Music to our ears! Adele announced her second televised concert special two months after having to delay her Las Vegas residency.
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The Amazing Johnathan, the veteran magician and comic who headlined in Las Vegas for more than a decade and appeared often on television including stand-up specials and David Letterman’s shows, died late Tuesday at his home in Las Vegas. He was 63 and had been struggling with health problems including cardiomyopathy for several years.
His wife, sideshow stunt artist Anastasia Synn, confirmed the news to the Las Vegas Journal-Review today. “I’m losing my beautiful, brilliant husband,” she’d said Tuesday on social media.
Born John Edward Szeles on September 9, 1958, in Detroit, he began doing street comedy in San Francisco as in the early 1980s and starting landing guest spots on TV including Thicke of the Night, Up All Night and Late Night with David Letterman. He would go on to appear many times on Letterman’s show on NBC and later CBS.
As stand-up comedy boomed in the late ’80s and early 1990s, the Amazing Johnathan — usually with his trademark headband — continued to work in clubs and TV. He multiple episodes of A&E’s An Evening at the Improv and ultimately making a record two dozen appearances on Fox’s Comic Strip Live, with audiences lapping up his unique style that combined sometimes-gory imagery with audience interaction and shtick.
By 2001, he was headlining in Sin City — a gig that would last 13 years at various venues before he returned to the club circuit. All the while, he continued to book TV gigs including Comedy Central stand-up specials, the CW’s Masters of Illusion, The Weird Al Show and with his pal Chris Angel in Mindfreak.
The magician-comic appeared in 2005’s star-studded dirty-joke documentary The Aristocrats, alongside fellow comics including Bob Saget and Gilbert Gottfried and many others, and in 2019
Music to our ears! Adele announced her second televised concert special two months after having to delay her Las Vegas residency.
Friends star Courteney Cox has detailed a cast trip to Las Vegas organised by the show’s director James “Jim” Burrows.In conversation with Today’s Willie Geist for a Sunday Sitdown interview (per the New York Post), the actor described the holiday which took place just before the show aired in 1994.“He gave us all $500 (£380). And he said, ‘I want you to take care, like, really take notice of this moment because it will be the last time that all six of you together can walk through a casino,’” she said.
Britney Spears returned to Las Vegas for the first time since ending her long-running residency and getting out of her conservatorship. The 40-year-old pop star was in Sin City over the weekend to celebrate her fiancé, Sam Asghari's, 28th birthday.While there, Asghari took in the UFC 272 fight and the soon-to-be married couple enjoyed private dinners and some time at the spa.Ariadna Jacob, founder of Outliers Talent, set up the couple trip to Las Vegas, and tells ET that she «worked with several clients to curate what would be an unbelievable experience» for Spears and Asghari, starting with providing the couple with jet transportation.«Sam and Britney had a nice, luxurious, and romantic weekend together while celebrating Sam's birthday,» a source tells ET.
Britney Spears returned to Las Vegas for the first time since ending her long-running residency. Britney hit Sin City over the weekend to celebrate her fiancé, Sam Asghari's, birthday.
Britney Spears ended her Las Vegas residency after a highly-successful four-year run. Over the weekend, the pop star returned to Vegas for the first time since that final show, but this time she wasn't under her father's thumb.On March 5, Britney and her fiance Sam Asghari headed to Sin City to celebrate his 28th birthday."There was no drama," a source told Page Six. "She got picked up in a Rolls Royce, [was driven] to the hotel and had a great time."After checking into the Presidential Suite at the Crockfords tower of the newly-opened Resorts World, Sam and Britney reportedly had a couple's massage.
Luke Bryan is in Las Vegas for the 57th Academy of Country Music Awards, and having to make the trip out to Sin City was the perfect excuse to check out Katy Perry's residency show.Bryan spoke with ET's Cassie DiLaura over the weekend after rehearsals for his performance at this year's star-studded celebration of country music, and the singer opened up about seeing his friend and fellow judge bringing down the house in her residency show at The Theatre at Resorts World Resort and Casino.«I came in a day early to just be able to [see her show], because it's gonna be really tough for our schedules to intersect,» Bryan shared. «So, I mainly did that just to put a lot of pressure on Katy so she could come see my show.»Bryan recently wrapped up his own residency engagement at Resorts World Las Vegas — and is preparing for a second round in the near future — and the crooner said he was really excited about how it turned out.«It was great! I couldn't be happier with how it all went. I mean, the show felt like it was one of the best shows I've been able to put on and perform,» Bryan shared. «And I've also learned that I can live one month in Vegas without getting sent to the grave.»«As far as round two, I always want to build on the Vegas show.
Donny Osmond emphasized that the pressure to perform in Las Vegas is "enormous" in an interview with Fox News Digital as he begins his residency. Osmond is returning to Vegas two years after the coronavirus put live music on hold.The singer called the pause a "blessing in disguise" because it allowed him time to complete a new album and set up for a Las Vegas residency. Osmond spoke about Adele's decision to cancel her Vegas residency.
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Matthew Rondeau is seemingly “feeling good” amid his recent arrest. Days after the actor was released from police custody and an emergency protective order was issued to keep him away from Shanna Moakler, he jetted off to Las Vegas with friends.
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Chris Willman Music WriterIf you’re easily triggered by 30- to 40-foot props, dance routines with dozens of performers, childish wonder, juvenile humor, drug-trip simulations or just color, by all means avoid “Katy Perry: Play.” “You can come totally sober and still feel high,” Perry says of her phantasmagorical Resorts World Las Vegas residency, already famous for its talking face masks and poo, and dancing mushrooms, toothbrushes and tube socks.Between the spectacle, glamour, literal bathroom humor and (not incidentally) breezy run-through of some of the indelible pop songs of the last 20 years, “Play” is a captivating, grin-inducing show that you may well wish you could mainline, repeatedly, or at least have captured in shroom form that could be put on sale in the gift shop. But, alas, its oversize pop-art pleasures can only be found in one location, so what happens in Vegas may demand a return trip to Vegas as the production returns to Resorts World March 2-19, May 27-29, June 3-11, July 29-30, Aug.