WHAT IS HAPPENING IN VEGAS!!!!
February 21, 2009 by admin · 3 Comments
AMERICAN STORM
What do you get when you pluck your average boys-next-door off the street, put them on a reality TV show and teach them to dance? It’s American Storm, the hot male revue at V Theater inside the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet…
PENN and TELLER
They defy labels, and at times, good taste. They’ve performed together for 30 years; skewering the genre of magic, their sold-out audiences, and themselves — very often all at the same time, within one mind-boggling evening. September is an exciting month for the duo as they celebrate their fifth year as headliners in their own theater at the Rio All-suite Hotel & Casino, as well as two Emmy nominations for their Showtime series, “Penn & Teller: Bullshit!” BLUE MAN GROUP
When you attend a Blue Man Group show, you don’t see a show, you have an experience. This unique theatrical production complete with GRAMMY-nominated live music, outrageous performances, and colorful paint is unlike anything you’ve seen before. Dubbed “visually stunning”, “wildly inventive”, and “hysterically funny,” Blue Man Group will take you on a multi-sensory journey to explore music, art, and your connections to the world around you, virtually or otherwise. You can catch Blue Man Group’s award-winning theatrical show at The Venetian® Hotel Resort Casino, right in the heart of the Las Vegas strip. JERSEY BOYS
How did four blue-collar kids become one of the greatest successes in pop music history? Find out at Broadway’s runaway smash-hit, Jersey Boys, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2006 that takes you up the charts, across the country and behind the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. As Clive Barnes in the New York Post says, “It’s just too good to be true.” Discover the secret of a 40-year friendship: four blue-collar kids working their way from the streets of Newark to the heights of stardom. And experience electrifying performances of the golden greats that took these guys all the way to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “Dawn,” “My Eyes Adored You,” and more. The New York Times says, “The crowd goes wild!” PHANTOM - THE LAS VEGAS SPECTACULAR
Experience the world’s most recognized musical theatre masterpiece, The
Phantom of the Opera, as you’ve never seen it before. The Venetian Resort • Hotel • Casino is home to “Phantom - The Las Vegas Spectacular,” an all-new
production of the most influential musical of all time.
Phantom at The Venetian reunites Andrew Lloyd Webber, director Hal Prince, choreographer Gillian Lynne and others from the show’s original creative team, who together reconceived their show into a 95-minute spectacular, including each and every song from the original production. From the moment you enter the magnificent custom-built theatre, you find yourself in the famed Paris Opera House immediately entranced in the Phantom’s world. WAYNE BRADY
There’s something old-Vegas about the very term “all-around performer.” While modern Top 40 stars might interpret that as, “Get me a movie deal before the record industry folds!” Brady has modeled himself into an improv-comedy version of cabaret legends such as Ben Vereen and Sammy Davis Jr. If there’s a market left for someone who imitates Prince, and makes up funny stuff while he’s doing it, Brady will be here a long, long time. COMEDY PET THEATER
Comedy Pet Theater is an extravaganza of juggling, European-style comedy and a furry entourage of performing cats and dogs. A unique and hilarious show featuring 15 cats and 8 amazing dogs, all who have been rescued from animal shelters. The ring-leader is Moscow Circus Superstar and Master juggler Gregory Popovich. A real family-friendly show!
FAB FOUR LIVE
Wig out to John, Paul, George and Ringo at the V Theater in the Miracle Mile Shops at the Planet Hollywood and Casino, Las Vegas! The Beatles tribute band, Fab Four Live, performs all the hits, from Help and Yesterday to later songs from Sergeant Pepper, Abbey Road and Let It Be. You won’t believe your eyes and ears!
SCARLETT- PRINCESS OF MAGIC
Scarlett- Princess of Magic at V- Theater inside the Miracle Mile shops at Planet Hollywood is a dazzling revue featuring the stunning beauty and spectacular illusions of one of the most talented female magicians in the world…
STRIPPER 101
Stripper 101 is the ultimate Las Vegas experience that allows women of all ages, shapes, and sizes to unleash their inner bombshell with pole dancing! Featured in USA Today and the Los Angeles Times, Stripper 101 is considered the most famous class of its kind worldwide. MESMERIZED
Mesmerized, with master hypnotist Marc Savard, is back at the V Theater at Planet Hollywood. Don’t miss this energetic mix of comedy, hypnosis, and mayhem in what is sure to be the wildest show on the Strip!
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND LAUNCH 2009 US AND EUROPEAN TOUR - FIND TICKETS, VENUE’S AND DATES!
February 9, 2009 by admin · 2 Comments
5-STAR (ROLLING STONE) NEW ALBUM ‘WORKING ON A DREAM’ - (COLUMBIA RECORDS) OUT NOW: Bruce Springsteen said, “Towards the end of recording ‘Magic,’ excited by the return to pop production sounds, I continued writing. When my friend producer Brendan O’Brien heard the new songs, he said, ‘Let’s keep going.’ Over the course of the next year, that’s just what we did, recording with the E Street Band during the breaks on last year’s tour. I hope Working on a Dream has caught the energy of the band fresh off the road from some of the most exciting shows we’ve ever done. All the songs were written quickly, we usually used one of our first few takes, and we all had a blast making this one from beginning to end.” (Photo: www.brucespringsteen.net/news)
‘Working on a Dream’ is Bruce Springsteen’s twenty-fourth album and was recorded and mixed at Southern Tracks in Atlanta, Georgia, with additional recording in New York City, Los Angeles, and New Jersey.
