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| - I am not a dancer, but I have a history in Theater, so I have a fairly high expectation when it comes to shows. Also, this is Las Vegas, which is kinda the Broadway of Burlesque style shows, so I expect a certain minimal quality.
This show is awful. It is "Pinup with Claire Sinclair" and Claire Sinclair was only in about 10 minutes of the whole show. Then again, she couldn't dance, and didn't sing, so it was probably good she wasn't in it more. The theme of the show is a pinup calendar, with each musical number corresponding with a month. There is a live band on stage, a lead singer, 4 females dancers, one male dancer, and Claire Sinclair.
The problem is that it felt choppy and disjointed. The set designs were pretty good, but the flow of the show was broken up by the set change after each number, and one month didn't really correspond with the next. The lighting and sound crew seemed amateur, and the mic kept cutting out every time the lead singer hit a high note.
The band was pretty good, but the drummer had a little problem keeping tempo steady, so none of the dancers were in sync. Beyond that, the dancers were sloppy. Their movements weren't sharp, and their arms were rubbery rather than "popping."
The girls didn't seem to care, the smiles seemed forced, and the one male dancer in the show made several mistakes including kicking on of the female dancers in her calf during one of the numbers. The overall feeling we got from this cast was, "We're just going through the motions until this show can be cancelled"
All in all, I've seen high school dance troops that felt more polished and professional than the dancers in this show, and nothing about this was worthy of the $50 ticket price. With all of the shows available in this town, I'm astounded that this show wasn't cancelled after the first week.
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