MGM Grand’s new headliner will have you in a trance

It’s a comedy show for grown-ups, having been honed for six years in South Carolina.

“Steve Falcon’s Comedy Hypnosis Hour” is headed for the Strip. The show opens June 18 at MGM Grand’s Underground Theater, where Tape Face performs.

Falcon plays 9:30 p.m. daily, except Wednesdays at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $49, not including fees, at mgmresorts.com.

John Bentham’s Ivory Star Productions produces Falcon’s show, and is also a partner in Tape Face’s residency.

A specialist in fast, interactive comedy, Falcon has headlined at Wonders Theatre at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach for a half-dozen years.

“We built something incredible … And now I get to bring that energy back home to Las Vegas,” says Falcon, who has performed at 1923 Prohibition Bar at The Venetian’s Grand Canal Shoppes, and as a busy corporate act. “This show is fast, unpredictable, interactive, and absolutely built for a Vegas audience.”

Falcon says he’ll preside over “controlled chaos in the best possible way.”

The show will attempt to lure bachelor and bachelorette parties, birthdays, convention groups, date nights and adults looking for a bawdy night of hypnotic hi-jinks.

Falcon has put more than 10,000 volunteers under his spell, performing more than 1,000 shows in Myrtle Beach. His show joins such long-running hypnotic headliners as Marc Savard at Nathan Burton Theater on the Strip, and Kevin Lepine at Four Queens’ Canyon Club on Fremont Street.

The Underground Theater was originally Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club, before the comic/venue operator moved upstairs to the promenade leading to the Grand Garden Arena (and as he says, “Across from the food court!”).

The room seats about 200, a cozy venue in a huge resort with a big brand.

“MGM Grand has such an iconic entertainment legacy, and the Underground Theater has the perfect vibe for this show,” the headliner says. “Intimate, energetic, and a little rebellious. I plan on pushing that energy to the limit every night.”

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The legacy of Buddy Rich lives on. The drumming legend’s vocalist daughter, Cathy Rich, brings the 16-piece Buddy Rich Big Band, with Emmy-winning drummer Gregg Potter, to Myron’s at The Smith Center at 7 p.m. Saturday. This crew can swing. Tickets start at $34; go to thesmithcenter.com for intel.

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