Audience feedback on the revamped, urbanized Jubilee! is starting to pour in … and it’s devastating. How bad can it be, I hear you say? Try this: “Like trying to save the Hindenburg with a bicycle pump … hands-down the worst show I’ve ever seen … The Titanic sinks and turns into the Statue of Liberty for some reason … I think I booed twice … The mic was not functioning for many songs, the curtains would not go up and down as needed … What has been the classiest showgirl revue in the history of Las Vegas has been ‘reinvented’ to nothing more than a trashy, discombobulated, nonsensical amalgam of disconnected dance numbers performed by a talented ensemble which seems to be lacking leadership and direction.”
Get the picture? Maybe Caesars Entertainment CEO Gary Loveman isn’t personally to blame for this mess but he’ll do in a pinch, having green-lit the redo. I had a soft spot for the old Jubilee!, even if it was High Camp in many places. I dread having to go back to see its successor.
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think to define “incidental” — an understandable oversight — when making regulations in 2011 that were intended to curb the growth of slot routes. So your “tavern” might be deriving 90% of its income from your 15 slots and there’s nothing the county can do about it. The legal definition of these establishments as “restricted” gaming operators takes on an ironic twist. Ergo, 

