{"id":7992,"date":"2011-11-29T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T01:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=7992"},"modified":"2020-03-28T10:39:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T18:39:47","slug":"viva-elvis-its-leaving-the-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/viva-elvis-its-leaving-the-building\/","title":{"rendered":"“Viva Elvis\u2122”: It’s leaving the building"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"You’ve got slightly more than a year to catch Viva Elvis\u2122<\/em><\/a>, which Cirque du Soleil<\/strong>\u00ae will put out of its box office misery (60% attendance) at the end of 2012, seven years short of its planned, decade-long run. According to the Toronto Globe & Mail<\/em>, plans for a temporary shutdown, followed by a melding of Viva Elvis\u2122<\/em> with Cirque’s fatefully named Zed<\/em> (left homeless by the Japanese tsunami) have been scrapped. There will be plenty of time to second-guess the marketing and the venue of Viva Elvis\u2122<\/em> (a charmless, generic Aria<\/strong> theater with wretched acoustics<\/a>), and weigh the question of whether seven Cirque shows on the Strip is one too many. But the bottom line is that Viva Elvis\u2122<\/em> just wasn’t particularly good. Withering critical reception<\/a> was matched by audience indifference. Cirque chose to be content with a brazenly condescending<\/a>, take-the-money-and-run attitude<\/a> toward the job and it showed<\/a>. As I’ve said before, Elvis hasn’t left Aria; he was never there.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> The plot thickens. Seems that MGM Resorts International<\/strong> wanted the show out<\/a>, telling Cirque to replace it with something, anything else. The blame game has begun, with one Cirque admirer faulting “the soulless entity that is City Centre<\/strong> [sic<\/em>]” for the show’s downfall. It’s entirely possible that the giant Viva Elvis<\/em>\u2122 billboard — otherwise known as The Harmon<\/strong> — could still be standing<\/a> after the show itself has closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve got slightly more than a year to catch Viva Elvis\u2122, which Cirque du Soleil\u00ae will put out of its box office misery (60% attendance) at the end of 2012, seven years short of its planned, decade-long run. According to … 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":[80,56,4,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992"}],"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=7992"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26576,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7992\/revisions\/26576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}