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| Sunday, June 24, 2001 | PRIOR ISSUE - ARCHIVES |
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| "Les Miserables", Boosler & Tenuta, ESPN Zone, REO Speedwagon, Alternative World Sports Cup, Energy Rebate, Neon Museum, More... | |
"Les Miserables," winner of 50 major awards internationally, including the 1987 Tony Award for Best Musical, is booked at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts, Sept. 19-23. The musical is now in its 16th year in London and 15th years on Broadway.
The $4.2 million production coming to Las Vegas replicates the Broadway production in its entirety. It comes to town with the trademark 34-foot turntable, two barricades that weigh over 12,000 pounds, over 1,000 costumes, five fog machines, 422 lighting instruments, 18 orchestra members and 36 cast members. Tickets are on sale now and range from $30 to $90, call 1-866-477-6267 or 702-785-5000. For more information, visit the official "Les Miserables" internet web site: www.lesmis.com. Two extremely funny ladies, Elayne Boosler and Judy Tenuta, will share the Paris Le Theatre des Arts stage, July 3-7. Tickets are $42, call 1-877-374-7469 or 702-946-4567.
The country's seventh ESPN Zone will be opening July 20 in New York-New York. The restaurant part of the establishment will be the Studio Grill. The Screening Room will be the place where you go to watch sports and the Sports Arena will be where you go to play sports. There will be 10,000 square-feet of interactive games and attractions. Undefeated "Sugar" Shane Mostly will defend his WBC welterweight championship against Arian Stone at Caesars Palace on Saturday, July 21. The 12-round bout will be Mosley's third title defense since capturing the championship from Oscar De La Hoya on June 17, 2000 in Los Angeles. This will be the 160th world title bout in Caesars' 35-year history. The 29-year-old Mosley from Pomona, Calif., has a record of 37-0 with 34 knockouts. Selected as the WBC's Fighter of the Year for 2000, Mosley generally is acknowledged as one of the top three fighters in the world, pound-for pound. On March 10, 2001, Mosley defended his title again, stopping Shannan Taylor the fifth round at Caesars Palace. Adrian "The Predator" Stone from Bristol, England has a ring record of 30-3-2 with 23 knockouts. He will celebrate his 30th birthday two days before the fight. He won the International Boxing Organization light middleweight champion title in April 2000 and has defended it successfully three times. The world championship card at Caesars Palace Pavilion starts at 4:30 p.m. on July 21. The event will be televised on HBO's "World Championship Boxing" beginning at 6 p.m. (PDT). Tickets are priced at $50, $100, $200 and $300 plus a $3 ticket handling fee, call 1-800-634-6698 or 702-731-7865. Lynyrd Skynyrd and Ted Nugent are set for a concert at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Saturday, Aug. 11. Tickets are $20 and $39.50, call 1-877-632-7400 or 702-632-7580. Lynyrd Skynyrd has upheld their signature sound of harmonious guitar-driven rock combined with deep southern blues carried throughout their melodies and lyrics for nearly 30 years. Their latest album releases, "Then and Now" and "Edge of Forever," display the band's musical progression which now spans three generations of rock and roll fans. Since embarking on his solo career in 1976, Nugent has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and he sometimes averages 300 live performances a year. Nugent is best known for his wild stage antics and ear piercing vocals. The Plaza downtown opened the newest Bingo Room in Las Vegas this month. Eight sessions are held daily beginning at 9 a.m. with the final session at 11 p.m. There are super progressive bonanza jackpots every session with a $1,000 bonanza consolation guaranteed at six of the sessions. After headlining Mandalay Bay's first outdoor Bay Rock beach concert series in 1999, Reo Speedwagon will return on Friday, June 29. They'll perform an extensive musical set of favorites such as "Keep Pushin'," 'Ridin' the Storm Out," "I Can't Fight This Feeling," "and "Keep On Loving You." Concert-goers can bring their blankets and sit on the beach or wade into the surf provided by the famous 1.6 million-gallon wavepool. For ticket information, call 702-474-4000.
