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| - I really wanted to like this. I really, REALLY wanted to like this. I tried so hard. I really like CeeLo's music. "Crazy," "F*** You," "Bright Light Bigger City," I really like them. They're sing-along-worthy.
But when your moniker compares you to the fabulously fabulous showman Liberace, that's big talk, and you had better back it up. "Loberace" doesn't.
First, as noted in my review of the Yelp Event, the doors were supposed to open at 10:30pm for an 11pm showing. This is already late in a local's book, considering we work in the city that everybody plays in. The doors didn't open until around 11ish, and the show didn't start until 11:45pm. Cool for drunk tourists, not for me and Elite Emily, who both had things to do and were in the midst of an awesome food coma.
As I've said before, I like CeeLo Green. But when you see him in person, you're reminded of the fact that he kind of looks like a Goomba, and not the regular Goombas... more like the Goombas from the horrible "Super Mario Bros." movie with Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo. THOSE Goombas. So when the star of your show isn't exactly athletic enough for hot dance moves, you'd better hope your back up dancers are. The problem with the back up dancers in "Loberace" is that most of their moves I would probably also see in an intermediate Zumba class. I was totally uninterested in most of what was going on in the show.
Also, when you compare yourself to Liberace, you'd better put on a hell of a show, and "Loberace" doesn't do it. There are some video screens, a few sparse set pieces, but it just didn't "do the damn thing," as Gato Figueroa would say. I needed more, a lot more from this show, than a raunchy high school play, which is the quality of some numbers. Girls gyrating on a big fake staircase? They're not even dancing at this point, just thrusting.
There were some positives, mainly CeeLo, who does some of his hits as well as some pretty fun covers ("Superfreak" was really well done), and plus, some of the dancers in the show are thick girls. I'm not saying this as a slam; I'm saying this as a compliment, since most Vegas dancers are akin to anorexics. Curvy is sexy, and one dancer in particular had some cushion on her that she moved with the best of them. Get it, girl!
And I'm not going to even try to start on the part that can only be described as "Rainbow Brite on acid."
Overall, these tickets, which start at $100, are not worth your time or money. If you really like CeeLo, like I do, go down the road to Caesars Palace, watch "Absinthe" for $75, and use the $25 you save to buy a CeeLo CD.
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