{"id":11096,"date":"2013-07-09T09:55:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T17:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=11096"},"modified":"2013-07-09T10:20:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T18:20:39","slug":"indiana-half-full-or-half-empty-priscilla-faints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/indiana-half-full-or-half-empty-priscilla-faints\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana: Half-full or half-empty?; ‘Priscilla’ faints"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s the operative question after a contrariwise June in Indiana<\/strong>. The state’s casinos saw 17% less foot traffic, but those fewer players were spending more (up 6%). Even so, the Hoosier State’s racinos, casinos and riverboats were down 12% for the month, worse than Wall Street <\/strong>expected. Most of that big slurping sound came from the south end of the state, where Horseshoe Cincinnati<\/strong> cleaned out its Indiana competitors well and good.<\/p>\n

\"\"Even Horseshoe Southern Indiana<\/strong> (lef<\/em>t) felt the effect of competition from its Cincy sister, off 10% from last year. But the big hurt was put on Penn National Gaming<\/strong>‘s Hollywood Lawrenceburg<\/strong>, down 35%, Pinnacle Entertainment<\/strong>‘s Belterra<\/strong> (-35%) and privately owned Grand Victoria<\/em> (-21%). Perhaps some of this business will trickle back once the curiosity-seekers have had their fill of Cincinnati<\/strong>. More likely, though, most of it is gone, never to return. There were are variety of smaller revenues up and down the state, although Cordish Gaming<\/strong>‘s Indiana Live<\/strong> managed to stay more or less flat with 2012. This is, however, one case where the statewide problem is easy to diagnose: players — or rather, the lack thereof.<\/p>\n

rm Seafood<\/a><\/strong> has been promising a new “steampunk” look for its upstairs dining room, which really didn’t seem to have a clear purpose in its previous incarnation. Thrillist<\/em> got an early pee<\/a>k (best line: “Don’t worry, you didn’t just walk into the Illuminati HQ.”) at the new-yet-old 19th century design. The fare seems to be fancy-pants comfort food, like “Inside-Out French Onion Grilled Cheese,” but that’s today’s Vegas, man. As for the overall aesthetic, who knew that one of the most godawful movies<\/a> ever made — The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen<\/a><\/em> — would exert such a grip on the psyches of interior decorators.<\/p>\n

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert<\/a><\/strong><\/em> will continue to sputter along until July \"\"21,well shy of its intended closing date at Palazzo<\/strong>. Vegas was less hospitable than the Australian Outback to this transvestite musical, which is odd when you consider that drag-queen shows are reliable entertainment staples in Sin City. Hindsight being 20-20, Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> should have let the Smith Center<\/strong> have this one. The latter would never have booked it for 11 weeks. Somebody really ‘misoverestimated’ the demand for Priscilla<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s the operative question after a contrariwise June in Indiana. The state’s casinos saw 17% less foot traffic, but those fewer players were spending more (up 6%). Even so, the Hoosier State’s racinos, casinos and riverboats were down 12% for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,70,28,18,14,4,7,11,69,30,111,12,9,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11099,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions\/11099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}