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Posted At : May 18, 2009 12:56 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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"Peepshow" prime donne Kelly Monaco & Mel. B
By now it's old news that Planet Hollywood's new resident spectacle, Peepshow, has gone topless for real. Though some question the move, to me it always seemed retrogressive and counter-intuitive to present a T&A show in contemporary Las Vegas that had scarcely a nipple in sight. That's so 1956.
What's newsworthy is the co-producer's rationalization for not daring to bare: "All of the other shows in this genre play to a smaller house. What we didn't want to do is alienate what could be 50 percent of our audience. We wanted to do a show both men and women are comfortable seeing."
In this context, "smaller" is anything less than 1,400 seats. By that Double-D measurement, Cirque du Soleil's nudity-friendly Zumanity plays to a "smaller" (i.e., 1,256-seat) house, but we're hardly talking Crazy Girls-cozy there, now are we? Jubilee! over at Bally's, seats 1,040. The sight of literally scores of bare breasts hasn't kept that show from racking up a quarter-century run.
If Jubilee! "alienate[s] ... 50 percent of [its] audience" -- which is very unlikely -- it's done no evident harm at the ticket window. (For that matter, I know some women who wouldn't mind seeing Peepshow's Mel B. in her knickers ... )
So you have to ask, "What were the Peepshow peeps thinking?" They evidently came in not knowing the market and seem only now to be getting up to speed. Fig-leaf prudishness and the Las Vegas Strip just don't mix.
I didn't know modern day LV was so prudish or resentful of nudity however slight. They say or do nothing of the Chippendale show or Thunder down Under. Funny how that works.
I haven't seen the two shows you mention, Ed, but in the case of "Peepshow" I blame creator Jerry Mitchell and his producer. Their comments suggest an unwarranted level of snootiness towards a town in which there's no shortage of bare skin. See our forthcoming e-book, "Topless Vegas" -- whose author loved "Peepshow," by the way.
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