Yesterday we decided to get out and see more of the Vegas strip. So we started walking south. Lisa wanted to visit Paris and ride the roller coaster at New York, New York, so we did. While in Paris, we gambled a little. After about an hour of playing Blackjack, Lisa was up $25 and I was down $50. So I wasted another $50 playing craps for about 10 minutes. After Paris, we started walking south towards New York, New York.
After seeing “Love” the night before, Lisa wanted to see another more action-packed Cirque du Soleil show, but two of the shows were dark and the other two, “Mystere” and “O” were sold out. I, on the other hand, saw an ad for “FabFour Mania”, a Beatles cover band, in one of the ad magazines we picked up at the airport and that’s what I wanted to do. So Lisa called her friend with the connections to try to get tickets to a Cirque show, but nothing came of it. So we dropped by the Alladin/Planet Hollywood and bought tickets to the FabFour show.
After riding the roller coaster at New York, New York, which by the way was extremely rough but fun, we walked back to the Alladin to catch our show. It was in the V Theater, which is in the Alladin which is under construction and rebranding to Planet Hollywood. The theater was small, maybe 200 seats at most. It was a more intimate club-like venue.
The show started off with a recreation of The Beatles’ first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, complete with an Ed Sullivan impersonator. I was impressed with the band, not only their musical ability and attention to detail, but also the characters. The John Lennon character was good, but the Paul was spot on. Everything from his voice—both singing and speaking—to his mannerisms, facial expressions when singing and body movements were incredible.
The show was about two hours and kind of chronicled The Beatles through their phases. First was the Beatlemania phase with music like “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, “I Saw Her Standing There”, “Yesterday”, “Twist and Shout” and “A Hard Day’s Night.” Then they transitioned to the Sgt. Pepper era and played tunes like “Got To Get You Into My Life”, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, “With a Little Help”, “Sgt Pepper’s Reprise” and “A Day in The Life.” Finally, they closed with White Album/Abbey Road era with tunes like “Imagine”, “Revolution” and “Hey Jude”. It was a good show and well worth the $60/ticket price.
After the show we walked to the Bellagio, caught the fountain show and ate at a Japanese restaurant called Shintaro. It was a teppan-yaki style preparation. I had beef tenderloin and Lisa had chicken. It was very good, but the service was dreadful.
After dinner we came back to our hotel, got some ice cream and called it a night.
