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NEW YORK — The Kats! Bureau astatine this penning is Boulevard Carroll Entertainment Group rehearsal studios successful Midtown Manhattan. Las Vegas is heavy contiguous arsenic Bob Anderson and his orchestra rehearses his “One More For The Road Show” acceptable for Saturday nighttime astatine Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage.
The Auditorium is the Big Room among large rooms, opening successful May 1891 with headliner Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The famed Russian composer’s show of “Marche solennelle” earned him a $5,000 quality fee. That’s astir $152,000 successful modern-day money, and astir a afloat year’s wage for a conductor successful those days. This, with nary pyro, LED walls oregon backing dancers.
The scene: W/ #BobAnderson & orchestra, rehearsing “One More For The Road,” @ Boulevard Carroll Entertainment Group studios successful #NYC. Revival of his “Frank. The Man. The Music.” amusement astatine Palazzo Theater successful 2014-2015. #RJNow @reviewjournal pic.twitter.com/WXn61QnmhO
— John Katsilometes (@johnnykats) December 9, 2021
More from this scene, and beyond:
Adele’s tix
As anticipated, the “Weekends With Adele” tickets are taxing to the takers connected Ticketmaster. The Verified Fan Presale was delayed by a time by an Amazon Web Services crash. Finally posted Wednesday, prices ran from astir $316 successful the Colosseum’s precocious regions to much than $4,500 for Platinum VIP successful the beforehand orchestra section. Prices started astatine $450 successful the 2nd and 3rd sections backmost astatine the Colosseum, which seats astir 4,100 for Adele’s shows.
Several contacts successful the Vegas amusement assemblage said they experienced agelong waits, and tickets dissipated fast. Some who qualified were repeatedly bounced from the strategy earlier being capable to decorativeness the purchase. Some were bounced, and ne'er made it back.
Dria Baum, an amusement enforcement astatine House of Aces sports/entertainment selling company, cleared the hurdles to find a spot listed for $316. She said, “I’m not paying $316 for atrocious seats, oregon the leap to $698 for mediocre seats to spot Adele. I emotion her, but not that much.”
Amanda King, a fashionable vocalist successful Las Vegas (she’s astatine The Mob Museum connected NYE), hopscotched done the online directives, lone to beryllium KO’d by a strategy pause. “The strategy crashed astatine 1 point, and past froze a mates times,” King reported successful existent clip arsenic she worked done the steps. “I click connected the NEXT fastener and thing happens … Now, each sold out.” Of her attempts to spot Adele’s archetypal ticketed amusement since 2017, King said, “The full process was a kerfuffle of epic proportions.”
A batch to see with this show. The secondary marketplace prices, arsenic reported previously, person outpaced Ticketmaster’s basal listings. StubHub for a clip was offering 2 VIP seats for astir $30,000 connected Tuesday (before the amusement adjacent went connected sale), but has since re-calibrated and are offering spots person to the Ticketmaster prices. Thursday, SeatGeek was listing spots upstairs starting astatine $1,467 apiece. LasVegasTickets.com offers ran from astir $2,200 to $11,000.
The full spot availability of the Colosseum for Adele’s tally is conscionable nether 100,000. But it’s astir apt person to 75,000 oregon 80,000 aft casino, promoter and creator “holds” are considered. There is nary question the hype for Adele’s shows is real. I can’t callback a residency amusement that has sparked truthful overmuch attraction oregon speech since Celine Dion opened the Colosseum successful 2003.
Not everyone gets to play, though. Adele is simply a lawsuit of proviso and demand, creator capitalism successful action. With that, I’m playing “30,” large creation astatine an affordable price.
Treviño tees off
Steve Treviño has expanded from the drama clubs of Vegas, and elsewhere, to a headlining relation astatine Mirage Theater. Treviño’s archetypal amusement successful the Aces of Comedy bid is 10 p.m. Thursday. After performing astir 250 roadworthy dates per year, Treviño reinvented his attack during the shutdown, gathering much than 714,000 followers connected TikTok and much than 170 cardinal societal media views. He and his wife, Renae, co-host “Steve Treviño & Captain Evil: The Podcast,” and he’s starring successful the “My Life In Quarantine,” drama peculiar connected Amazon.
Treviño has since opened for Pitbull astatine Bert Ogden Arena successful Edinburg, Texas, warming up a assemblage of 20,000. He’s big, successful short. He’s besides a comparably uncommon comic of Mexican-American practice cutting done arsenic a theatre headliner. “The database is short,” says Treviño, who is pursuing Gabriel Iglesias and George Lopez arsenic Latin headliners successful the Aces series.
But he’s developed an enactment that is directed to a wide taste audience.
“I americium revolutionizing what it is to beryllium a Latino stand-up comedian,”Treviño said successful a caller telephone chat. “I americium doing stand-up drama successful a mode that nary different Latino stand-up drama comic has ever done. What I mean by that is, being Latino is not my punch line. Being Latino is not my income tool. I enactment everything connected conscionable being a large stand-up.”
But helium comic does allow, “You find a batch of Mexican-Americans, Latinos successful general, who go, ‘That’s our guy.’ The crushed is being, arsenic a Mexican-American comedian, we are not represented well. You look astatine the achromatic community, and each facet of being a achromatic antheral oregon a achromatic pistillate successful America is represented among respective great, celebrated achromatic comedians, from Katt Williams each the mode to Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Mike Epps and the database goes connected on on.
“But for us, the database ends beauteous quickly.”
With his Aces debut, Treviño tin lone adhd to that lineup.
Paging Dan Tanna
The Front Yard astatine Ellis Island is hosting a 1970s-themed enactment for New Year’s Eve. Dinner seatings are 5:30, 6, 8:30 and 9:30 p.m.. Guests request to crook their tables aft 3 hours. But attendees inactive tin enactment for the enactment and amusement disconnected their wrapper dresses, leisure suits and (where applicable) Hai Karate. Hit the ellisislandcasino.com tract for the specs.
Great Moments successful Social Media
Harrah’s Showroom headliner and erstwhile “Masked Singer” finalist Donny Osmond, thanked fans for wishing him a blessed day with an Instagram Reels post. Osmond did truthful successful his Wizard costume from his quality successful “Pantoland At The Palladium” successful London. Osmond missed 3 shows due to the fact that of an undisclosed wounded Saturday, but was backmost onstage Tuesday. He turned 64 connected Thursday.
Something successful the air
On the taxable of Osmonds, however about Marie Osmond astatine The Smith Center successful 2022? There is question successful that direction. Osmond, often with “America’s Got Talent” finalist and Vegas vocalist Daniel Emmet as a impermanent star, has performed respective performing-arts centers since the Donny & Marie amusement closed astatine Flamingo successful November 2019.
And this
“Wayne Newton: Up Close & Personal” should beryllium backmost onstage, astatine the Wayne Newton Theater astatine Bugsy’s Cabaret, successful precocious January. Got the mitt acceptable for the adjacent pitch, wrong the week. Newton plays Robins Theatre successful Warren, Ohio, connected Saturday, a gig booked a portion agone adjacent Cleveland, hometown of his wife, Kathleen, and sister-in-law, Tricia McCrone. It’s his archetypal ticketed amusement successful astir 20 months.
Cool Hang Alert
Travis Cloer hosts “Christmas astatine My Place” Sunday astatine Italian American Club. Doors astatine 6 p.m., meal astatine 6:30-7 p.m. and the amusement astatine 8. The erstwhile “Jersey Boys” formed subordinate ever delivers (meaning, his show is simply a gift) successful these vacation shows. Go to iacvegas.com for the info.
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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