Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Old girl power

Comedian Rita Rudner stepped demurely on stage at Harrrah's Showroom on Thursday to introduce the opening of the "Hats! The Musical" before a colorfully costumed crowd of Red Hat Society members, who were celebrating the 10th birthday of their group.

And then Rudner asked them to TAKE OFF their towering plumed hats -- so the people sitting behind them in the cabaret-style theater could see the stage.

Designed to share a built-in audience base with "Menopause The Musical" (hitting its second-year mark at the Las Vegas Hilton), "Hats!" is cheery in a cheerleader-y way, a 60-minute infomercial for the fun-loving international society for women over 50.

Featuring a cast of seven, it's an unevenly stitched together (and still somewhat under-rehearsed) patchwork of songs, about a "49.999"-year-old woman as she struggles against embracing her age. It all ends with a house-lights-up kickline and an Inspiring Lesson: "If you settle for what you‚ve got, you deserve what you get." Look for the review in Sunday's Las Vegas Sun.

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