For Vegas show, Katy Perry teases set list, ‘mushroom hat’

Katy Perry understands Las Vegas audiences. So she’s playing to the assemblage erstwhile her “Play” residency opens astatine Resorts World Theatre connected Dec. 29.

“The Vegas assemblage is different, radical determination for bachelor oregon bachelorette parties, they mightiness beryllium determination for a convention, it mightiness beryllium someone’s day — I’m 21 finally, woo hoo!” Perry told “Access Hollywood Weekend” co-host (and Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium in-game co-host) Sibley Scoles in a clip posted Wednesday. “Knowing that, I’m nary fool. I americium going to to beryllium singing each the hits.”

Perry described her simple-yet-logical strategy to picking the songs to play successful “Play.”

“I took the apical 20 songs disconnected of each the streamers, and that’s my acceptable list,” Perry said. “I’ll remix a few, springiness a fewer a benignant of look lift. It’s going to beryllium an upbeat show.”

Perry has revisited a mates of her favourite movies, “Honey I Shrunk The Kids” and “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” during the pandemic. Elements from some titles tin beryllium recovered successful her upcoming production.

“You’re getting larger than life, you mightiness get a puppet oregon two,” Perry said. “I’m fundamentally a doll, and present are immoderate of the costumes.”

Perry said her Vegas amusement volition play retired arsenic an hold of her tours, the past of which was 2018.

“Every circuit I’ve been connected and enactment retired determination successful the world, I’ve enactment truthful overmuch into it, it’s been feast for some the eyes and the ears,” the superstar said. “My tours are precise experiential. You consciousness precise immersed successful them. I effort to enactment precise adjacent to the crowd. There’s immoderate sensory happening going on. The contented is apical notch. The costumes are wild. And each of that is successful Vegas.”

Perry showed Scoles a fewer sketches of her costumes. One is simply a purple fig with a elephantine bow connected the back, successful which Perry is lowered into a furniture by a large manus (kind of a vending-machine effect). Another is simply a terrycloth towel decorated with rhinestones for a bath scene. Yet different is simply a bubble overgarment — yes, a overgarment made of bubbles that airy up.

Perry besides showed disconnected a Wild West, “psychedelic cowboy” number. She’s said, “I’m wearing a mushroom hat, which is precise integral to the communicative line.” Good usage of chaps successful that one, too.

Perry’s residency volition tally alongside Adele’s at the Colosseum astatine Caesars Palace. The 2 unrecorded comparatively adjacent to each different successful L.A. Perry offered to carpool to Vegas with her co-headliner.

“I’m decidedly going to her show, for sure,” said Perry, who seems to person a enactment connected tickets to spot Adele. “And she’s decidedly invited to mine.”

Perry has seemingly game-planned the city, and her big hotel, extensively.

“It’s large that Vegas is that one-stop shop. It’s truly an experiential place, ‘Come spot Adele connected Friday, travel spot maine connected Saturday,’ ” she said. “Gaga’s there, Bruno is there. There’s truthful overmuch bully nutrient to eat. Resorts World is conscionable like, beware, it’s got immoderate of the champion Asian cuisine you’ve had successful your full beingness … Everything’s delicious. We’re connected a nutrient circuit the full time.”

The superstar expanded, “There are nightclubs, Cirque, fantastic buying … It’s truly wherever you spell to agelong your coin.”

Cool Hang Alert

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