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Still No Verdict On Tom Lowe's 'Vegas! The Show' Status, But At Least He's On iTunes

Thx for the offer, don’t mind if we do

It’s been a couple of months now that we’ve been mourning the mysterious exit from Vegas! The Show of VC’s favored Strip performer, Mr Tom Lowe. Will he return? We’ve been investigating every single alley open and half-open for a definitive answer, but have yet to receive one that doesn't contradict another. But we're taking that as a good sign and are crossing our fingers that he has not left the Saxe Theater forever.

In the meantime, as we were idly stalking his website the other day, we couldn’t help but notice that he seems to have moved on from VTS with a new single on YouTube. A single! Eee! Talk about reliving the heady days of 1996 when he was a proper bona fide boyband popstar.

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Yes, Virginia There Is A Tom Lowe (But Where Is He?)

Who needs a white beard and red suit when this is the line for your lap?

While we had already given the VegasChatter stamp of approval to Vegas! The Show, stalked tracked down its star Tom Lowe for his take on the city, and even made sure the show appealed to the boys, this dude of VC finally sat in on the show himself for the first time over the weekend.

The good news is that this piece of VC also really liked the show. To us, however, the star of the show appeared to be Eric Jordan Young for whom the VTS lights shone brightly on from the opening monologue inside the Neon Boneyard through his Sammy Davis, Jr. tribute. Actually let’s call him "the lead" since the stars of the show are still far and away tap dancing twins Sean and John Scott.

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Next To Jump On the Sinatra Bandwagon: Wynn Reveals Its New Show

Fact you might not know – December 12 would be Frank Sinatra’s 95th birthday. And to honor it, as if we couldn’t already move for Sinatra impersonators/tribute acts/honest-guv-I’m-not-trying-to-be-Frank-I-just-like-the-era acts, Wynn has decided to introduce another Frank show into the fold.

SINATRA Dance With Me combines Sinatra and dancing (hey, haven’t we already seen that? Everywhere?) and is “conceived, choreographed and directed” by movie and Broadway veteran Twyla Tharp. It’ll be one of those shows where the plot is foisted on the music – in this case, about four couples who fall in and out of love at a “swinging nightclub” (we assume they mean “hot” – a swinging nightclub would be a bit too scandalous for Wynn, unless Justparties has anything to do with it).

The show will include recordings of Sinatra himself, which will be backed by a 17 piece band live on stage.

Apparently Steve Wynn was so excited that he had this to say about the show:

We will present an extraordinary evening of Frank Sinatra – his words and music set to incredible movement by Twyla Tharp. This mesmerizing treatment of the man and his music moves with an intense, electrifying fascination.

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He Hates XS But Loves Excess: Here's Tom Lowe's Vegas

Another Wednesday, another My Vegas. It’s hard trying to keep tabs on all the happenin’ stuff in Sin City, so we’re calling in expert advice. From now on, every time we bump into a Vegas celeb, we’ll grill them on where they rate and what they like to do (yes, handily, this can also double as a stalker’s guide to Vegas).

You already know we heart Vegas! the Show and you probably have an inkling that we heart its star Tom Lowe just a little bit more. We still think he has the best back story in Vegas, so we took the opportunity to squeeze some more tidbits out of him about his favorite haunts. This is where you’ll find him (although you may need to break the law to do so. And in this case, VegasChatter totally condones lawlessness).

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Tap Dancing Twins, Vegas Ghosts and A British Elvis: Why We're Fans Of Vegas! The Show

Tom Jones/Lowe and some of his harem

We love our readers here at VegasChatter. We love you for reading, for commenting and for suggesting what we should write about. And today we’re loving @metaljohnradio who tweeted us yesterday saying how much he loved Vegas! The Show. Not just because he shares our taste, but also because it reminded us that we never got around to processing our thoughts once we saw the show on one of its many “opening nights” last month.

Thankfully, it had changed a lot since we sat in on the rehearsal in June. It didn’t take three hours, for a start – it’s down to 90 minutes. And some of the dodgy costume choices for the dancers had gone. They now look pretty-sexy, rather than cheap-sexy.

