Le Cabaret is a lounge at Paris off the casino and near the front doors. On Friday and Saturday nights, four 18-minute shows take place on the small stage and in the audience in which four dancers and a singer perform to recorded backup music.
The 9 and 11 p.m. shows are called La Femme. The dancers wear pink babydoll dresses and berets and dance to Dua Lipa’s “Don’t Start Now,” Maroon 5’s “This Love,” Vanity 6’s “Nasty Girl,” and the like.
This performance is fairly tame compared to The Red Shows at 10 p.m. and midnight. The costumes are sexier — red can-can outfits — and they’re shed to a certain extent as the show progresses, with some naughty moves and suggestive poses; they also employ feather fans and chairs as they vamp to racier tunes, such as “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” Labelle’s “Lady Marmalade” (“Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?”), and the Police’s “Roxanne.” The Red Show finishes up with more contemporary hits, Britney Spears’ “Toxic,” Ginuwine’s “Pony,” and the finale, Fergie’s “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got).”
The singer gives her all in belting out the songs and ramping up the crowd, the dancers are serviceable, a bit starchy and occasionally out of sync, and the whole effect is a bit low rent, but these are free shows after all and the audiences are definitely appreciative.
There’s no minimum that we could discern and with only one cocktail waitress at the early show, several tables were full of people without any drinks. Another waitress came on duty for the 10 p.m. show and we assume the later two, so it might be tough to get away with seeing those without ordering. The drinks are even stiffer than the dancers: beers starting at $11, wine and champagne $18-$30, cocktails $23-$25, Red Bull $9, and soda and water $7.
Luckily, the lounge is completely open on two sides, so you can just stand beyond the railing and take it in without being approached by the waitresses. Plenty of people do.
Is this show where tjey had live bands by the big tree??