{"id":9588,"date":"2012-09-05T16:26:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T00:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2012-09-05T16:35:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T00:35:41","slug":"insufficiently-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/insufficiently-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Insufficiently “Awesome”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"After seemingly endless previews (months of them, I believe), Sirc Michaels Productions<\/strong> has folded its second V Theater<\/strong> show, Awesome 80s Prom<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Actually, to call it a “show” would be a misnomer. It was more of a semi-scripted “happening,” at which one was encouraged to “[mingle] with characters from their favorite 80s movies like The Breakfast Club<\/em> and Pretty in Pink<\/em>. You will dance and sing along to the ‘gnarliest’ hits of the decade like ‘Wake Me up Before You Go-Go’ and ‘Jessie’s Girl’ and more!” Did you hear that? You will<\/em> dance, tourist monkeys! It is commanded of you!<\/p>\n

As will happen with any vortex of suckage and ‘meh’ whose basic elements include le cinema de<\/em> John Hughes<\/strong>, plus Rick Springfield<\/strong> and Wham!<\/strong>, Awesome 80s Prom<\/em> collapsed like an unstable wormhole. I could explain why … but then I’d have to kill you, unfortunately. Producer Sirc Michaels<\/strong> extended coupon offers, added seating (which was initially somewhere between minimal and nonexistent — one was basically forced to participate) but to no avail. As one local wag put it, with ticket prices starting at $66, you should at least get a punchbowl and some Chex Mix<\/strong>. While this might not be the last sighting of 80s Prom<\/em> in Las Vegas<\/strong>, the next sock hop won’t convene at V. In its place, Michaels has rushed something called Legwarmers, <\/em>it was learned this afternoon.<\/em> Legwarmers<\/em> will, presumably, provide employment for Prom<\/em> cast members like Amanda Kraft<\/strong> and others, like Nicole Unger<\/strong> and John Tomasello<\/strong>, who were supplementing their Evil Dead The Musical<\/a><\/em> salaries with Prom<\/em> duty. Ironically, SMP had just held auditions for Evil Dead<\/em> understudies, who are unlikely to be needed now.<\/p>\n

Since no media night was ever held for 80s Prom<\/em> (or you would have read about it here), it moves into a special category of \u00a0‘phantom’ Vegas shows. Like the six-performance run of Point Break! The Musical<\/em> or Las Vegas Hilton<\/strong> fiasco Triumph … <\/em>It Runs on Steam<\/em>, which quickly ran out<\/em> of steam, it joins the unenviable ranks of Strip shows that closed before they officially opened. The ghosts of such showbiz ‘nonpersons’ need a building to haunt. I think The Harmon<\/strong> would be an appropriate venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After seemingly endless previews (months of them, I believe), Sirc Michaels Productions has folded its second V Theater show, Awesome 80s Prom. Actually, to call it a “show” would be a misnomer. It was more of a semi-scripted “happening,” at … 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":[56,3,28,4,53,10,9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588"}],"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=9588"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9594,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions\/9594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}