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Don't Wait For Celine's Return At The Colosseum - Go See Her In Divas Las Vegas Right Now
Cher. Officially amazeballs.
Finally! It’s time for our Divas Las Vegas review. We went to thepremiere last Thursday* to see Frank Marino get his second slab on the Walk of Stars and caught the show in all its feather boa-ed glory.
Now we love drag, we love filthy jokes and we love cheesy pop, so we knew we were going to enjoy this. And it didn’t disappoint.
The show is built as a revue. Marino acts as the MC, and comes onstage to introduce each act. He’s done up as Joan Rivers to start with, and tells some spectacularly filthy jokes; then for each of the “singers”, he comes onstage in a different outfit, tells a couple more jokes and hands over to the performers – of which we counted seven, covering 13 artists. You get your Bette Midler and your Dolly Parton, your Whitney Houston (old style) and your Shirley Bassey, but there are also young ones – Beyonce doing Single Ladies, Madonna’s latest incarnation, Circus-era Britney and Lady Gaga.
And they’re spectacular. The physical resemblance to each is – for the most part – uncanny, their dance routines are spot on and their impersonations are incredible. Our favorites? Britney, obvs, Celine (“at the price you should have paid at Caesars”, as Marino says), Cher (complete with bum tattoo) and Liza Minnelli, who was faultless. The set is skeleton, and there are only a few dancers to jazz it up, but the impersonations are so good that you don’t notice for a minute.
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Eight Things You (Probably) Didn't Know Were In Imperial Palace
As you might remember, we went to the premiere of Divas Las Vegas last Thursday. We’ll bring you the review of the show very soon, but before we get down to the nitty gritty, we thought we’d talk about the place it’s performed in.
Because we’ll go out on a limb here and say no matter how many times you’ve trolled up and down the Strip, we doubt you’ve ventured into Imperial Palace. After all, one look at its exterior is normally what has us saying goodbye.
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Official: Frank Marino Is Twice As Important As Frank Sinatra
Starting to feel a bit sorry for Frank Sinatra here. Not only has Matt Goss nicked his singing kudos, what with all the “new Sinatra” quotes flying around, but now Frank Marino has eclipsed him on the Strip’s Walk of Stars.
Marino opened his drag show Divas Las Vegas last night at the Imperial Palace (when we say “opened”, we mean “officially opened” – it’s been in previews since October), and to celebrate, official Vegas peeps presented him with a slab for the Walk of Stars to go outside the casino.
Not bad. He’s already got a star, outside the Riviera, where his An Evening at La Cage ran for a mammoth 23 years. He’s also got a key to the city (in his own words, “I swear it’s to the back door,”), and a road named after him – Frank Marino Drive (again, in his own words, “it goes both ways”).
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Frugal Harrah's Hotel Rooms Can Be Had for Just $20
We've heard that Harrah’s was offering some pretty sweet deals if you signed up for its "Hot Deals" online. but today we decided to put it to the test to see just how deal-worthy this was.
What you have to do is log onto their site, click on the “Hot Deals” link and enter your email address (they promise not to spam your inbox with a whole lotta crap). Click through to the Las Vegas link and have your pick of the seven properties – Caesars Palace, Bally’s, Rio, Flamingo, Harrah’s, Imperial Palace, or Paris.
For sh*ts and giggles (and since our budget is stretched to the max), we wanted to see where our almighty dollar would get us and how low we could go within the Harrah’s family of hotels, so we clicked on Imperial Palace. Rates ranged from $20-249 a night, with Sunday to Wednesday night stays yielding the lowest rates. We did find super cheap rates for the weekend of December 18th, with rates coming in at $29 for Friday, $35 for Saturday and $20 for Sunday (if you want to milk another day out of reasonable weekend rates).
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Labor Day Insanity: Downtown Is Still The Cheapest
It’s no surprise that rooms are still available for this Labor Day Weekend. But if you plan to make Las Vegas your end-of-summer, last-hurrah destination, you’d do well to book now as room rates are creeping up.
That’s true especially among the middle- and lower-tier properties around town. According to Expedia.com, you can still get a smokin’ deal at properties downtown (average room rate at the The Plaza for the weekend is $45 per night; the El Cortez is $51 per night and the Four Queens is $74 per night), but some of the less desirable places on the Strip have shot up past the $100-per-night mark. Circus Circus alone stands below that benchmark at a reasonable $96 per night for the three-day weekend, while places like Excalibur are going for $124, Imperial Palace for $127 and Sahara for $112.
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The Aussie Boys of 'Human Nature' Are Singing Motown Hits at The Imperial Palace
Where does one of Australia’s top-selling musical groups go when they want to make their Entertainment Capital of the World debut? Evidently, to Vegas’ Imperial Palace.
VegasChatter was a guest at last night’s opening night premiere of "Human Nature – The Ultimate Celebration of Motown" at the IP. After considerable amounts of dancing in the aisles (by the performers and the audience), it looks like the red-headed stepchild in the Harrah’s Entertainment family of Vegas resorts has a crowd-pleaser on its hands.
Produced by Smokey Robinson, who came on stage to sing the praises of the four boys from Sydney, Human Nature specializes in 60s and 70s Motown classics by everyone from Robinson himself to Marvin Gaye to The Supremes. (Supremes vocalist Mary Wilson was in the house last night, too.) Their a cappella version of Robinson’s "Ooo Baby Baby" brought the house down and "My Girl" turned into a theatre-wide singalong.
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Chug-a-Lug at The Imperial Palace
Sandwiched between the Flamingo and Harrah’s smack in the middle of the Strip is the often overlooked Imperial Palace. The name is a bit of a stretch – as one Tripadvisor reviewer put it, it’s "neither imperial nor a palace." 'Nuff said.
In fact, the IP is a value-centric hotel-casino best able to please Vegas visitors who are both budget-conscious and enjoy getting a little rowdy on their vacays. Walls are reputedly thin and the guests tend to be well lubricated, courtesy of onsite watering holes like the Mai Tai Lounge and Shangri-La Bar.
