If big, bold experiments in Las Vegas entertainment were unraveling this week, smaller but still-encouraging ones continue.

Mike Weatherford
Watching the rehearsal in front of him, show producer Adam Steck declares, “You gotta have an Aboriginal routine in an Australian show.”
The billboards make them look like magic’s version of “The Avengers.” And they fight their way out of a basement like superheroes, too.
Figuring out how to get the club demographic to buy show tickets is still a bit of a mystery. But one thing isn’t.
There comes a point in every Celine Dion show where the waterworks open and you can’t stop a tear from running down your face.
NeNe Leakes, best known as one of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” makes Cirque history on Friday with a week as the guest host of “Zumanity.”
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