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Date Seen: 06/06 - Undecided
We didn't love this show. While the cars were impressive and the women were beautiful, somehow, it just didn't have the energy and dancing talent we expected to see. I'm glad we went for the experience, but wouldn't go back.
<GNilsen49 -at- hotmail.com> - Manalpan NJ USA - Added 07/02/06 - [24.187.49***] 6811
Date Seen: 05/06 - Good Show
I just saw the show Headlights and Tailpipes and I must say to anyone reading this who is a fan of Vegas shows: STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND GO TO SEE THIS SHOW!!! I have seen practically every major show in Vegas over the past 25 years, and this is one for the record books. If I had to describe this spectacle in one word, that word would be-- SUBLIME!
Okay, let me start off by making a little confession. I have always loved the Las Vegas showgirl revue. But in recent years, the shows all seem to be similar and germane, even recycling routines, dances, and bits. Headlights and Tailpipes stands out. This show definitely has a theme and sticks with it. Personally I think it is a little bizarre to build a show around cars and girls, but hey, you gotta have a gimmick, right? I don’t know if most people are going to like this show, but the spectacle must be seen to believed. (Kind of like staring at a car wreck!!!) I am not criticizing the performers in the show. I thought that the cast of twenty four or so performers (that’s right TWO DOZEN performers!!!) were really beautiful, talented and very energetic. It’s just that the theme of cars was weird.
The show starts out with a montage of classic cars and girls wearing outfits that matched the cars. I have never been to a car show, but this must have been like a “best of” collection from the last four decades of Las Vegas auto shows. (I liked the Mercedes Benz hat the best, and the Bentley bustier was memorable.) From there the show features a dance duet with a poor innocent motorist being pulled over by the local fuzz. This was my favorite past of the show because not only was the girl really beautiful, but it featured that classic rain effect that the Stardust theater was known for. Also memorable was the car wash scene because the girls were also really pretty, wearing cute bikinis, then less, AND washing a car. (Of course this featured the song Car Wash with those memorable lyrics “You might not never get rich, but then again its better than digging a ditch,” and “ Fill up and you don’t have to pay-ee.”) A segment took place around a large and unusual set that looked like the onramp of a freeway--how romantic. This was the hip-hop segment of the show replete with skilful break dancers and the Academy Award winning song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" (Academy Award winning? Are you kidding me?). There was a Mad Max sequence that featured post apocalyptic costumes and talented BMX bikers, but alas, no 14-foot steel cage Thunderdome! This did feature, briefly, the great song “Speak About Destruction” by Time Zone, which you never hear these days.
Then there were variety performers. Both a female and a male comedian did separate bits during the show, then confessed to being married and did a skit together. If I recall correctly, they even made a reference to Steve and Eydie which must have gone over the heads of 99% of the audience. There was a busty female singer who was rejected as a Playboy centerfold and sang a song disparaging Hugh Hefner, asking who must she blow to get a job. Seriously. Playboy playmate Barbara Moore showed her talent at one point— by playing a game of car trivia with the audience. (Her talent is asking questions about cars? Isn’t that testing the boundaries of qualifying for a skill? Couldn’t she have done a magic trick or hula hoop routine? Couldn’t we have those Gaucho guys or the Living Statues instead?)
During the whole show I kept wondering if it was safe that I was in an enclosed space breathing in all of the fumes from the cars. I also became paranoid that the brakes would fail and one of the cars would careen off the stage taking out the first few rows. I was slightly disappointed that some cars were absent. I was hoping to see the Batmobile, the Genral Lee, Homer’s car of the future, or B.A. Barrackas’ van from the A-Team.
In the late 1980s there was a production on Broadway called Carrie. It set the standard for bizarre ideas in theater. Unfortunately, but predictably, it flopped. It featured, among other things, a shower scene with the girls singing to Carrie, “Plug it up.” Another scene, called “The Pig Farm,” had guys chanting “kill the pigs” while they did just that. Why do I mention Carrie? Well, Headlights and Tailpipes just might be the Carrie of Las Vegas shows. I HIGHLY recommend everyone see this before it closes. You will not be disappointed.
<mrtheaterskin -at- yahoo.com> - Las Vegas NV USA - Added 05/13/06 - [71.105.73.***] 6692
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