Top Vegas Shows - Donny and Marie at The Flamingo
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11 April 2010
Las Vegas travelers usually have a basic idea of what to expect in the true city that never sleeps. With plenty of casinos, all-night buffets, city-wide mafia tours and enough disrobed women to start a nudist colony, one may think that former child stars and clean-cut Mormons Donny and Marie would stand out in Vegas like a sore thumb.
However, the brother-sister duo has been headlining at the Flamingo for a few years now, and their act continues to grow in popularity. I guess, in Vegas, nothing’s shocking anymore.
Donny and Marie have been famous for half a century. Marie, the younger of the siblings, began singing with her famous family of entertainers at only three years of age. Donny, crooner extraordinaire with his hit Puppy Love, was a star on The Andy Williams show at the tender age of five. Over the years, the duo has made a comfortable living entertaining.
Like most lifelong stars, Donny and Marie have a healthy fan-base that never misses an opportunity to catch them perform old hits and sketches. Many fans of the duo’s bubblegum style attend the Flamingo show in hopes of reliving the magic from a bygone era. However, Donny and Marie’s show is a bit different than what most are expecting.
For starters, the show is rather “adult.” And that’s not to say that the uber-religious pair has started cursing or bearing it all on stage. There’s none of that going on. It simply means they’ve skipped over the otherwise cheesy childhood antics and deliver real music performances while on stage.
Even though the Donny and Marie act has always been somewhat slapstick, their respective singing talents have never been in question. After about fifteen minutes of lighthearted comedy together, the duo splits up and each member takes about a twenty-five minute set to perform old classics and even some new recordings.
Throughout much of the show, fans see a completely different act than what they thought they were arriving for. There are no cue card acts like the Osmond’s of old, and the teen angst that made Donny famous is nowhere to be found. But after the siblings’ solo sets, they rejoin on the stage and bring it home with a little together time.
After the duo returns to the stage, they launch into a huge production of Rock This Town. There’s also a hint of a striptease coming from Marie, but, of course, she’s “rescued” in the nick of time by some costume-wearing dancers.
One of the highlights for fans seeking the “old” Donny and Marie style is the tail end of the show. Capitalizing on her Dancing With the Stars appearance, Marie starts to dance, and she’s joined by Donny in what becomes a brother-vs-sister survival-of-the-fittest dance competition.
All in all, the show seems to be decent, and for Las Vegas in general, it’s nice to have something that the entire family can enjoy.
However, the brother-sister duo has been headlining at the Flamingo for a few years now, and their act continues to grow in popularity. I guess, in Vegas, nothing’s shocking anymore.
Donny and Marie have been famous for half a century. Marie, the younger of the siblings, began singing with her famous family of entertainers at only three years of age. Donny, crooner extraordinaire with his hit Puppy Love, was a star on The Andy Williams show at the tender age of five. Over the years, the duo has made a comfortable living entertaining.
Like most lifelong stars, Donny and Marie have a healthy fan-base that never misses an opportunity to catch them perform old hits and sketches. Many fans of the duo’s bubblegum style attend the Flamingo show in hopes of reliving the magic from a bygone era. However, Donny and Marie’s show is a bit different than what most are expecting.
For starters, the show is rather “adult.” And that’s not to say that the uber-religious pair has started cursing or bearing it all on stage. There’s none of that going on. It simply means they’ve skipped over the otherwise cheesy childhood antics and deliver real music performances while on stage.
Even though the Donny and Marie act has always been somewhat slapstick, their respective singing talents have never been in question. After about fifteen minutes of lighthearted comedy together, the duo splits up and each member takes about a twenty-five minute set to perform old classics and even some new recordings.
Throughout much of the show, fans see a completely different act than what they thought they were arriving for. There are no cue card acts like the Osmond’s of old, and the teen angst that made Donny famous is nowhere to be found. But after the siblings’ solo sets, they rejoin on the stage and bring it home with a little together time.
After the duo returns to the stage, they launch into a huge production of Rock This Town. There’s also a hint of a striptease coming from Marie, but, of course, she’s “rescued” in the nick of time by some costume-wearing dancers.
One of the highlights for fans seeking the “old” Donny and Marie style is the tail end of the show. Capitalizing on her Dancing With the Stars appearance, Marie starts to dance, and she’s joined by Donny in what becomes a brother-vs-sister survival-of-the-fittest dance competition.
All in all, the show seems to be decent, and for Las Vegas in general, it’s nice to have something that the entire family can enjoy.
Tags: donny osmond, marie osmond, andy williams, the osmonds, puppy love, rock this town, dancing with the stars,
Posted In: Las Vegas, Las Vegas Shows,
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