It’s business as usual at Planet Hollywood‘s troubled Privé nightclub. Once week, a license revocation, today a bankruptcy filing. Do you think maybe Planet Ho will be happy to see the last of the Miami-based owners of the club? (Photo: JeffInOKC)
Elsewhere at Planet Ho, it must be quite a jigsaw puzzle-like task to assemble the schedule for V Theater. Its impresario, David Saxe, not only has at least nine shows in repertory, he’s about to add three more. Next Tuesday, Hitzville! arrives at V by way of Harmon Theater and Green Valley Ranch. It will go into the 6 p.m. time slot preceding Gerry McCambridge‘s The Mentalist (except on Wednesdays, when it spells McCambridge for a night). Something described only as Intensi-T fills the one “dark” slot (Thursday) in Fab Four‘s schedule. Saxe also takes in a refugee from one of Planet Ho’s showrooms, Tony ‘n Tina’s Wedding. For this, Saxe will open a third V space on Dec. 19.
Further up the Strip, the schism between Sandy Hackett and other members of The Rat Pack is Back! has resulted in a sort of rump faction setting up shop in the Sahara‘s Congo Room (also under Saxe-y auspicies). Titled Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show, it opens Nov. 19. Personally, I think we should have a moratorium on Rat Pack tributes until Matt Goss and Zowie Bowie either leave town or at least forswear covering Frank Sinatra standards (because their Rat Pack medleys blow donkeys).
But perhaps you’re of a more forgiving disposition than I. Whatever the case, it’s good to see Saxe opening a quartet of new shows when so many others are tottering or going dark.
I take it from the clip that Prive and Planet Hollywood are managed and owned seperately. That strikes me as a risky arrangement. Is this practice commin in Las Vegas?
In any case, is the era of the “bottle service” club over yet or is it just wishful thinking on my part? I’d love to see more old school, old style lounges.
Yes, it’s common and yes, it’s risky.
One point on PH I noticed this last weekend that they were advertising Frank Caliendo on their board. I thought that was extremely unusual for competing companies. Commonplace for the conglamorates, but just seemed a bit weird, wish I could have caught a picture.
Jinx, I saw the Calinedo signage on the walk back from my CityCenter semi-tour and thought it very odd, too. Planet Ho is hard up for money but who’da thought it’d stoop to carrying advertising for a competing property?
Um, make that “Caliendo.” I am forever mis-typing that man’s name.