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| Sunday, July 4, 2004 | PRIOR ISSUE - ARCHIVES |
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| Queen Set To Rock You, 'Saturday Night Fever' Disco, The King's Life Celebrated, Bobby Flay Moves Into Caesars, "Avenue Q" May Open Wynn Las Vegas, Bob Newhart Hits Town, "American Freedom" Debuts, Dixie Dooley Gets New Digs, Win A "Legends In Concert" Audition, Comdex Cancelled, Adventuredome Adds Thrill, Patio Daddy O's Serves Outside, Brunswick Bowling Center Planned, Wildlife Habitat Is Penguin Paradise, More... | |
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The opening date for "We Will Rock You," the musical based on the music of the legendary '70s rock band Queen, has been set for Aug. 16. The show will be making its North American debut in Paris' 1,450-seat Le Théâtre des Arts. Tickets are on sale and priced at $80.50, $97 and $113.50 inclusive, call 702-946-4567 or 877 ROCK SHOW.
"We Will Rock You" features 20 of Queen's greatest hits performed in a rock theatrical stage show. The show debuted in London in 2002, where it continues to play to sold-out crowds and is also a hit in Australia and Spain, where the show recently opened.
The Sahara's new show The show at the Sahara runs 100 minutes and focuses heavily on the contagious disco dancing. Even though the story has a fairly heavy plot, it stays on the lighter side with big crowd-pleasing dance numbers. It's a show well worth seeing.
The Cannery located in North Las Vegas will present Celebration Of The King's Life - "The American Trilogy Show" with The Sweet Inspirations and The Stamps Quartet, Elvis Presley's backup singers from 1969-1977, at The Club on Aug. 13 and 14 at 8:30 p.m. There will also be pre-show story-telling and a meet and greet with special friends of Elvis at 5 p.m. Admission is $14.95 plus tax.
Paul Casey will be playing the young and older Elvis. Casey will be joined by many of Elvis' lifetime associates such as his photographer and tour manager and his bodyguard who will help tell the King's story.
Thursday evening Stephen Christopher, an Elvis expert licensed by the Elvis Presley Estate, will provide commentary about superstar's life. He will also host "An Evening with Elvii," an Elvis karaoke contest, on Thursday, Aug. 12 at 7 p.m. The winner will be named the "King of Las Vegas" and win a Graceland Trip that consists of a two-night stay at The Heartbreak Hotel, dinner at one of Elvis' favorite dinning spots and VIP passes to Graceland. This event is free and open to the public.
Other activities throughout the weekend will include memorabilia dealers and fan club displays, exact replicas of Elvis' favorite Stutz Blackhawk automobiles and the Cannery Row Buffet hosting a special "Food that fed the King" section highlighting Elvis' favorite dishes including the fried peanut butter and mashed banana sandwich.
The LIGHT Group has opened its first restaurant venture, FIX, at Bellagio. At FIX, guests experience both "the scene and cuisine," savoring an approachable, high-quality menu in a cutting edge environment that feels at once intimate and expansive.
FIX is perfect for a pre-show dinner or a late-night dining experience with a menu offering the best in classic American fare cooked to order on a wood-burning grill.
The exquisite space, constructed almost entirely of Costa Rican Padouk wood forming a wavy ceiling and dramatic floor has been designed by Graft Lab of Berlin to create a unique and vibrant design. The restaurant seats about 150 people with a bar area for about 50 and a private dining room for 12 to 25 guests. FIX is open Sunday-Thursday, 5 p.m. - midnight and until 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.
ISLA Mexican Kitchen & Tequila Bar is opened at TI. Owner Mexico City-born Richard Sandoval is fresh off his successful New York City launch of Pampano, one of Esquire's "best new restaurants in America" in 2003. At his new 180-seat ISLA restaurant, Chef Sandoval is exploring traditional Mexican cuisine while infusing it with a modern flair.
Designed by award-winning international designer Jeffrey Beers, the new restaurant, which is Sandoval's first in Las Vegas, carries the theme of modern Mexican from the kitchen into the entire space, combining playful colors with rich, dark hues, teak chaises and unique works of art by Mexican artist Paul Birbil. The front lounge area sits right off the casino floor and is separated only by a railing. The dining area is situated behind the bar.
A couple of the restaurant's highlights include a custom-designed roving cart serving fresh-made guacamole and the Tequila Bar featuring one of Las Vegas' most impressive selections of tequilas. ISLA is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.
The branch of Rosemary's restaurant at the Rio has closed. The original Rosemary's on W. Sahara Ave. is still open.
Andre Rochat will be opening another restaurant on Aug. 1, at the Las Vegas Hilton. Mistral is taking over the space that was occupied by Le Montrachet.
Chinois at The Forum Shops has had a minor sophisticated facelift that includes the separation of the kitchen from the dining room and a new title, Chinois Chinese Fusion Wolfgang Puck Restaurant. The exterior has new banner-like signage.