RESPONSE TO FIRST TICKET SALES IN SCANDINAVIA CAUSES SYSTEM CRASH WITH UNPRECEDENTED SALES IN STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN AND BERGEN, NORWAY
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have announced a forthcoming world tour:
When Bruce Springsteen finally broke through to national recognition in the fall of 1975 after a decade of trying, critics hailed him as the savior of rock & roll, the single artist who brought together all the exuberance of ’50s rock and the thoughtfulness of ’60s rock, molded into a ’70s style. He rocked as hard as Jerry Lee Lewis, his lyrics were as complicated as Bob Dylan’s, and his concerts were near-religious celebrations of all that was best in music. One critic became so enamored that he quit reviewing to become Springsteen’s manager.
But the hosannas, when piped through the publicity machine of a major record company, were perceived as hype by a significant part of the public as well as the mainstream media — Springsteen landed on the covers of Time and Newsweek, but both magazines were covering the phenomenon, not the music. Springsteen’s album, Born to Run, became a hit, and he jumped to arena status as a live act, but as many people were turned off by the press campaign as turned on by the records and shows.
Two decades later, however, Springsteen remained an established star who could look back on a career that had produced one of the best-selling albums of all time, sold-out stadium shows, Grammy awards and an Oscar, and a group of imitators who constituted their own subgenre of popular music. If he no longer seemed divine, he remained popular enough for his Greatest Hits album to enter the charts at number one, and he had won over many of those skeptics from 1975.
Growing up in southern New Jersey, Springsteen turned to rock & roll as a teenager and played in a series of bands from the mid-’60s on, varying in style from garage rock to power trio blues-rock. By the early ’70s, he was trying his hand at being a folky singer/songwriter in Greenwich Village. But when he was signed to Columbia Records in 1972, he brought into the studio many of the New Jersey-based musicians with whom he’d played over the years.
The result was Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (January 1973), which went unnoticed upon initial release, though Manfred Mann’s Earth Band would turn its leadoff track, “Blinded by the Light,” into a number one hit four years later. The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (September 1973) also failed to sell despite some rave reviews. (Both albums have since gone platinum.)
The following year, Springsteen revised his backup group — dubbed the E Street Band — settling on a lineup that included saxophone player Clarence Clemons, second guitarist “Miami” Steve Van Zandt, organist Danny Federici, pianist Roy Bittan, bassist Garry Tallent, and drummer Max Weinberg. With this unit he barnstormed the country while working on his third and last chance with Columbia. By the time Born to Run (August 1975) was released, the critics and a significant cult audience were with him, and the title song became a Top 40 hit while the album reached the Top Ten.
What Springsteen needed to do in the wake of the hype, of course, was to play and record more to consolidate his position. He was prevented at least from the latter by a former manager, who kept him in court during the next couple of years. Meanwhile, the musical world changed. Part of the reason critics had welcomed Springsteen so enthusiastically in 1975 was that he seemed a return to basic rock & roll values in a world of soft rock, heavy metal, and art rock.
By the time Springsteen returned with his fourth album, Darkness on the Edge of Town (June 1978), however, the punk/new wave movement had outflanked him, pushing him from the vanguard to the mainstream. Similar sounding heartland rockers such as Bob Seger had appeared, so that Springsteen sounded less like an innovator than a member of an established genre.
Nevertheless, he set about winning fans with an album that found the lost children of his early albums stuck in factory jobs, still longing for some escape. The album was a hit, though it did not match the success of Born to Run. Springsteen returned with the double album The River (October 1980), which topped the charts and featured his first Top Ten hit, “Hungry Heart.”
Nobody was calling him a hype anymore, but Springsteen retreated from his expanding success, next recording the low-key album Nebraska (September 1982), a virtual demo tape on vinyl. (Springsteen did not tour to promote the album, and in the interim E Street Band guitarist Van Zandt amicably left the group for a solo career, to be replaced by Nils Lofgren.)
But then came Born in the U.S.A. (June 1984) and a two-year international tour. The album threw off seven hit singles and sold over ten million copies, putting Springsteen in the pop heavens with Michael Jackson and Prince. After touring for more than a year, he released a five-LP/three-CD concert album, Live/1975-85 (November 1986), which topped the charts.
Characteristically, Springsteen returned with a more introverted effort, Tunnel of Love (October 1987), which presaged his divorce from his first wife. (He married a second time to singer Patti Scialfa, who had joined the E Street Band.)
