The Weeknd performs during the first day of the Life is Beautiful music festival in downtown Las Vegas, Friday, Sept. 21, 2018.
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Pop phenomenon The Weeknd will return to Las Vegas during his 104-date global After Hours world tour, scheduling a stop at T-Mobile Arena for April 23, 2022. Tickets go on sale Monday, February 8. This year’s Super Bowl halftime show star has a solid history of Vegas performances including a headlining spot at the Life Is Beautiful festival in 2018, a previous T-Mobile tour stop in 2017, a New Year’s Eve concert at the Cosmopolitan in 2016 and a series of club concerts at Drai’s as he was evolving from an underground R&B act to a major mainstream artist. The Weeknd also is releasing “The Highlights” today, something of a greatest hits album, while last year’s “After Hours” is still dominating the charts.
Expect to see some additional, largely unannounced live music and entertainment options pop up in Strip casinos throughout Super Bowl weekend. In addition to the Original Chaos gigs at Harrah’s Carnaval Court which I reported on in this week’s Sun on the Strip podcast, another example is Nieve Malandra singing on the casino floor at Park MGM tonight at 8 p.m.
Elsewhere this weekend: Catch Colte Julian (Jerry Lee Lewis in “The Million Dollar Quartet”) at the Vegas Room Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. plus Patrick Hogan (from Mayfair Supper Club) for Sunday brunch at 1 p.m.; “The Rat Pack is Back” returns to the Florentine Ballroom at the Tuscany with recurring 7:30 p.m. shows set for Friday and Saturday; And singer Jackie Wiatrowski is in the Tuscany’s Piazza Lounge Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
"Marriage Can Be Murder" is back in action for Valentine's Day weekend.
Long-running murder-mystery dinner show “Marriage Can Be Murder” will take over Diversion Amusements, an event space near Allegiant Stadium, for a special engagement February 12-14. Seating is limited and tickets for tables of two or four are available at marriagecanbemurder.com. The menu offers three meal options and the show schedule is set for 7:30 p.m. February 12 and 13 with two shows on February 14 at noon and 8:30 p.m.
Admit VIP Entertainment has launched yet another show at the Alexis Park Resort, a family-friendly afternoon production called “The Big Little Variety Show” featuring a rotating cast of comedians, magicians, musicians, jugglers, stunt people and other circus-style acts. It runs at 4:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday in the Athena Showroom, which is also the current home of “Motown Extreme,” Aussie Heat’s “Rock Candy” and “BurlesQ.” The company is also producing “Amazing Magic with Tommy Wind,” “Alain Nu: The Man Who Knows,” Jokesters Comedy Club and “Late Night Magic” at the resort’s Apollo Showroom and tickets for all of these shows are available at ticketkite.com.
Back on the Strip at the upstart Mosaic theater, the Billy Joel and Elton John tribute show “Piano Man” has ended its engagement, leaving the current entertainment roster standing with “Queens of Rock” and “Aussie Heat.” But the venue’s operator Dean Coleman recently showcased his long-gestating Michael Jackson tribute spectacular “MJ The Evolution” for a socially distanced audience of local first responders and plans to premiere the show at Mosaic on March 4.
