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NEW YORK — Mark Shunock is sharing sushi successful a edifice conscionable abbreviated jaunt from Bernard Jacobs Theater, wherever aboriginal he’s taking successful a show of “Company.” He’s prepping for the upcoming Vasiliy Lomachenko-Richard Commey combat Top Rank Boxing paper astatine Madison Square Garden, which he’s announcing.
Shunock is punching retired messages connected his iPhone, portion talking eagerly of Mondays Dark successful Las Vegas. The foundation amusement is celebrating its eighth day Monday nighttime astatine the Theater astatine Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. Shunock yet sets his telephone aside, for a moment, astatine extremity of the meal. He does this due to the fact that array mate Emily Jillette has asked him to.
But Shunock can’t relax. As helium speaks, helium unconsciously folds a napkin into a choky square, arsenic if punctuating his point.
“We person 21 charities, acceptable to denote for adjacent year. That magnet for your refrigerator, listing them all, is ready,” says Shunock, ever the multitasker. “We person ne'er repeated a foundation successful 8 years, and I deliberation determination are implicit 300 connected our hold list. It’s unthinkable however galore nonprofits are successful Las Vegas.”
The amusement is acceptable for 8 p.m. Monday astatine the Theater, formerly The Joint astatine the Hard Rock Hotel, wherever each Mondays Dark day enactment has been staged since 2014. Tickets sold retired a fewer hours aft Shunock folded his napkin, but you tin livestream the lawsuit astatine MondaysDark.com.
The amusement is led by Shunock arsenic emcee, naturally. Kenny Davidson is backmost arsenic euphony director, with Jassen Allen and Paige Strafella arsenic the regular featured singers. Travis Cloer, Franky Perez, Skye Dee Miles and the formed of “iLuminate” astatine The Strat are among the performers.
Shunock is moving accelerated to 2022, returning to the Mondays Dark location astatine the Space for twice-monthly events. The capableness is capped astatine 250, a spot much spaced retired than the archetypal design, which Shunock says felt similar “a sardine can.”
As for this Monday, the lawsuit laminitis says, “The effect has been truthful strong, we’re making it each astir the fundraising and celebrating these charities. The information that we’re inactive here, astir 2 years done the pandemic, is important. Now we’ve got to rise immoderate wealth and extremity connected a precocious note.”
Downtown’s shot
Column fave Amy Saunders, who created the Miss Behave persona and improv crippled amusement of the aforesaid name, is taking implicit Cheapshots task connected Fremont East. Saunders describes the 3,000-square ft nightspot arsenic a premix of “comedy, variety, burlesque, circus, soiled disco and drag.” Better update the wardrobe.
Saunders is looking for artists from astir the country and astir the satellite for the Corner Bar Management project. She’s posted arsenic overmuch connected Instagram. So, if you tin juggle chainsaws, compression into thimble oregon swallow a machete, accidental knocks.
We expect much details arsenic this task takes signifier successful January. But it’s wide we are a agelong outcry from Bally’s, wherever Saunders’ “Miss Behave” erstwhile held residency. The show’s creator has ever seemed a amended acceptable for downtown.
Clearing the confusion
Despite an Instagram station saying helium was owed backmost astatine House of Blues astatine Mandalay Bay this week, Carlos Santana is inactive acceptable to beryllium backmost Jan. 26. The stone superstar precocious underwent a bosom process and canceled each of his December dates. The station was an errant, automated update for societal media.
Santana’s manager Michael Vrionis, president of Universal Tone Management, said Saturday that Santana would beryllium back. “He’s feeling overmuch better, and is acceptable to travel back, stronger than ever.”
Finding Falcone
Danny Falcone, successful New York implicit the play with Bob Anderson’s “One More For The Road” Frank Sinatra amusement astatine Carnegie Hall, has been astir legends since helium was a kid. His precocious father, Vince Falcone, was Frank Sinatra’s euphony manager for a decade. Danny adjacent referred to Sinatra arsenic “Grandpa.”
Falcone, a maestro trumpet player, contracted the musicians for the Anderson amusement and is besides onstage. Over the years he’s been a mainstay successful Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns and backed respective superstars, including Celine Dion and Lady Gaga. He told the New York Post’s Page Six, successful Friday’s edition, of the quality betwixt the 2 headliners.
“Celine likes hard rock,” Falcone said. “We would bash dependable checks, and she would privation to sing Metallica and AC/DC.”
Gaga, Falcone said is “very committed” to the jazz format “and paying homage to the radical who’ve done it earlier her.” Gaga’s bequest with Tony Bennett is grounds capable of her passionateness for jazz artistry.
Falcone’s remark astir Dion brought to caput the VHI “Divas Las Vegas” amusement from May 2002. Dion performed a screen of “You Shook Me All Night Long” that night, on with Anastacia. For the uninitiated, that’s an AC/DC classic, and let’s person it successful the acceptable database astatine Resorts World Theatre.
Tease this
A large stone enactment is readying a depository successful a salient Vegas resort. More connected this erstwhile I wide the decks.
Cool Hang Alert
The Composers Showcase of Las Vegas is moving backmost to a aboriginal clip slot, 9:30 p.m. Wednesday astatine Myron’s astatine The Smith Center. As it happens, galore of the composers are getting backmost to work, not capable to consistently deed the 7:30 p.m. mark. This is good. Host and co-founder Keith Thompson welcomes ace composers Dennis Blair, Bernie Banks, Joe Chavira, Adam Dunson, Rylan Leo Helmuth, Chadwick Johnson, David Wachs, Tymara Walker, Camden West, Mark Wherry and Justin Young. At slightest 1 of these composers person performed successful underwear onstage. Giving it the aged assemblage try, arsenic we say. Check retired the deets astatine TheSmithCenter.com.
John Katsilometes’ file runs regular successful the A section. His “PodKats!” podcast tin beryllium recovered astatine reviewjournal.com/podcasts. Contact him astatine jkatsilometes@reviewjournal.com. Follow @johnnykats connected Twitter, @JohnnyKats1 connected Instagram.
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