lennon song catalog.

Nevada has legislation specifically designed to protect “Legends”-style live performances, but its easy to “imagine” the Beatles as a business entity and their separate estates riding hard on any competition to the officially sanctioned “Love” show.

Roommate production "Peepshow" will expand from six to seven performances a week, adding an earlier performance on Saturdays. Any hopes of a return residency for a live "America's Got Talent" production seem dashed by Thursday's news that "Talent" will tour this year instead, with one Las Vegas stop at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.