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| - They obviously have changed the theater since the initial Yelp reviews were written; this was in the mezzanine of the big theater at PH; except for a couple of rows of tables and chairs up front, the rest of the venue is normal tiered theater seating, so we had no trouble seeing the whole stage.
I think they also changed the billing, but not enough. Now it's touted as ABBA and disco, but there were only a few of those songs. The rest was stuff like YMCA - and who needs to listen to that? - with the performers in getups modeled from the Jackpot Party slot machine. Calling it "Dancing Queen" is a blatant and obvious attempt to get people to think that they're going to hear mostly ABBA.
After a couple of numbers, they introduced their "Special Guest, the international singing sensation" Avis Ellis (who???), who was unfortunately there for the duration of the show - a screamer whose huge Afro mop of hair would frighten off a Hungarian Puli or Komondor dog, and she used her hair as a prop, flinging her head around just because she could. All that DNA flying out over the audience! The other female singers weren't much better: the blonde had a good voice, but also was a screamer, and the brunette wasn't always on key.
The choreography was often unsynchronized. The song Fernando was a solo performance, with three pairs of dancers in front of her doing a dance routine that was positively klutzy.
The costumes were uninspiring, unworthy of a Vegas show, and the whole production reminded us of so many shows we've seen on cruise ships, only not nearly as good! If we had paid for this, we would have been pissed, but we can't complain about the price. I can complain, though, about having given up the first night of the new season of Dancing with the Stars for a show that's not worth the trip.
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