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1. This show is located in the Planet Hollywood Casino Miracle Mile Shops area. It's more towards the end where the parking lot is!
2. Though there are a variety of show deals, including "free" tickets, there are also some great deals you can get by just going to those last minute ticket booths or looking online.
3. We bought two VIP tickets that cost us around $25 apiece.
4. There is a "pre-show" by Armando Vera, who I think is much better. However, you need to purchase VIP tickets to watch it.
5. The comedy/magic portion of the show are split. There is a small section of magic by Nathan Burton, then a section of comedy by another guy who I can't remember, and then a table-top/card trick magic from Armando Vera, and then back to Nathan Burton to close out the show.
There are two things that I look for when I go out to a show: content and comfort. What I mean by comfort is how the seating is and how drink service is handled.
Anyways, in terms of content, when you first enter into the theater, they force you to take a photo to make it seem like you are indeed part of the show. They use this photo while we are all waiting for others to be seated. Afterward, they lead you to a waiting area downstairs where there is a bar. After waiting for a set period of time, if you are a VIP ticket holder, you head upstairs to watch Armando Vera work his magic.
Armando Vera is a really slick guy. Very funny, and if he was the headliner of this show, I would probably have given him 4 stars. The problem is Nathan Burton is the headliner and isn't a magician, he's more of an illusionist, which is a different matter that I'll get to. Anyways, Armando Vera or (AV with his fingers as he will tell you multiple times) is a magician that deals with card tricks and other various smaller scale tricks. We found him to be very entertaining and pretty hilarious. There were a few tricks that were simple, but one or two that were a little more dazzling.
After the pre-show we headed to our designated area for the tickets. The show starts and Nathan Burton comes out to do a few illusions that seem to the both of us to be pretty simple, but not bad. The illusions were sometimes easy to figure out. After Nathan warmed up the crowd, this hilarious comedian came out. I won't spoil it, but my girlfriend and I were in stitches. That guy gets at least four stars too.
Nathan Burton came out to close the show, and the illusions were not bad. More or less, there was A LOT of talking involved. I guess setting up for it was really difficult or something, but there was a few minutes of downtime. It was easy to figure out some of the "bigger" illusions. Several times, I was like, this has to be a raised platform making xyz appear etc. For a headliner, I feel that the illusions are nothing out of the ordinary. Maybe one or two of them were wow inducing.
Anyways on a note about comfort, I was disappointed in how terrible the "VIP" seats felt. They were incredibly small seats and the guy next to me was over on my side for much of the time. Besides small seating, the drink service was pretty much a disaster. Because of the small seats and short rows, when the cocktail waitress came by to bring drinks, if she wasn't careful she would spill on some people's laps or on people's shirts. My girlfriend had the horrible misfortune of feeling someone's Long Island on the back of her head.
Anyways, not a bad show at all! I would probably not go back, but it's worth it for first timers to see a little of that old Vegas magic.
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