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| Sunday, June 17, 2001 | PRIOR ISSUE - ARCHIVES |
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| Janet Jackson, Lynyrd Skynrd, Boulder Dam Hotel, Splash, Fred Travalena, Louie Anderson, In-Room Gambling, Go-Go's, Indigo Girls, More... | |
Four-time Grammy Award winning superstar Janet Jackson will bring her "All For You World Tour" to the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday, Oct. 6, with special guest 112. Jackson's latest CD entitled "All For You" is the latest landmark in an eclectic career that has touched pop, rock, R&B and hip-hop audiences.
Tickets for this event are $125.25, $75.25 and $45.25 plus applicable service charges. Call 1-800-929-1111. A portion of the ticket price will benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. This is a special story. The 30,000 square-foot, three-story Boulder Dam Hotel in the historic Boulder City downtown area, after an eight-year restoration effort costing more than $2 million, has been returned to its 1930's heyday splendor. Immediately recognizable with its Dutch Colonial architecture, the landmark hotel inside makes a grand statement with14-foot ceilings, and a lobby with hardwood floors made of heart pine wood and rare southern gumwood interior. During the remodeling, the Boulder Dam Hotel was converted from 83 to 22 guestrooms with private bathrooms that have been reopened. Guests can pay anywhere from $109 to $179 for a night's stay. Part of the package will be a gift basket with a fresh-baked cookie, some chocolate, passes to the city museum and a free breakfast. The real fun will be staying in a hotel where famous celebrities like Bette Davis, Will Rogers, Shirley Temple, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Robert Taylor and Fred MacMurray once stayed. Boulder City is even today the only city in Nevada where gambling isn't legal and it's home to Hoover Dam. Comic/impressionist/singer Fred Travalena whose repertoire includes parodies of more than 350 personalities will appear in the 920-seat Wayne Newton Theater at the Stardust, June 22-23. He's taking over for the resort's resident headliner Newton, who will be taking a two-day break from his current six-week engagement. Tickets to Travalena's 8 p.m. shows are $24.95 with tax, tip and one beverage included.
Travalena's impersonations include personalities from the movies, television, the music business and politics. He does every America president from Kennedy to Bush and has performed for several of them including Bush's Inaugural festivities last January. He's well known for dramatizing such bizarre fantasies as a White House conversation between Walter Matthau as the president and Jack Lemon as his vice president, and John Wayne singing songs from "Phantom of the Opera." A newly formed subsidiary of Station Casinos will offer a computerized, in-room gaming system that it will market to competing casino companies. This move could pave the way for the company's entry into online gambling. The system will allow a guest to sit in his room or out by the pool and play a real game, not a virtual game. Customers deposit money into personal accounts before using the GameCast system. Station Casinos plans to place GameCast remotes in many of its 2,728 rooms, and market the product for a licensing fee to competing companies. The first GameCast products may be installed next year. For the second month in a row, Emmy Award-winning comic Louie Anderson, who is now the current host of the nationally syndicated show, "New Family Feud," will appear in concert at the Top of the Riv Ballroom, July 2-6. His stand-up comedy routines focus around contemporary observations on obesity, alcoholism, fame, success and family. Currently, Anderson is proud of the publication of a series of children's books based on the cartoon series, "Life With Louie." For 17 years, Anderson's animated series entitled, "Life With Louie," has been on FOX. The series highlights his writing and voice-over talents as the narrator. Tickets for Anderson's shows are $30 plus taxes, call 702-794-9433. Mary Chapin Carpenter will sing at the new Cox Pavilion on the University of Nevada-Las Vegas campus on July 27. Tickets are $37. The Mandalay Bay Beach outdoor concert series has the Indigo Girls booked on July 27 and the Go-Go's set to perform on Aug. 18. Tickets for both shows are $35 in advance and $40 on the day of the show. Amazing, a visitor from Hawaii recently hit a $1 million keno ticket at the Fremont Hotel & Casino downtown. He played the minimum of five games at $1 per game and on the third one each of his ten lucky numbers came up. The gentleman played his children's birthdates.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd and Ted Nugent will play the Mandalay Bay Events Center of Aug. 11. Tickets are $20 and $39.50, call 702-632-7600. The topping off ceremonies were recently held for the 42-story, $265 million Palms hotel-casino on Flamingo Road across the street from the Gold Coast. Scheduled to open in December, the resort will have 455 rooms, a 14-theater movie complex, a 1,200-seat multi-use entertainment venue and a 95,000-square-foot casino. Legendary four-time world champion Johnny Tapia will take on former World Boxing Council featherweight titleholder Cesar "Cobrita" Soto in the main event of a Don King Productions-promoted card at the Mandalay Bay Events on June 30. Tickets are $100, $50 and $25, call 1-877-632-7400 or 702-632-7580. The co-feature, World Boxing Organization junior welterweight champion Ener Julio will defend his title against No. 9-ranked contender Felix Flores. The event will also include a 10-round bout between two-time world champion Danny Romero and former International Boxing Federation super flyweight champion Ratanachai Vorapin. As of July 2, "Splash" at the Riviera will raise its prices to $51.50 regular admission, and $65.18 for limited booth seating. As one of the longest-running lavish production shows in Las Vegas, "Splash" features the famous ice skaters - 1998 American Open Figure Skating Pro championship Gold and Bronze Medallists Irina Grigorian and Mikhail Panin along with World Silver Medallist Cindy Landry-Davis.
