There’s life after the Mob Experience

So the Las Vegas Mob Experience has sacked 90% of its staff, cut ticket prices by 75% (making it a bargain play), had its malfunctioning “interactive” exhibits repossessed by a creditor, closed off the theme-park portion of the attraction and done everything short of fit impresario Jay Bloom for a pair of cement overshoes. What do you do with a shuttered theme park? Loan it out as a instant movie set, of course! When Las Vegas Little Theatre needed Thirties-style backdrops for the promotional video of its new production of The Man Who Came to Dinner (opens Nov. 4), director Mario Mendez pressed those disused Mob Expo sets into service — which is what gives this pastiche its vaguely familiar ambience.