This is a really great write up. And you have to admit, Bette, Cher & Elton are really an amazing line up of talent. Fingers crossed that maybe one day all three will come together and do a few numbers on stage, now that would be “Really Gay!”

Now, MELISSA RUGGIERI wrote:

No doubt Midler’s Borscht Belt loyalists will flock to her new Vegas home, but does she possess as strong an international pull as Dion? And will the adult-contemporary-loving housewives who splurged to hear “My Heart Will Go On” live on the Vegas Strip trek back to the desert for Midler’s snappy verbal jousting and perfectly gaudy spectacle?

Time will answer that one.

Well, personally I think it’s all in the bag for Bette and she’ll have no worries about not having enough “International pull” I have never heard of any show that Bette has put on to be canceled due to lack of interest. Something that a lot of reviewers tend to forget when doing a write up about any Bette show, and I’m not bagging them out here either,is that unlike most performers today, Bette doesn’t really rely on special effects to sell tickets to any of her shows, she is her own special effect, she always has been and always will be, this what sets her apart from the rest.

Yeah, I know she has jumped on the SFX bandwagon on her past few tours, but not to the point that her shows are about the special effects, she has balanced it all out perfectly – hey at least she doesn’t mime or lip sync!

It will be interesting to see how / if the show changes over it’s course and I think that Bette will do that, after all she is almost an institute of musical knowledge, I really can’t see her putting all of that up on the shelf during her run at Caesars.

Big Hugz!

Manny
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