No wonder Harrah’s Las Vegas gave Legends in Concert an eviction notice a scant two days after a major promotional event. The venerable casino landed Million Dollar Quartet, which played a critically acclaimed but very 
limited engagement at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts. The low-overhead, high-recognition Broadway hit is a logical follow-up to Paris-Las Vegas‘ acquisition of Jersey Boys and is a nostalgic natural for the Strip, opening next Feb. 4. It stands to reason that the Caesars Entertainment statisticians were closely measuring M$Q‘s box office performance last summer in Vegas and it’s fact that high-ranking execs checked it out in person. This Quartet-for-Legends shuffle was rumored last June but it took much longer than expected to consummate a deal. Perhaps this indeed means that Legends is destined for The Rio but Caesars remains mum on the topic. M$Q‘s touring company roams the East Coast (mostly) through next spring, winding up next May in Tucson. (The future of the Chicago production appears secure.) But it’ll steer clear of the West Coast and will be in few tourist destinations remotely comparable to Vegas. So score one for Caesars.
Bad news for traditional media: Even that sturdiest of scribes, Clark Kent, is giving up on ink-and-paper, profit-driven journalism and taking his fight for truth, justice and the American way to “the Internets.”
