Question of the Day - 07 April 2018

Well, on one hand, this was kind of a tough one, since Las Vegas has just about every kind of show imaginable: headliners in residence, seven different Cirque productions, illusionists, toplessness, impressionists (a couple with puppets), hypnotists, superstar and female impersonators, comedians, male strippers, Elvis resurrected, even a jousting dinner show, zombie burlesque, trio of blue men, water extravaganza, and a Worst Show in Vegas.  

Plus mind readers.

On the other hand, one show does happen to jump out as the answer to your question: Ilusión Mental (and you say that in Spanish: ee-loo-see-OWN men-TAHL). 

Ilusión Mental at Planet Hollywood is el espectáculo principal que está completamente en español (the only all-Spanish show) in the history of the Las Vegas Strip. And even though it's mind-reading, which isn't especially "un-Vegas-like," the fact that it's all in Spanish makes it as exotic an act as you can see on the Strip. 

The star of the show is Santiago Michel. With his Latin-soap-opera good looks, charm, and charisma, Michel is a mentalista (mind-reader) who uses every trick in the book during his one-man all-ages 65-minute performance.

The 24-year-old Michel is from Mexico City, but graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School in Russia. He performs mind reading-style mentalism that reveals startling personal information about audience volunteers — from whether someone is lying and which celebrity someone is thinking about to the name of the first person he or she ever kissed.

We haven't seen the show yet, though we plan to in the next couple of months. But non-Spanish-speaking reviewers have written that they could follow the act and that at the very least, the people-watching and exotic experience were well worth the price ($66.20/$79.10/$125.16; Thurs. and Sat.-Mon. at 5:30 p.m.).