{"id":869044,"date":"2024-11-27T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/?p=869044"},"modified":"2024-11-26T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T19:17:13","slug":"miss-behaves-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/miss-behaves-mavericks\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Behave\u2019s Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Plaza<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wed \u2013 Sun 7 p.m.
Sat 7 & 9 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

$35-$99<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMiss Behave\u201d is the stage name of Amy Saunders, a British-born performer, comedian, and producer best known for her sword-swallowing prowess. Self-taught in the skill (it\u2019s not an illusion; sword swallowers actually take the sword up to the hilt \u2014 down the esophagus and into the stomach), she started swallowing swords in London in 1996 and has set several records for the feat. She\u2019s also a producer who\u2019s been running her own variety revues since 2008, including Miss Behave\u2019s Game Show, which appeared at Bally\u2019s (now the Horseshoe) between 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Miss Behave\u2019s Mavericks<\/em> launched in March 2022 at Cheapshot, a Fremont East bar and small theater, and lasted nearly a year. In August 2023, it was announced the Mavericks was moving to the Plaza Showroom, where it opened late last month. We\u2019d heard intriguing things about Miss Behave and her shows over the years and we like the showroom \u2014 small but spacious and comfortable, excellent sound system and acoustics \u2014 so we attended a Saturday early show shortly after it opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saunders was described by the BBC as \u201ca live cartoon with a late-night attitude\u201d and she lives up to the characterization, emceeing Mavericks in her lilting British accent, cracking jokes, ad libbing, stepping off the stage and prowling the audience so you almost feel part of the show, and generally keeping things moving along at a rapid clip \u2014 in her words, \u201clubricating the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a variety show with a number of sharp edges. Acts we\u2019ve never seen before include a woman twerking to Beethoven\u2019s Fifth Symphony, a prima ballerina and a lady in a gorilla suit doing stripteases, the hula-hoop artist performing in a duck mask to the Vietnam song \u201cBird Is the Word,\u201d and another stripper riding an oversized bucking spinning balloon dog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two acrobats, one aerial, the other on a four-handed platform, demonstrate what Miss Behave described as \u201cthe ultimate in what\u2019s possible to do with the human body.\u201d Speaking of which, she swallowed a sword and one of the legs of a stool while balancing a champagne bottle on the seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our favorite segment was the singer who did an absolutely fierce rendition of David Bowie\u2019s \u201cRock \u2019n\u2019 Roll Suicide\u201d off Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars<\/em> (in our top-five albums of all time); to us, she stole the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also different was the intermission about 60 minutes in. It was great to get up, stretch, go for a walk to the restroom just across the casino, and brace ourselves for the last 30 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All in all, Miss Behave\u2019s Mavericks<\/em> is a rousing good time in a great room downtown at an affordable price and you\u2019ll definitely feel in with the in crowd when \u2014 not if, we recommend \u2014 you see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plaza Wed \u2013 Sun 7 p.m.Sat 7 & 9 p.m. $35-$99 \u201cMiss Behave\u201d is the stage name of Amy Saunders, a British-born performer, comedian, and producer best known for her sword-swallowing prowess. Self-taught in the skill (it\u2019s not an illusion; sword swallowers actually take the sword up to the hilt \u2014 down the esophagus and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":869046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1447,1453],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/mav12.jpg?fit=480%2C609&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869061,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869044\/revisions\/869061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}