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Bobby Flay's restaurant Mesa Grill at Caesars Palace is occupying the space that formerly housed Caesars Buffet and may open in September. The new Wynn Las Vegas is now suppose to have four nightclubs starting with La Bete, French for "The Beast" and the ultra-lounge Lure in the main tower. On the restaurant side, French Chef Daniel Boulud. who made his mark in New York with Le Cirque, Daniel's and Café Boulud, will open his first Vegas spot. There will also be a Russian-themed Red8 restaurant, an upscale Steak House named SW and the sports book deli Zoozacrackers. The word on the street is that Steve Wynn may commandeer this year's Tony Award winning musical "Avenue Q" and have it open at Wynn Las Vegas next summer. The big catch is that the exclusive deal won't allow the show to go on tour. It can only play in New York while its West Coast counterpart is in Las Vegas. The seven-member cast production is an adult social parody of "Sesame Street" complete with puppets. Nice to see Bob Newhart will be playing Las Vegas again this week July 7-10. He's appearing at the Stardust where many old time headliners are making the marquee list including Tim Conway and Harvey Korman, July 14-17, and Don Rickles, July 22-25 and Oct. 14-17. "American Freedom" is the third Viva Vision light show to debut at the Fremont Street Experience on the giant outdoor canopy in the last four weeks, with "Area 51" an outer space adventure and "The Drop" a mythical undersea journey having premiered last month. Magician and Illusionist Dixie Dooley, who has been performing in Las Vegas for over 25 years. will take over the 8:30 p.m. time slots in the Le Bistro Theatre every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, beginning July 8. Tickets are $24.95 plus and tax and fee and you must be at least six years old to attend, call 702-794-9433. Dooley is the world's leading performing authority on the life and times of magician Harry Houdini. While performing at Bourbon Street, he conducted the first Houdini séance in Las Vegas. In 1989, Dooley appeared at the Grand Opening of the Houdini Museum in Appleton, Wisconsin and performed the upside-down strait jacket escape. The Stardust is running a Karaoke contest every Friday night in the Starlight Lounge from 6 to 10 p.m. There's a $50 prize for both the best male and female singers and a $100 cash drawing for all contestants. The Imperial Palace holds a "Be A Legend" - Amateur Celebrity Impersonator Karaoke Contest on the third Thursday of every month at the hotel's Strip-front Karaoke Club at Tequila Joe's. The winner takes home the top prize of $500 and an audition with the hotel's signature show, "Legends In Concert." Second place wins $250 and third get $100. The monthly contest is free and open to the public. For the first time since its creation in 1979 by Sheldon Adelson, who now owns the Venetian, Comdex is being cancelled this year. The technology industry's mega-convention plans to reshape the tradeshow and return in November 2005. Comdex peaked in 1998 with 220,000-plus delegates and bottomed out with only 51,000 delegates in 2003. Circus Circus Adventuredome has added a new thrill ride that shoots riders up and down a 100-foot tower. The Sling Shot, one of only six in the United States, has riders experiencing the force of 4 Gs on the way up and 1 G on the way down. The $1.2 million Sling Shot has joined 23 existing rides at the indoor theme park, which was ranked 11th in visitor volume among all the theme parks in North America. For the past three years, one new ride has been added to the Adventuredome that was opened in 1992. Robert Frey will be opening his fourth nightclub property in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace in the space that was formerly the Magical Empire. Plans are for Touch to be open by New Year's Eve. His other clubs are Coyote Ugly at New York, New York, Bikini's at the Rio and the soon to be opened Tangerine at TI. Like patio / outdoor dining on the Strip? Patio Daddy O's is located on the patio of Seven on the Strip. The staff wears white polo shirts and white shorts and at 7:30 p.m. the tables get pulled away to make room for futons. Sunset Station in Henderson is putting in a $23 million, 72-lane Brunswick Bowling Center that will open in mid-February with locker rooms, a bar, concession area and pro shop. The Wildlife Habitat at Flamingo Las Vegas is nestled within a 15-acre tropical paradise that is home to four pools, two whirlpool spas, waterslides, waterfalls, lush tropical landscaping, a bar and grille, four tennis courts, lagoons filled with Japanese koi, ducks and swans. Inhabitants of the Flamingo Wildlife Habitat include African penguins, a flock of Chilean flamingos, Gambel's quail, African crowned crane, pheasants, helmeted guineafowl, several varieties of ducks and swans, Japanese koi fish, grass carp, sacred ibises, macaws, cockatoos, chub minnows, albino channel catfish and water turtles, all of which are carefully tended to by experts. The Flamingo Las Vegas belongs to the Species Survival Program, affiliated with the American Zoos, Parks and Aquariums association. The program's management group plans future generations of African penguins after comparing the genetics of those held in zoos around the world, with the goal of maintaining a genetically diverse and strong population. African penguins are a "threatened" species, which is one step away from the "endangered" rating. Flamingo Las Vegas now has 13 African penguins.
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