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Simon Cowell’s “dream travel true,” arsenic helium presumption it, is taking signifier astatine Luxor.
As it happens, the big is simply a Preacher. The impermanent prima is an creator who really preaches.
“America’s Got Talent Las Vegas Live” has named play 12 finalist Preacher Lawson arsenic host, and play 15 champ Brandon Leake successful its opening formed erstwhile the amusement premieres Nov. 12. Lawson, a stand-up comic, is simply a play 12 finalist who appeared connected “America’s Got Talent: The Champions.”
Leake is simply a spoken-word creator and the underdog champ of play 15. The victor of play 16 is besides awarded a spot successful the show’s dedicated cast.
“Audiences volition beryllium capable to bask immoderate of the astir unthinkable – and memorable – talents we person seen connected AGT successful the past 16 years,” said Cowell, the show’s creator. “And, of course, they’ll besides get to spot this year’s winner. To beryllium capable to enactment connected an AGT residency successful the satellite superior of unrecorded amusement is simply a imagination travel true.”
The accumulation brings NBC show’s talent, but not contention format, to the Vegas stage. So, nary judges oregon graduation to a championship. The amusement runs doubly nightly, 5 nights per week, astatine 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays done Sundays. (tickets are $49, not including fees, astatine mgmresorts.com, luxor.com, AGTVegasLive.com oregon astatine immoderate MGM Resorts International container office).
The afloat lineup for the “AGT Live” Luxor show:
*Kodi Lee, the play 14 victor and enormously fashionable vocalist. His audition video has drawn much than 50 cardinal views crossed societal media.
*Deadly Games, the knife-throwing, information duo Alfredo and Anna Silva, that earned a Golden Buzzer during play 11 and besides connected “The Champions” series. The mates were besides featured astir precocious successful the now-closed “Celestia” astatine The Strat.
*Duo Transcend, play 13 show artists Mary Wolfe-Nielsen and Tyce Nielsen of Salt Lake City, who specialize successful duo trapeze, aerial silk, tramp wall, diving, and acting.
*The Clairvoyants, the Austrian mentalism duo Thomas Höschele and Christina Gruber, finalists successful play 11, won by Grace VanderWaal.
*The Silhouettes, the shadow-performance troupe from Denver and season-six runner-up. A Golden Buzzer enactment from “The Champions.”
*Light Balance, the Ukranian, LED creation radical that was a Golden Buzzer recipient and finalist successful play 12.
Luxor President and CEO Chuck Bowling nodded to the sheer scope of acts and cultures represented successful the unrecorded show.
“Luxor is known for offering a divers lineup of amusement and this archetypal database of acts for ‘America’s Got Talent Las Vegas Live’ showcases our continued commitment,” Bowling said successful a statement.
Over the decades, Luxor Theater has been location to Blue Man Group; the philharmonic “Hairspray”; a headlining bid featuring Liza Minnelli, Chicago and Earth Wind & Fire; Criss Angel; and the Cirque experiment, “R.U.N.” Not a spoken-word creator among ‘em.
Anderson out
A fable among vocal impressionists, Bob Anderson has been forced to telephone disconnected his 3 dates this play aft investigating affirmative for COVID. Anderson is present nether quarantine successful Charleston, S.C. No connection yet connected his vaccination presumption related to an unwellness that undercut shows acceptable for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
About 2 1/2 years ago, Anderson had Broadway dreams for his Frank Sinatra tribute show, which nether the rubric “Frank. The Man. The Music.” headlined Palazzo Theater from December 2014 done November 2015. Anderson had taken Tony Award-winner Eva Price and her partner, Carl Flanigan arsenic the musical’s wide managers nether their Maximum Entertainment Company operation.
Those plans unwound arsenic COVID interrupted the group’s hunt for a Broadway theater, and besides for immoderate interior ineligible wrangling. Instead, Anderson is mounting up a headlining amusement astatine Carnegie Hall connected Dec. 11, a time earlier Sinatra’s birthday. Tickets are to spell onsale adjacent month.
He’s en fuego
A smoldering tribute returns to the signifier astatine 6 p.m. Saturday astatine Starbright Theatre successful Sun City Summerlin. Serpentine Fire, featuring vocal large Tyriq Johnson, ends a layoff dating to (you guessed it) March 2020. As the rubric indicates, Serpentine Fire is an Earth Wind & Fire tribute. EWF fans emotion this band. My ma is 1 of them. She flew successful from Boise, Idaho, a mates years agone to spot Tyriq and the crew. True story.
The Hendrix anthem
Nazim Chambi, who plays Jimi Hendrix successful “27” astatine 24 Oxford astatine Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, is performing the nationalist anthem astatine the Aviators’ season-ending location crippled against the Albuquerque Isotopes connected Sept. 24. This should beryllium interesting. Chambi plays a conception of Hendrix’s iconic mentation of the anthem during the amusement astatine 24 Oxford. Word is helium mightiness code it down a spot for the shot game.
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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