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| - My review, which will unfortunately probably never be seen by anyone thinking about whether or not they should see Absinthe, is more about the non-show aspects but also some tips for attending. The show is incredibly funny, as nearly every other review states, provided you have absolutely no issue with vulgar humor and stereotyping every race and religion that might have a representative in the first few rows or at a VIP table, because you're going to hear some things that may make your old Catholic school teacher cry.
Anyway, here's my tips:
1) Bring your own booze in little airline bottles and just buy a mixer. The drinks at both the Caesars pavilion outside near the bridge across to Flamingo/Cromwell, and inside the show tent, are incredibly over priced (and weak if we're talking liquor). I got a $14 long island that tasted like lemon soda, beers are $8+.
2) If you're black, Indian (American or otherwise), asian, large in size, dressed 'nerdy' or 'slutty', wearing a head scarf or anything that may suggest you're muslim or hindu, in a couple where one of you is obviously much older or younger than the other, all of the above, and seated in the first few rows, especially the VIP tables along what would be the left side of the seating chart, you should be prepared to be called out in some way or even asked to come up on stage. I've seen the show several times and that is what happens. Most recent visit a white nerdy guy (emcee's description) and a black guy, whom the emcee suggested probably has an anaconda in his pants, were asked up on stage to give an asian female audience member a lap dance, only to have them both fail at it and be one upped by a Hindu gentleman, that was incorrectly called muslim, who got called up after their failures lol. If that sounds like something that would really ruin your day, get seats that are further back, and if that line of humor is out of bounds for you, I'd recommend not attending this show.
3) The seats are folding style like you'd find at a low budget outside wedding. They do have something that passes as a cushion, but don't expect to be too comfortable. The show is roughly 90 minutes so it's not too bad, but if you're big, you're gonna intrude into your neighbor, whom you may or may not know.
4) If you were going to see any of the Cirque shows and Absinthe, but have never seen either, see the Cirque show first. There are very funny parts of Absinthe that having a Cirque frame of reference will enhance.
5) Absinthe is off on Mondays and Tuesdays.
6) How to purchase tickets. First option, buy online, pick the day you want, and get screwed by TicketMaster with a $20 'service fee', and to add insult to injury, a $2.50 fee to have the privilege of printing your tickets at home. If you don't want to waste that $22.50 and are flexible in dates, then....
Option two, buy at the box office, it opens at noon. Saves you the extra fees and pick your seats in person.
Option three, if it's not a Saturday, sometimes Fridays, or a special event week in Vegas, then you can visit a Tix4Tonight booth at 10am to buy same day tickets and save about $10-$20/ea. Since the show usually sells out on its own on Saturdays, I don't recommend trying that for Saturday showings if you really want to see it that day. The catch for this savings? You still have to go to the box office to turn your voucher into tickets, so you're making two stops instead of one.
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