Where did Starlight Express and Chicago play in Vegas?

It's been ages, but I do recall seeing Starlight Express at the Las Vegas Hilton. Don't remember if it was intermission-less or not.

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Any idea as to when thoes two productions were?

I was listing to a podcast that was posted on youtube with Boggess and one of the guys who played the Phantom in the Vegas production. They were talking about how with a lot of Broadway shows doing Vegas productions, that people were consdiering Vegas the Broadway of the west. And well we all know how well that idea turned out to be.

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You would think that with Starlight playing in Vegas that it would have the best racing scenes out of any Starlight production. Instead it sounded more like the scaled down tour just setting up shop in Vegas.

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I saw it when they toured later with the video projections. I remember being so sad.

I did recall a while later they did a Starlight Express on Ice... now that I would have paid to see.

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Mandalay Bay was my second time seeing "Chicago" (out of four times).

It was the full show (not a 90 minute pared down version), but I can't remember if the "Poker sequence" was cut yet or not. I know by the third time I saw it (when it toured back to Seattle), it was gone (as I got to the end of the show and said out loud "Hey! Where's the poker scene???"). I think it may still have been in the show at this point.

I saw it with Marilu Henner (who was a lot better, and more gracious stage dooring afterward than I expected), Mamie Duncan Gibbs as Velma (I think Brenda Braxton just left the week before, but I didn't really mind as Mamie was EXCELLENT!!! She is such a sweetheart! I love her!!!), and Ben Vereen (who was Ben Vereen...).

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