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It's Going to be Angel's World Until It's (Hopefully) Holly's World Again

100% truefax: From our experience, Angel has a ‘tude on red carpets. Holly doesn’t. We’re Team Madison.

Wowzas. Just as poor Holly Madison is slaving away signing shoes for charity at a shoe convention, out comes the news that while she takes her long-due vacation, from September 13 – 19, she’ll be replaced as Bo Peep by Miss Angel Porrino.

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From Boy Band Stardom to Vegas! The Show: The D-Low(e) on Sin City's Newest Star

Tom Lowe. Only In Vegas.

Here at VegasChatter we are very excited about Thursday. Because it’s nearly the weekend? No. Because ladies drink free at Rock House? Not even. Thursday, ladies and gents, is the official opening of Vegas! The Show. And that means the official unveiling of our new favorite Vegas performer, Tom Lowe.

We first noticed the Lowe when we attended the dress rehearsal for VTS and couldn’t help noticing that as well as being English, he was rather well endowed with the whole singing skillz + charisma package. The proof: six weeks on, we still remember which Vegas characters he took off (Elvis, Frank, Elton and Tom Jones FYI) but the others are something of a blur. When even our friend who hearts Buble but (inexplicably) doesn’t dig Matt Goss (yes we’re still friends – we are nothing if not indulgent) gave him her seal of approval, we knew the Saxe Theater is in possession of something special.

So we decided to stalk investigate him. And having finally got some time with him on Saturday, as well as noting that he possesses the Best Laugh in Vegas and curiously un-English nice white teeth (more on those another time), we realized that with a back story like this, he could only ever end up in Vegas.

It’s a long story, which we shall separate into four acts. If you have ADD, you can follow his life through the marvel that is YouTube.

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Vegas! The Show May Not Be There Yet, But At Least It's Self Aware

Here’s an idea. Why not make Tom Lowe sing all the songs? Reva Rice can join in too - that would fix it

You may remember our surprise a couple of weeks back at the fact that we were pleasantly surprised by Vegas! The Show when we snuck into its dress rehearsal.

We thought there was definitely some talent on display, but we also thought they had a lot to smooth out before opening night – the next night. Las Vegas Weekly, who sat in with us, waxed lyrical on the, um, “organized chaos” here.

We assumed that with the show having to go on etc etc, they’d have smoothed it all out for the opening performance. Indeed, Johnny Kats was at opening night and although he noticed the crew still painting the set, didn’t mention any big problems. So we assumed that David Saxe et al had broken all the legs that needed to be broken and got together a fine show.

Alas, not so, according to a friend of VegasChatter who saw the show in its week. Apparently it’s still running overtime – 90 minutes instead of 75 – and it’s still patchy. So patchy, in fact, that David Saxe gave every single member of the audience a glass of champagne and a free ticket to come back and see the show at a later date, when it’s "ready". Apparently, he’d been doing that since opening night - although we think that may have been an offer limited to the first week only.

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Against All the Odds, We Have High Hopes For Vegas! The Show

The set for the opening scene, random showgirl, and random man on set (it was a rehearsal, remember)

We’ve been fairly vocal about our excitement over Vegas! The Show – the new offering at the equally new Saxe Theater. Seeing as it was promising showgirls, a full orchestra and as much Vegas shizzle as you could shake said shizzle at, we were hoping that it would either be very, very good or so bad it was actually brilliant. In fact, if we’re being honest, we were hoping for the latter. They haven’t had long to rehearse, after all, it’s a small theater, plus the fact that we’d always go for Showgirls over Leaving Las Vegas should tell you all you need to know about our “ironic”* taste in films (*actually, scratch the irony excuse - let's be shameless in our love of cheese).

Anyways, as you’ll know, it opened Saturday. It’s now in a soft opening until press night at the end of July, but we snuck into the dress rehearsal on Friday night to see what was in store.

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