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The Alternative Sports World Cup (ASWC), Fox Sports Net and the MGM Grand have joined forces to celebrate alternative sports in an Olympic-style competition to be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Aug. 3-5 from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. The three-day ASWC will boast a total prize purse of nearly $1 million with $20,000 first-prize awards in each event. More than 30,000 spectators and a national cable television audience will watch 220 international athletes from 16 countries compete in 14 disciplines. Featured events include freestyle motorcross and trials, street, vertical and downhill skateboarding, freestyle vertical, dirt and street bike riding, mountain bike criterium racing and street luge. In addition, spectators have the opportunity to enjoy the "Rock and Ride" event in The Park at MGM Grand with attractions and a "battle of the bands." The event will feature eight of the nation's top unsigned music performers competing for a first-prize record contract with a major music label. Tickets to the ASWC are on sale, call 702-474-4000. Tickets range from individual "Rock and Ride" tickets at $15 up to season tickets with "Rock and Ride" admission included priced at $119.50. Stand-up comedy actor Johnny Dark will bring his subtle humor to the Riviera Comedy Club, July 16-22. Dark has toured the world with top name entertainers such as Shirley MacLaine, Engelbert Humperdinck, Andy Williams, Mac Davis and Della Reese. Besides appearing on many syndicated talk shows, Dark has made many network television appearances in series like "Growing Pains," "Just the Ten of Us," "Touched By An Angel," and "Superior Court." Two fellow comedians will join Dark. Tickets are $16.95 plus taxes, call 702-794-9433. In a tourist city, there can never be too much shopping. Chelsea Property Group Inc., owner and/or part owner of 27 outlet malls in 15 states and Japan proposes plans to build an outlet shopping center in the downtown area of Las Vegas. The Tropicana is releasing two new chips in the casino's commemorative chip line. The Wimbledon 2001 became available this past week and the 4th of July 2001 chip will be available on June 28. These are the third and fourth chips, respectively, in the 2001 series. Previously chips this year were produced to celebrate the Kentucky Derby and the 9th Annual Casino Chips & Gambling Tokens Collectors Club Convention held May 31 - June 2. The Tropicana began releasing commemorate chips in 1994 with a Super Bowl chip. Since then, several chips have been released every year. Additional chip issues this year will include chips celebrating the World Series, National Finals Rodeo, Halloween, Christmas and New Year 2002. For more information, call Alex Montanarella at 702-739-2566. The limited quantity $5 chips are available from the Casino Cage. The Castaways (formerly the Showboat) on the Boulder Strip is bucking the trend of charging a small energy surcharge like many of the resorts are doing. Instead, the Castaways is offering hotel guests a $20 energy rebate on Sunday through Thursday per-night hotel $49 room rates. The offer includes a free express breakfast buffet served from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the hotel's 24-hour Pelican Rock Cafe. To book a reservation, call 1-800-634-3484. Van Halen fans will get to see two of the group's frontmen this summer. David Lee Roth will appear at Sunset Station this summer on July 3, and Sammy Hagar will follow on Sept. 1. There will be a "Casino de Paris" reunion at Bally's on Sept. 8. The Dunes' show had a 19-year run, from 1963 to 1981. Plans are continuing to further develop downtown's Neon Museum with a future site planned for an open-air courtyard with at least 50 neon signs, called a "Boneyard." Across the street, from the courtyard, plans call for building the Neon Museum and Visitors Center, which would be connected, to the Boneyard by a pedestrian walkway. In addition, the complex would offer a cafe, library, retail shop and a warehouse demonstration building. This project could become the largest assembly of historical urban signs in the world. On Nov. 15, 1996, the organization installed its first piece, the famous Hacienda Horse and Rider, at the corner of Las Vegas Blvd. and Fremont Street. Since then, the number of restored signs on Fremont Street has grown to include the Anderson Dairy Milkman, the Flame Restaurant, Aladdin's Lamp, Dots Flowers and the Red Barn. The Angel Park Golf Club's Mountain course is planning to extend the lake separating the ninth and 18th holes that will make the two par-4 holes more difficult. The project will cost $1.4 million and should be completed this year. "Splash" at the Riviera is selling $10 programs containing dazzling images of the newest version of the show spectacular. They are available for purchase during regular show hours at the "Splash" Showroom. "Splash" celebrated its 16-year anniversary at the hotel on June 21.
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Based on Victor Hugo's classic novel, "Les Miserables" is an epic saga that sweeps through three turbulent decades of 19th century France. It is also the story of one man, the fugitive Jean Valjean, who is pitted against the cruel and self-righteous Inspector Javert in a lifelong struggle to evade capture.
Besides selling out theaters across the country, Boosler has done seven cable specials including Showtime's "Party of One," "Broadway Baby," and "Top Tomata." All of these specials have been nominated for Cable Ace awards.
Tenuta describes herself as a "Goddess," who converts her mortal swine to her signature religion "Judyism." She preaches that all women should be worshiped as" Love Goddess'," and all men have an equal opportunity to be her furniture." She was the very first stand-up to win "Best Female Comedian" at the American Comedy Awards.