First, if you get a coupon for a show at a Harrahs Vegas property, or use
your Diamond or 7 Stars membership to get 2 free or 1/2 price tickets, you may
find quite a variety of seating. Even if you get a bad seat, it pays to use
the Diamond entrance to the show, show your Diamond or 7* card, and ask if
there are better seats. In some cases it may help, in others, nope.
And even if you get a coupon for a show at Caesars Colleseum, where you
book online, once you go to the box office you can always try for a better
seat by showing your card when you pick up your tickets.
Donny&Marie (Osmund) are now the Flamingo's main headline act. I wasn't
a big fan, until I saw the show. I was impressed by the wide range of
material - A little bit, country, a little bit rock n' roll, and a little bit
Broadway, and 1 opera number (Marie), and a little bit pop, and a little bit of
dancing too! They sing together, then each does a set of numbers separately,
and come together at the end for a great dance-off number.
The show features a good band, excellent dancers, a few clips from their
careers, and a whole lot of energy. Both singers are in excellent voice,
and display a huge amount of talent. Marie recently did Dancing with the
Stars, so incorporates a bit of dancing, but then Danny dances too, and they are
both very good (considering they are really singers, and are in their 50s).
The show also features a lot of costume changes, humor, banter, and is
just plain fun.
I would have loved to be up near the front, but flashing my 7 Star card
did no good on a crowded Saturday night, so we ended up in the last row of
the theater! Fortunately the Flamingo theater isn't huge, so the view was
still fine. There are also big screens for closer views (not actually needed
even from our bad seats).
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George Wallace is the 10pm show in the same theater of the Flamingo. I used
the 2 free tickets from Harrahs deal for 7* members, and happened to get
great seats down front. The show really should be called "George Wallace and
Mosaic" because his opening act of excellent acapella singers Mosaic remained
on stage throughout part of Wallace's entrance, and really were about 1/2 the
show.
The Mosaic group is quite good - using voices only to provide all the
music/percussion/words for their songs. Their set did seem a bit long for an
opening act though, especially when Wallace finally appeared, and joked with them
(they were all his sons) while introducing them in a long introduction. They
continued to harmonize as he joked. Then they did a gospel song, and
Wallace pulled up a couple of women from the audience to join in - and one was
fantastic (I think she was a plant - if not - wow).
Finally Wallace took over the stage alone, and he was very funny. His humor
was understated, but I found it very funny. He also bantered with the
audience.
All in all, quite enjoyable, and I'd like to see the show again just to see
if he really has a lot of other material that he uses on other nights (he
implied that).
Meanwhile, he gave out a lot of promotional gifts to audience members such
as t-shirt, CD, etc. And also $500 in gas card to one person! Apparently he
does that every night!
For best chance to win one of the prizes, sit way up front, left or right of
the stage in the chairs. We were directly in front in the first booth, but
he didn't look our way at all. Try to be someone he banters with! Or just
establish eye contact and maybe he will point you out for no apparent reason
and hand you the $500, as he did when we saw this show.
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I saw the 2 shows as a double-feature in one night and found them quite
enjoyable.
To save money if you have a pay, try the half-price booth at nearby Bill's,
look for coupons, or just go for the cheaper seats.
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