Items shown from the Penny Pibbets gift bag given to those who donated to her Kickstarter campaign to fund “The Penny Pibbets Show” at Art Square Theater in December in downtown Las Vegas.
Published Monday, Oct. 26, 2015 | 1:34 p.m.
Updated Monday, Oct. 26, 2015 | 3:37 p.m.
This week’s Monday By the Numbers details a gift sent by Penny Pibbets of “Absinthe” fame. She has reunited with The Gazillionaire in an original fashion over the past week to sub (or swing, if you are well-versed in entertainment terms) in the show over the past week at Caesars Palace.
Proudly packing her puppets, Pibbets and Gaz are together again in a show slotted in Tuesday night, typically an off night for “Absinthe.”
For the last several months, Pibbets has been sending packages of odd items to those who donated to her Kickstarter campaign to fund “The Penny Pibbets Show,” which she performed a half-dozen times last December and January at Art Square Theater.
She raised $23,000 (with an original goal of $19,990) to finance “The Penny Pibbets Show.” She has since toured with “Absinthe” in Australia and performed when her cousin Joy Jenkins, her replacement in the show, is out.
The stats on the merch inside the Penny Pibbets Grab Bag:
28: Plastic grapes.
1: Plastic unicorn.
1: Plastic Brontosaurus.
1: Penny Pibbets self portrait, as drawn by Penny Pibbets.
1: Trader Joe’s organic Apple Blueberry fruit wrap.
1: Copy of “Gazillionaire’s Late Nite Lounge” CD (music by Penny & Fish Circus and featuring the single “What Would You Do For a Dollar?”).
1: “Miami Vice” soundtrack cassette tape.
1985: Year the “Miami Vice” soundtrack cassette tape was issued.
100: Decorative notebook stickers of racecars, motorcycles H3s, 18-wheelers, road signs and such driving terms as “Vroom!”
1: Book titled, “Small Busted Women Have Big Hearts” (Herbert I. Kavet, Ivory Tower Publishing Co.).
1983: Year “Small Busted Woman Have Big Hearts” was issued.
1: Official Penny Pibbets “Get Over Yourself” T-shirt (color of purple).
2: Fingers held up by Pibbets’ caricature on that shirt (in the form of a peace sign).
5: Packets of Chimes “Original” ginger chews.
4: Plastic daffodils.
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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