{"id":846032,"date":"2023-11-21T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/?p=846032"},"modified":"2023-11-20T18:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T02:23:28","slug":"kyle-martins-piano-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/kyle-martins-piano-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Martin\u2019s Piano Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kyle Martin\u2019s Piano Man
V3 Theater, Miracle Mile Shops
Thurs.-Mon. 6:30 p.m.
$29.44-$64.44<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shows at the small V theaters at the Miracle Mile Shops come and go with some regularity, but Kyle Martin\u2019s Piano Man<\/em> has demonstrated some longevity, going on a couple of years. After seeing it, we\u2019re not surprised. Martin does spot-on impersonations of Billy Joel and Elton John, both at the keyboard and microphone and with the costuming, and the four-piece backup band\u2014lead and bass guitars, sax, and drums\u2014are all talented musicians in their own right; all do the two superstar rockers proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show starts with the ferocious instrumental prelude to Joel\u2019s \u201cAngry Young Man\u201d from Turnstiles, the fourth album, the way Joel often opened concerts in the \u201970s and early \u201980s and a most worthy representation of the classically trained pianist and self-trained composer. When the prelude ends, Martin skips the song itself to segue right into \u201cScenes from an Italian Restaurant,\u201d also a truncated version, followed by a medley of \u201cMoving out,\u201d \u201cJust the Way You Are,\u201d and \u201cWe Didn\u2019t Start the Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All the while, the wall of screens behind the band is projecting relevant and engaging images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBig Shot,\u201d \u201cUptown Girl,\u201d and \u201cNew York State of Mind\u201d keep the hits, though halved, coming, and \u201cIn the Middle of the Night\u201d is the appropriate break at the 35-minute mark for some band-member solos while Martin runs off stage and comes back all glammed up as Elton John doing \u201cPhiladelphia Freedom.\u201d Medleys of \u201cCandle in the Wind,\u201d \u201cTiny Dancer,\u201d \u201cRocket Man,\u201d and \u201cBenny and the Jets\u201d take up another 30 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first encore brings the show back around to Billy with \u201cPiano Man,\u201d naturally. The second encore is Elton\u2019s \u201cYour Song,\u201d his first hit, written by a 17-year-old Bernie Taupin and marking the start of a 50-plus-yeaer musician-lyricist partnership, one of the most enduring in rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. That\u2019s followed by another Elton song, \u201cI\u2019m Still Standing\u201d and the show ends with Joel\u2019s \u201cYou May Be Right\u201d at exactly 80 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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All seats are fine, though we opted for the middle-priced ticket at $49.44 and we were glad we weren\u2019t in the last four rows in the long narrow venue. Still, with the service and order-processing fees, the total came to $71.75, which felt a tad rich for a small show that starts at 6:30, especially since we\u2019d just seen the spectacular Shin Lim in the 1,000-seat Mirage Theater for a total ticket price of $81.06, only $9.31 more. But if you, like us, are big fans of both piano men, you won\u2019t be disappointed in this show, which will start your evening off with a big bang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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