After another marathon tour, Springsteen gave the E Street Band notice in November 1989, breaking up a celebrated unit who had stayed together 15 years. In March 1992, he simultaneously released Human Touch and Lucky Town, and though the albums premiered near the top of the charts, they were less successful with fans than previous efforts. In the fall, Springsteen taped an MTV Unplugged segment (though he plugged in after one song), and the performance was released as an album in Europe in 1993.
Springsteen continued to tour until July 1993. In the fall, he wrote and recorded “Streets of Philadelphia” for the soundtrack to the film Philadelphia, which concerned a lawyer dying of AIDS. The song became a Top Ten hit in 1994, winning the Academy Award for Best Song and cleaning up at the Grammys the following year. At the same time, Springsteen had readied his Greatest Hits album (February 1995), reassembling the E Street Band to record a few new tracks. The album was an immediate best-seller. Springsteen followed it with The Ghost of Tom Joad (November 1995), another low-key, downcast, near-acoustic effort and embarked upon a brief solo tour. In 1999, shortly after his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Springsteen reunited with the E Street Band (including both Lofgren and Van Zandt on guitars) and embarked on a world tour that lasted until mid-2000, its final dates resulting in the album Live in New York City.
He then made his first new full-length studio album to feature the group as a whole since Born in the U.S.A., The Rising, his first album of new studio recordings since The Ghost of Tom Joad. Released in July 2002, it was followed by another successful tour and recording sessions for a new album, released as Devils & Dust in 2005. One year later he released the first covers album of his career, a tribute to the songs of Pete Seeger titled We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. Live in Dublin, featuring concert tracks done on the tour supporting the Seeger project, was released on both CD and DVD in 2007. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
TICKETS TO ROMANCE - VALENTINE’S DAY EVENTS GUIDE!!
February 3, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
This Valentine’s Day, why not go for the wow factor? Sure, flowers and chocolates are nice, but tickets to a hot event will create quality time for you and your Valentine. Whatever your sweetheart fancies, you can surprise them with tickets to an event they’re sure to love. With the Chinese New Year celebrations at an end, get in the mood for romance with Valentine’s Day. Every year February 14, is celebrated as Saint Valentines Day all across the world. Valentine’s Day is the most awaited day of the year for everybody. There is a holiday on this day so that all lovers can enjoy and express there feelings to one whom they love. Even though the history of St. Valentine’s Day and the patron Saint behind it is shrouded in mystery but we treat month of February as the Month of Romance. This day involves mutual exchange of Valentines. Loved ones celebrate by presenting flowers, gifts , offering candies ,sending e cards , sending love messages and much more all in the name of St. Valentine, the patron saint of lovers - this year surprise the love of your heart and present them with tickets to a hot event that will create quality time for you and your Valentine. .
 Billy Joel & Elton John |
 Nickelback |
 Britney Spears |
 Fleetwood Mac |
 Wicked |
 The Phantom of the Opera |
 Spring Awakening |
 Jeff Dunham |
 College Basketball |
 NBA |
 NHL |
 MLB |
GIFT CHECKLIST:
1) Country Music Concerts 2) Broadway Shows 3) Comedy Shows
4) Museum Attractions 5) Off Broadway Shows 6) Cirque du Soleil Shows
OR… PLAN A ROMANTIC LIVE ENTERTAINMENT GETAWAY!!
 New York |
 Las Vegas Shows |
 Branson |
 Los Angeles |
The reinvention of Saint Valentine’s Day in the 1840s has been traced by Leigh Eric Schmidt. As a writer in Graham’s American Monthly observed in 1849, “Saint Valentine’s Day… is becoming, nay it has become, a national holyday. “In the United States, the first mass-produced valentines of embossed paper lace were produced and sold shortly after 1847 by Esther Howland (1828-1904) of Worcester, Massachusetts. Her father operated a large book and stationery store, but Howland took her inspiration from an English valentine she had received, so clearly the practice of sending Valentine’s cards had existed in England before it became popular in North America. The English practice of sending Valentine’s cards appears in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mr. Harrison’s Confessions (published 1851). Since 2001, the Greeting Card Association has been giving an annual “Esther Howland Award for a Greeting Card Visionary.” The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately one billion valentines are sent each year worldwide, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. The association estimates that women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines.
Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards. The mid-nineteenth century Valentine’s Day trade was a harbinger of further commercialized holidays in the United States to follow. In the second half of the twentieth century, the practice of exchanging cards was extended to all manner of gifts in the United States, usually from a man to a woman. Such gifts typically include roses and chocolates packed in a red satin, heart-shaped box. In the 1980s, the diamond industry began to promote Valentine’s Day as an occasion for giving jewelry. The day has come to be associated with a generic platonic greeting of “Happy Valentine’s Day.” As a joke, Valentine’s Day is also referred to as “Singles Awareness Day.” In some North American elementary schools, children decorate classrooms, exchange cards, and eat sweets. The greeting cards of these students often mention what they appreciate about each other.
The rise of Internet popularity at the turn of the millennium is creating new traditions. Millions of people use, every year, digital means of creating and sending Valentine’s Day greeting messages such as e-cards, love coupons or printable greeting cards.
