Once again, the Las Vegas Hotel & Casino has been the place where shows go to die. Tedious demi-musical The D* Word is going dark for good on Sept. 1. You’d never guess this self-ripoff from the author of Menopause The Musical would be box office poison, based on the “You go, girl” hysteria that accompanied the premiere. Then again, the lower echelons of the Las Vegas media scene are notoriously easy to please. My spies tell me that the original cast has already skedaddled to Palm Beach, while Christine De Chavez, Jacquelyn Holland-Wright and the rest of the Vegas-residency cast have allegedly been promised a two-month run in Philadelphia instead (or so the scuttlebutt would have it). Rarely have I looked at the clock so often during a show as I did during The D* Word, which must stand for “dull.”
Also heard through the grapevine is that the Tropicana Las Vegas will soon be bereft of the Mob Attraction. The latter is reportedly pulling up and moving to the Flamingo Las Vegas, brass knuckles and all. If you’ve been, you’ll know that it’s a fairly soporific spectacle, so if Caesars Entertainment can find a way to sex it up, more power to them. As for the Trop, it would be left out of pocket after agreeing to a deferred-payment lease with owner John Vipulis. Just once, wouldn’t it be nice to see the Trop making headlines in a good way?
I thought you were going to say that the Trop is changing their day club pool scene again!