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Cirque du Soleil’s “One Night for One Drop” rehearsal with director Mukhtar O.S. Mukhtar and twin U.K. brothers Kevin and Andrew Atherton, of “Zarkana” at Aria, on Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, at the Mirage.
Published Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 | 3:31 p.m.
Updated Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 | 8:40 p.m.
This week, Monday By the Numbers charts the costumes in “Zarkana” at Aria, the stage attire conceived by Slovenian fashion designer Alan Hranitelj.
Elsewhere, we statistically figure in Rod Stewart and the 2015 Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame gala:
250: Costumes used in “Zarkana,” produced at Cirque du Soleil’s headquarters in Montreal.
26: Loads of laundry washed each day in the show.
20: Products used in the show’s makeup designs.
30: Pairs of false eyelashes used each month.
58: Pockets on the coat of the Apprentice character.
90: Seconds the Apprentice character appears onstage.
10: Hairpieces worn in the show.
40-50: Hours required to build a single “Zarkana” wig.
35: Wigs worn in the show.
7: Fans wearing spiked-blond Stewart wigs I spotted at Caesars Palace’s food court before a Stewart show July 31.
5: Number of years Stewart will have headlined at the Colosseum in Caesars when he begins his set of dates in 2016.
400,000: Fans who have seen Stewart perform at the Colosseum since he opened in 2011.
200 million: Approximate number of albums sold worldwide by Stewart in his career.
2: Inductions for Stewart into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a soloist and also a member of The Faces.
2: Members of the Mayweather family (Floyd Jr. and Roger) honored at Saturday night’s Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame gala at Caesars.
1,200: Attendance at the event, which was sold out.
48: Age of Hall of Fame inductee Lennox Lewis in 2013, when a pair of Russian promoters offered him $50 million to face either heavyweight champ Vladimir Klitchko or his brother, Vitali (Lewis declined).
$100 million: The amount Lewis said would be required for him to make such a comeback (which never happened).
30: Length, in minutes, of a 10-round boxing match.
26: Length, in minutes, of Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s acceptance speech at Saturday’s NVBHOF gala.
43: Length, in seconds, of Sugary Ray Leonard’s speech welcoming Mayweather Jr. to the stage.
Transport yourself to the opulent and excessive Roman Empire at Caesars Palace. But the ever-changing Caesars Palace is far from ancient. The hotel and casino is constantly raising the bar for what visitors can expect in a Vegas resort experience.
Caesars Palace features 3,348 rooms and suites in five towers, including the new luxury boutique Nobu Hotel and Restaurant, which opened Feb. 4, 2013, in the totally remodeled Centurian Tower. Caesars features 129,000 square feet of gaming space, including the Strip’s largest poker room and a 250-seat sports book. Other amenities include about two dozen restaurants, a four-level shopping mall, four pools, a spa, Pure and Poetry nightclubs and Pussycat Dolls.
Dining options include restaurants from world-renown chefs Guy Savoy, Wolfgang Puck, Bobby Flay, Gordon Ramsay and, on Feb. 4, 2013, Nobu Matsuhisa.
You never know what characters you’ll run into at Caesars with regular performers like Jerry Seinfeld, Bette Midler, Elton John and maybe even the emperor himself.
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