Siegfried and Roy to Return to Stage for Charity Fundraiser
Great News from Vegas.
Norm Clarke, the Norm of Norm Confidential, writes in this morning’s Las Vegas Review-Journal Siegfried & Roy will return to the stage.
The world famous magicians made their announcement this weekend at the 12th annual Alzheimer’s benefit for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute at the MGM Grand Garden.
The two will leave retirement to perform at next years’ "Keep Memory Alive" Alzheimer’s fundraiser.
The appearance will be their first performance in almost five years.
On October 3, 2003, a white tiger attacked and nearly killed Roy while performing at The Mirage Resort.
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Lance Burton and Stars Visit with Monte Carlo Workers
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
It has been a while since Lance
Burton, Louie Anderson or Carrot Top worked a lunchroom. But the three
entertained Monte Carlo cleanup crews during their last week "just to
keep everybody cheered up,"
Burton said. "Everybody’s working real hard
to reopen the place."
Beyond that, Burton was getting in a lot of treadmill time earlier
this week, "trying to stay in shape and not to gain any extra weight"
while waiting for the thumbs up to reopen. There was no water or smoke
damage to his ground-level theater.
The morning of the fire, Burton was safely at home in Henderson. "I
was just waking up having some coffee and my phone started ringing," he
recalls.
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Lance Burton Portends Monte Carlo’s Re-Opening
Norm Clarke of the must-read Norm Confidential in The Las Vegas Review Journal tells us Lance Burton’s schedule portends The Monte Carlo Resort’s return.
The Monte Carlo has been closed since the January 25th fire that sent almost two dozen folks to the hospital for minor injuries.
Management has busied itself with the monumental tasks of relocting booked guests, repairing the fire-damaged upper floors of the resort, and staying alive and relevant on a very dynamic Las Vegas Strip.
Mr. Clarke says we can expect the Monte Carlo to announce the reopening date today.
How does he know? Inside information? Psychic?
Nope. He gave a call to the Lance Burton Theater’s ticket office.
No date has been announced, but a call to the ticket office on Thursday provided this hint: Tickets to the Feb. 15 Lance Burton magic show were available Thursday, for the first time since the fire.
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