{"id":816,"date":"2009-02-06T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/2\/6\/Whats-the-sound-of-stale"},"modified":"2009-02-06T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T20:12:00","slug":"whats-the-sound-of-stale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/whats-the-sound-of-stale\/","title":{"rendered":"What's the sound of stale?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" It'd probably be very much like the dulcet tones of Danny F. Gans<\/strong> (pictured), who reassures prospective attendees<\/a> to his Encore<\/strong> show<\/a> not to worry: It'll be the same old same-old. Or, as he rationalizes it, "I'm trying to give [audiences] exactly what they want." (Which seems to be the problem with most Hollywood movies, too, but I digress.)<\/p>\n

I'm only slightly younger than Gans and if a graying head like mine thinks that, say, doing a George Burns<\/strong> impression marks you as badly out of touch, what are the 35-45-somethings Gans claims to be targeting going to think? Heck, the recent Cirque du Soleil<\/strong> fiasco, Believe<\/em><\/a>, didn't tank because it was too new, too risky but because — by an overwhelming consensus — it was too derivative, too Cirque de Yesterday.<\/p>\n

"I feel like I'm kind of the Rocky<\/strong> of this town," Gans declares. Given that Sylvester Stallone<\/strong> looks ossified and does the same thing over and over, that analogy may be unwittingly apt. Gans' reputation is that of a performer whose act fossilized somewhere back in the Clinton administration and he seems determined to validate the perception. But Steve Wynn<\/strong> is wagering that there's money to be made off predictable mediocrity and he's likely to be proven right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It'd probably be very much like the dulcet tones of Danny F. Gans (pictured), who reassures prospective attendees to his Encore show not to worry: It'll be the same old same-old. Or, as he rationalizes it, "I'm trying to give … 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":[80,105,4,32,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816"}],"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=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}