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for starters, i'm not what i would call a "pin up kind of guy" (although i AM aware of it enough to know who alberto vargas was).
i went not knowing who claire sinclair was and didn't have any preconceived notions of what the show might be over-and-above her 40's era billboards dotting the city.
but the show is what everyone says here. singing. extremely good dancing. platinum white hot band.
after seeing what others have said, either ms. sinclair has had a lot of training in the last several weeks, or i caught her on a particularly good night, but i thought she was an extremely good presenter. very charismatic. glowingly beautiful (and very aware of it). well spoken. sharp. well timed.
if you go expecting burlesque, you'll be disappointed. there's no T, debatable amounts of A, and no comedy to speak of.
but what impresses me the most about it all, and what keeps me thinking about it is this ...
everything is laser beam focused on and around the concept of pin-up. this show is, literally, pin-up start-to-finish. everything from the costumes, attitude, style, music and sensibility. whoever put this entire thing together REALLY thought about it. shows -especially vegas shows- are almost NEVER thought about this way. think about it, even your favorite cirque has some bizarre thing just thrown in because they have performers that can do that trick. but this isn't that way at all. it's not so much entertainment -or even a vegas strip act- it's more of a moving, living, breathing montage. it's a piece of performance art. it belongs more in the smith center than it does in the stratosphere. it's an homage that goes SO deep that it actually becomes part of what it's paying reverence to.
but here's what i don't get ... how can a show like this POSSIBLY survive in the 21st century? the musical themes and social references are mostly built around the 40s, 50s and 60s. i'm 52m and the VAST majority of things they're making reference to are WELL ahead of my time ... so how does that play to a 30-something audience -someone born in the 80s- that has the ability to spend money on a vast variety of vegas entertainment. add in the fact that the show presents no sarcasm or irony of any kind, how can "modern" people even relate?
i honestly don't know.
but if you have ANY interest in a cultural concept writ large, or if you want to see what a truly tightly scripted idea looks when it's given a modern spin and put on the stage, you NEED to see this show.
and soon. i don't think it can last.
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