Pity poor Rockstar: The Tribute. It briefly played Planet Hollywood‘s Wyrick Entertainment Complex last June, then got the boot. An announced revival at the Harmon Theater never materialized. A late-2009 move to the Riviera was ballyhooed. Guess what? Rockstar never opened, quickly supplanted by a rival tribute show, Masters of Rock. So it was back to the Harmon. Or maybe not. Today, LVA received the following e-mail from an undoubtedly long-suffering Rockstar promoter:
“I want to thank you very much for assisting me with the promotion and sales for Rockstar: The Tribute, however I have just been informed that due to some structural re-formation the show has been postponed until further notice.
“I do hope and look forward to working with you in the near future. As soon as there is a set date for the show to re-open I will be in contact with you and do hope that you will concider [sic] working with us again. Thank you again for all of your efforts and I am truely [sic] sorry for any and all inconvenience this has caused.”
It’s no inconvenience to us, but sympathy accrues to anyone whose wagon was hitched to the chimera that is Rockstar. If this vagabond show ever opens on the Strip, it’ll be front-page news.
• Just what Atlantic City needed …
It looks like they can kiss off February out there.
• Having taken the better part of a year to review the tip-confiscation controversy at Wynn Resorts, Labor Commissioner Michael Tanchek now threatens to delay his oft-postponed ruling into May. Don’t blame him but a passel of Wynn attorneys who just sandbagged him with a new set of legal briefs. If this decision comes down in our lifetimes, it better be earth-shaking in ramifications.
• Mid-March room rates on the Strip look good for (almost) every major player. Wynn is flat but MGM Mirage (11%) and Las Vegas Sands (7%) are up in the March 7-13 period. The laggard is Harrah’s Entertainment, off a whopping 24%. Or, as the Nevada Gaming Control Board would say, “Move along folks, nothing to see here.”
Room occupancy rates:
That’s good news, as long as they don’t jacking up room prices again.
That out of the way, I just want to refer everybody to an 11-part video series that I just stumbled across:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/history/video/
Apparently produced in 2008, by the LV Sun, it takes a look at the history of Las Vegas from the 1900s to the late 2000s.
Particularly interesting is Part 11, which contains incredibly optimistic predictions.
A.C. snowy expressway video question:
Is the “Gamblers Express” train from New York to A.C. still running?