The one star was only because I couldn't give negative stars! So... We heard Mark Curry was doing a one nighter there. I went to ticketmaster and there it was...but I couldn't get it to let me purchase tickets. So I called Red Rock box office and they told me to call ticketmaster. Ticketmaster couldn't get it to work either but confirmed Curry was scheduled. In a few minutes it displayed Rita Rudner/ Mark Curry so I hurried and bought front row center tix! Feeling good cuz it wasn't highway robbery. About 130.00 for two seats. We drive four hours from California, arrive at Red Rock... Get to the Lounge... Still nobody knows anything... The marquee outside only says Rudner.
The seating is a joke! Cheap metal chairs on the dance floor touching each other , we were in so tight it was shoulder to shoulder and packed. Hubby and I were clearly the youngest ones there by at least a decade. I could smell the Ben Gay on the guy two seats over and hear every word of the conversation three rows back . It was not comfortable!
A local ( and yes funny) dj comes out and jokes it up for about 20 minutes. Then Rudner came out. End of show. No drinks offered, which would be hard to sip because I think the guy next to me would have had it easier to drink anything in my hand... We were that close.
There were piles of trash on the floor from old folks sneaking candy and cokes in. It looked like a movie theatre after two kids only matinees!
So here's the bad part!
I asked an usher after the show what happened to Mark Curry, she left and returned and told me said anyone with answers was gone for the night! As we walked out, sticking to spilled Coke and tripping on piles of trash , we see the dj at the exit into the casino from the lounge... I figured I'd ask her... Maybe illness? Apparently she might have been the person I needed ... But she just kept thanking her friends for coming and for spreading the tickets ... And every time I thought my patience might pay off.. She would take a couple steps away from me and start shaking hands with her buddies again!
My opinion is that I may have been the only paying customer in the place! I am sooooo angry! If I had been notified that curry wasn't coming I could have cancelled and gone somewhere else. Filthy cheap venue that was a sham! I'm disappointed!