{"id":7836,"date":"2011-11-01T12:23:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T20:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=7836"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T23:16:08","slug":"theres-life-after-the-mob-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/theres-life-after-the-mob-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s life after the Mob Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"315\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ANSTjXCA-Bo?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ANSTjXCA-Bo?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>So the <strong>Las Vegas Mob Experience<\/strong> has sacked 90% of its staff, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/blogs\/kats-report\/2011\/sep\/09\/mob-experience-closing-down-much-experience-make-u\/\" target=\"_blank\">cut ticket prices by 75%<\/a> (making it a bargain play), had its malfunctioning &#8220;interactive&#8221; exhibits repossessed by a creditor, closed off the theme-park portion of the attraction and done everything short of fit impresario <strong>Jay Bloom<\/strong> 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 <strong>Las Vegas Little Theatre<\/strong> needed Thirties-style backdrops for the promotional video of its new production of <em>The Man Who Came to Dinner<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvlt.org\/current_season\/ManWhoCameToDinner.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">opens Nov. 4<\/a>), director <strong>Mario Mendez<\/strong> pressed those disused Mob Expo sets into service &#8212; which is what gives this pastiche its vaguely familiar ambience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;interactive&#8221; exhibits repossessed by a creditor, closed off the theme-park portion of the attraction and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/theres-life-after-the-mob-experience\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,28,4,87,9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836"}],"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=7836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7843,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions\/7843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}