{"id":3049,"date":"2010-05-05T10:10:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T18:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2010-05-05T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T18:41:14","slug":"vegas-secret-shame-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/vegas-secret-shame-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas’ secret shame revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thanks to last night’s episode of Dancing with the Stars<\/em>, all America knows that Cirque du Soleil<\/strong> has unleashed a campy, fugly Elvis Presley<\/strong> “tribute” show upon the Strip. (I wonder which of the six<\/em> credited choreographers was responsible for the number performed?) Truth be told, it actually “plays” far better on the DWTS<\/em> set than at Aria<\/strong>, where it’s crammed — shoehorned, one might say — onto a shallow, overstuffed proscenium stage. Happily, Cirque left the giant blue suede shoe — the size of a compact car — back in Vegas.<\/p>\n

While Viva Elvis<\/em> might have engendered better opening-night reviews had “Blue Suede Shoes” been more pure dance and less “Cirquetry” (as Las Vegas Weekly<\/em>‘s Joe Brown<\/strong> dubbed the shtick), at least one viewer got a premonition of the candy-colored glop that is Viva Elvis<\/em>‘ prevailing aesthetic. Wrote TelevisionWithoutPity.com<\/em> member o2Sean<\/strong>: “I don’t remember even those day-glo Elvis movies having people who looked like they were rejected from the Legion of Superheroes<\/strong> circa the Saturn Girl<\/strong> bikini era. What did any of that even have to do with Elvis<\/em>?”<\/p>\n

What indeed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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