Planning a meeting in Las Vegas or attending a convention in Las Vegas and having to organize satellite events?
| Experience the Spectacle of Las Vegas Entertainment |
Enjoy the Country Superstars Tribute at Golden Nugget Las Vegas Hotel for a fast-paced, concert-style event, featuring a world-class live band and tribute artists honoring country music greats, such as Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw, Reba McEntire and Kenny Chesney. For tickets, call (866) 946-5336. Perfect for the ultimate fans of musicals, Broadway Celebration at New York-New York incorporates all of the hottest Broadway show tunes into one dazzling New York–style extravaganza. For tickets, visit www.showtickets.com/Las-Vegas-Shows/broadway-celebration/.
Variety Shows
Variety shows offer just that: variety. Always guaranteed to provide spectacle, variety shows include superstar performers, fascinating performance art, musical and dance revues and some more adult options, such as Drag Queen shows and sexy revues for men and women.
Superstar icons Donny and Marie Osmond bring their distinctive talents and charm to the Flamingo Las Vegas where they dazzle and delight audiences in a 90-minute extravaganza. Donny and Marie’s timeless hits, including “Paper Roses,” “Puppy Love” and “Soldier of Love” come to life on their custom stage with video screens and electrifying dancers. For tickets, visit www.showtickets.com/Donny&Marie/.
Leap into the bizarre world of performance art. Blue Man Group, now at the Monte Carlo, features three enigmatic bald, blue characters that plunge the audience into a sensory experience of theater, percussive music, art, science and vaudeville shtick. For tickets, call (866) 641-SHOW or visit www.blueman.com/tickets/las_vegas/. An intoxicating collision of circus, burlesque and vaudeville with curious creatures, heavenly bodies and outrageous comedy, Absinthe is presented at Caesars Palace inside the intimate Spiegeltent, a 100-year-old wooden show tent from Europe. For tickets, call (800) 745-3000 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.
As always, music and dance revues, often with stunning showgirls, are a hallmark in Las Vegas. At Planet Hollywood Las Vegas, VEGAS! The Show recreates the greatest moments in Sin City history while V, the Ultimate Variety Show, features comedians, jugglers, acrobats, death-defying stunts, magicians and musical performances. Jubilee! at Bally’s Las Vegas is one of the longest-running Las Vegas extravaganzas with incredible sets, costumes and special effects. For tickets to any of these shows, call (866) 80-SHOWS.
What’s life without a little drag? Some of the best and most fabulous female-impersonation Drag Queens are here in Las Vegas. The most fabulous of them all is Frank Marino’s Divas Las Vegas at The Quad Resort & Casino starring a Drag Queen Joan Rivers leading a cast of superstar female impersonators from Diana Ross and Dolly Parton to Britney Spears. For tickets, call (702) 794-3261 or visit www.frankmarino.com.
Perhaps you want something a little more risqué for adult nighttime entertainment. For the men, Peepshow at Planet Hollywood is an ultra-hot show with sexy striptease and playful storytelling starring Holly Madison from E! Entertainment’s The Girls Next Door. FANTASY at Luxor Las Vegas is one of the city’s leading topless shows that combines singing and comic relief with gorgeous dancers that lure guests into wild fantasies in “the Strip’s biggest tease.” Beautiful dancers execute a variety of athletic moves and acts as they showcase seduction and fantasy at X Burlesque dance show at the Flamingo while at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas, iCandy Burlesque The Show features beautiful singers, dancers and aerialists in a high-energy, sassy, sultry production.
Women sometimes want their own version of risqué viewing, and Las Vegas delivers. American Storm at the Plaza Las Vegas is a sexy male revue that fulfills fantasies with men who have graced the covers of Playgirl and Muscle & Fitness magazines. Chippendales the Show at Rio is the ultimate girls night out as the No. 1 male revue in the world, featuring 12 physically perfect men performing tasteful, themed and sexy routines. Women also can go “down under” to see the all-male revue Australia’s Thunder From Down Under, which features a bevy of buff Australian male bodies in a two-hour tease.
Outdoor attractions
Sometimes being cooped up in a theater or showroom is not right your group, so if you’re looking for a nighttime treat out in the fresh air, Las Vegas has that, too.
The famous Bellagio Fountains in the lake at the Bellagio feature more than 1,000 soaring water jets choreographed as a water ballet set to opera, classical and Broadway tunes and enhanced at night by color and light. The show happens every 30 minutes during the day and every 15 minutes in the evenings until midnight. For more theatrics full of music, dance, danger, temptation, sensuality and seduction, go see the Sirens of TI, where the sexy sirens battle a band of renegade pirates in Sirens Cove at Treasure Island. Don’t forget the awesome atmosphere of the Freemont Street Experience, a vintage-Vegas pedestrian plaza with one-stop access to legendary casinos, restaurants, free entertainment, high-flying fun and the Viva Vision! light and sound show with 12.5 million synchronized LED lights and music.