On Sunday, July 1, the 7:30 p.m. performance of "Splash" at the Riviera will be a fundraiser for Child Haven, a temporary shelter for abused, neglected or abandoned children. Tickets will be $60 with taxes, fees and one drink included and $30 for children. This special show will be covered so children can attend. For information, call 702-794-9433. Harrah's Las Vegas has garnered record 18 first-place awards in numerous publications. In "Casino Player" magazine's 2001 "Best of Gaming Issue," Harrah's won top placement in 18 categories. Harrah's also won recognition in other publications including the "Las Vegas Review Journal" newspaper and tourist magazines "What's On" and "Where" magazine. Turnberry Associates is building Madison Towers, a $250 million high-rise condominium community consisting of two 28-story towers on Paradise Road and Karen Avenue behind the Wet 'n Wild water park and the Sahara Hotel. Priced from$300,000 to more than $700,000, the one-, two- and three-bedroom tower residents will range in size from 1,000 to 1,835 square feet. Groundbreaking for the first tower is scheduled this summer and completion is set for early 2003. You can learn more about the 608 Madison Towers residences by visiting the 6,000 square-foot sales pavilion, which is open at the site every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The gated community will have 24-hour manned entry with a super-sized outdoor swimming pool with Whirlpool spa, a state-of-the-art exercise and fitness center and two tennis courts. For more information, call 702-836-9100. This week "La Femme" made its debut at the MGM Grand with 14 dancers from Paris' original Crazy Horse dance troupe. The ladies received the royal treatment when they arrived earlier this month on Kirk Kerkorian's high-roller jet and were greeted by Las Vegas ambassadors Siegfried and Roy. Collectively the troupe represents seven countries. James Stephens III who is versatile as a comedian/actor/impressionist/musician will take the stage at The Improv at Harrah's from Jul 3-8, with two fellow comedians. Tickets re $24.95 plus tax. Giving up law school to become a stand-up comic and with Fred Travalena's encouragment, Stephens went to Hollywood. Showtime was searching the country for 10 top comedians to feature on "The Comedy Club Network," and the network handpicked him. Accomplished in five musical instruments, the talented Stephens also delivers an eclectic catalogue of musical voices, ranging from Louis Armstrong to Elvis. Gary Delena and two other comedians will be making people laugh at Bob Kephart's Comedy Stop at the Tropicana this week, June 18-24. Tickets are $17.50 with tax, gratuity and two drinks included, call 702-739-2714. The Brooklyn native at one time was trying to make ends meet by singing and playing guitar bars. Delena decided to audition at Rodney Dangerfield's comedy club and won the audition. The next night he was opening for Jackie Mason. Delena has just signed a multi-year contract with Disney's Cruise Line. In the early 1980s, he wrote for the "National Lampoon" magazine and performed with its touring comedy show.
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Her latest single "All For You" exploded onto the charts as the highest debuting non-commercially available single in the land. According to "Radio & Records" magazine, the single set a new recording industry mark by receiving airplay from a majority of the reporting stations in the country.
Travalena is singing now using his own voice. He recently released a CD, "We All Need Love Today," featuring 11 original songs, all with a "love" theme - first love, love of country, family, children and more. Last year, he wrote 12 new songs about Manhattan for a CD entitled "The Manhattan Christmas Suite."
Also included in every show are the death-defying Guinness World Record holders Bela Tabak's Riders of the Tunderdome. Four daredevil motorcycles race around a 14-foot sphere of metal mesh referred to at "The Globe of Earth" at breakneck speeds. During the summer beginning July 7, "Splash" will present one family covered show at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday nights.