{"id":9621,"date":"2012-09-14T12:08:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T20:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9621"},"modified":"2019-08-26T06:05:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T14:05:17","slug":"zark-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/zark-who\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Zark-who&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been wondering where the pre-opening buzz for <strong>Aria<\/strong>&#8216;s new <strong>Cirque du Soleil<\/strong> show,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/vacationplanner-showdetail.cfm?ShowID=665\" target=\"_self\" class=\"broken_link\"> <em>Zarkana<\/em><\/a>, is &#8230; you&#8217;re not alone. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shoplva.com\/products\/i-get-paid-for-this-ebook\" target=\"_self\" class=\"broken_link\"><em>I Get Paid for This<\/em><\/a> author <strong>Rick Lax<\/strong> is puzzled by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shoplva.com\/products\/i-get-paid-for-this-ebook\" target=\"_blank&gt;&lt;i&gt;I Get Paid for This&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/a&gt; author Rick Lax muses upon &lt;a href=\" class=\"broken_link\">the strange, stealthy run-up<\/a> to a show that CdS prexy <strong>Daniel Lamarre<\/strong> has described as &#8220;a sure bet.&#8221; Perhaps <strong>MGM Resorts International<\/strong> is trying to manage expectations, having fallen on its bum with <em>Viva Elvis<\/em>. The company recently disclosed to <strong>Wall Street<\/strong> analysts that <em>Viva Elvis<\/em> was losing $15 million a year, while old reliable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/vacationplanner-showdetail.cfm?ShowID=35\" target=\"_self\"><em>O<\/em><\/a> is believed to do an annual profit of $30 million. Since <em>Zarkana<\/em> is essentially &#8220;pre-paid&#8221; by having been extensively road-tested in <strong>New York Cit<\/strong>y and across <strong>Europe<\/strong>, the potential upside for MGM is enormous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I did on my summer vacation<\/strong>. If you&#8217;re in Vegas this weekend or next, you can<!--more-->catch yours truly moonlighting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegascitylife.com\/sections\/ae\/stage\/bard-bone-david-mckee%E2%80%99s-production-diary-takes-us-behind-scenes-intense-stripped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a 95-minute version<\/a> of <strong>Shakespeare<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Hamlet<\/em>, as <strong>Polonius<\/strong>. Blink and you&#8217;ll miss me in these performance excerpts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been wondering where the pre-opening buzz for Aria&#8216;s new Cirque du Soleil show, Zarkana, is &#8230; you&#8217;re not alone. I Get Paid for This author Rick Lax is puzzled by the strange, stealthy run-up to a show that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/zark-who\/\">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":[80,56,28,4,53,11,9,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621"}],"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=9621"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24768,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621\/revisions\/24768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}