Variety Shows
Variety shows offer just that: variety. Always guaranteed to provide spectacle, variety shows include superstar performers, fascinating performance art, musical and dance revues and some more adult options, such as Drag Queen shows and sexy revues for men and women.
Superstar icons Donny and Marie Osmond bring their distinctive talents and charm to the Flamingo Las Vegas where they dazzle and delight audiences in a 90-minute extravaganza. Donny and Marie’s timeless hits, including “Paper Roses,” “Puppy Love” and “Soldier of Love” come to life on their custom stage with video screens and electrifying dancers. For tickets, visit www.showtickets.com/Donny&Marie/.
Leap into the bizarre world of performance art. Blue Man Group, now at the Monte Carlo, features three enigmatic bald, blue characters that plunge the audience into a sensory experience of theater, percussive music, art, science and vaudeville shtick. For tickets, call (866) 641-SHOW or visit www.blueman.com/tickets/las_vegas/. An intoxicating collision of circus, burlesque and vaudeville with curious creatures, heavenly bodies and outrageous comedy, Absinthe is presented at Caesars Palace inside the intimate Spiegeltent, a 100-year-old wooden show tent from Europe. For tickets, call (800) 745-3000 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.
As always, music and dance revues, often with stunning showgirls, are a hallmark in Las Vegas. At Planet Hollywood Las Vegas, VEGAS! The Show recreates the greatest moments in Sin City history while V, the Ultimate Variety Show, features comedians, jugglers, acrobats, death-defying stunts, magicians and musical performances. Jubilee! at Bally’s Las Vegas is one of the longest-running Las Vegas extravaganzas with incredible sets, costumes and special effects. For tickets to any of these shows, call (866) 80-SHOWS.
What’s life without a little drag? Some of the best and most fabulous female-impersonation Drag Queens are here in Las Vegas. The most fabulous of them all is Frank Marino’s Divas Las Vegas at The Quad Resort & Casino starring a Drag Queen Joan Rivers leading a cast of superstar female impersonators from Diana Ross and Dolly Parton to Britney Spears. For tickets, call (702) 794-3261 or visit www.frankmarino.com.
Perhaps you want something a little more risqué for adult nighttime entertainment. For the men, Peepshow at Planet Hollywood is an ultra-hot show with sexy striptease and playful storytelling starring Holly Madison from E! Entertainment’s The Girls Next Door. FANTASY at Luxor Las Vegas is one of the city’s leading topless shows that combines singing and comic relief with gorgeous dancers that lure guests into wild fantasies in “the Strip’s biggest tease.” Beautiful dancers execute a variety of athletic moves and acts as they showcase seduction and fantasy at X Burlesque dance show at the Flamingo while at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas, iCandy Burlesque The Show features beautiful singers, dancers and aerialists in a high-energy, sassy, sultry production.
Women sometimes want their own version of risqué viewing, and Las Vegas delivers. American Storm at the Plaza Las Vegas is a sexy male revue that fulfills fantasies with men who have graced the covers of Playgirl and Muscle & Fitness magazines. Chippendales the Show at Rio is the ultimate girls night out as the No. 1 male revue in the world, featuring 12 physically perfect men performing tasteful, themed and sexy routines. Women also can go “down under” to see the all-male revue Australia’s Thunder From Down Under, which features a bevy of buff Australian male bodies in a two-hour tease.
Outdoor attractions
Sometimes being cooped up in a theater or showroom is not right your group, so if you’re looking for a nighttime treat out in the fresh air, Las Vegas has that, too.
The famous Bellagio Fountains in the lake at the Bellagio feature more than 1,000 soaring water jets choreographed as a water ballet set to opera, classical and Broadway tunes and enhanced at night by color and light. The show happens every 30 minutes during the day and every 15 minutes in the evenings until midnight. For more theatrics full of music, dance, danger, temptation, sensuality and seduction, go see the Sirens of TI, where the sexy sirens battle a band of renegade pirates in Sirens Cove at Treasure Island. Don’t forget the awesome atmosphere of the Freemont Street Experience, a vintage-Vegas pedestrian plaza with one-stop access to legendary casinos, restaurants, free entertainment, high-flying fun and the Viva Vision! light and sound show with 12.5 million synchronized LED lights and music.
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