Las Vegas Hairspray Closing?

Has anyone heard about this? i heard some mention of it.

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Closes June 11th !!!

Just a few days left !!!

Sorry to hear about this, but there is something to be said about condensing the show and not having it be a hit.

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Closing notice

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Updated On: 6/6/06 at 10:09 AM

I saw this coming. I even posted this would happen when the heavy discount coupons started popping up and some of you came down hard on me. I think Phantom and Spamalot will have similar fates. Vegas is not a theater town.

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i find it ironic that anyone feels like Broadway in the Desert would BE successful. Las Vegas is all about tacky people with no taste. they should just open up CATS there already...

"they should just open up CATS there already..."

CATS... topless.

Phantom might work because of its spectacle. Spectacle obviously fits in well in Vegas. Spamalot may do well too becasue it's more of a "frat boy" type of humor, so that might go over well in Vegas rather than a grown man in a dress like Hairspray.

Sorry to hear this! I wanted to see Austin Miller again as Link Larkin. Maybe now he will get the chance to do it on Broadway.

Vegas is more of a place for "Cats", "Mamma Mia" (the audience probably knows all the songs) or Circus shows. They don't seem to be able to handle good shows.

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When does Light In The Piazza open in Vegas?

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Broadway belongs in NYC. To try and replecate it in Vegas is not a good odea. And it seems as if that is proving true.

Because I love PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and THE PRODUCERS so very much, I hope for their sake they get SOMETHING from opening out there... but after all this and the attitudes, I am not expecting much.

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"When does Light In The Piazza open in Vegas?"

When they add in staging where the daughter gets topless.

Seriously... I don't know if many of you have noticed, but even though the bigger casinos are trying this Broadway thing, the main "shaping" going on in Vegas is going back to their "Sin City" roots. Remember? "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas". There's a reason the tourist commission is using that slogan. More and More blue bar reviews are again popping up in the dessert and for good reason. THAT'S what's making the money again.

Remember when they tried the family atmosphere in Vegas? MGM GRAND had a theme park, and that was when all those rollercoasters and themed hotels were built. That lasted less than a decade. Now they're going back the adult playland.

These broadway shows will stick around as a form of entertainment, but they won't do well on their own. They're there mainly for alternate entertainment choices... and if the show isn't doing particularly well, they'll start offering their frequent players free tickets to see those shows. I don't think they'll close a show until they get to a point of 35% paid capacity.

I predict that Phantom will do well in it's first 6 months because of the large marketing push in existance right now. Within a year it will be part of the Vegas landscape. They'll push the technical aspects of the show and may have a total run of two years - or until the Venetian makes it's money back from the initial inestment.

Updated On: 6/6/06 at 11:37 AM

Let's also not forget that the Vegas WE know isn't the Vegas that the locals know. The Vegas WE know is made of tourists - and they're the ones that would go see these shows.

Vegas locals actually DO have taste. They travel if they want to see something of quality. It's the tourists that don't know any better because they're not going to Vegas for the shows.