Frank Marino will be introducing a new monologue in the year 2000 along with some new Bob Mackie gowns in "An Evening at La Cage" at the Riviera Hotel & Casino.

He said "After being inducted into the Las Vegas Hall of Fame on November 4th, I'll be back working on my all-new monologue. People return to 'La Cage'time & time again because the material is always differnt. The characters are changed out, too. I'm acquiring a new wardrobe with Bob Mackie gowns."

Marino exclaimed, "I can always change the material. It's the delivery that's so important to the audience. 'La Cage' audiences just want to have fun and they expect risque' stuff. I promise never to use any of Joan Rivers' lines again. I was sued for 5 million and now am building a $5 million Casa de Marino"

The cast includes Carol Collier as Whoopi Goldburg, Jayson Malone as Bette Midler & Judy Garland, Steven Wayne as Cher and Celine Dion, Lane Lassiter as Micheal Jackson, Chris Woods as Diana Ross & Whitney Houston, John Bloss as Reba McIntire and Tim Dunn as Dionne Warwick. Jimmy Emerson does "Madonna's Bigger Sister and Tammy Spraynet."
Marino spoke of the cast of female impersonators extraodinaire saying, "Cher took one of us on tour once. So did Reba McIntire."

Frank Marino said, "I've won 'Best Impersonator' and 'Best Dressed' year after year in the media polls"

"An Evening at La Cage" runs nightly @7:30pm and 9:30pm with an 11:15pm show added on wednesdays only.
Show is dark (closed) Tuesdays.
Tickets are $22.25 plus taxes and include one drink.

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Lee-PA
Moderator, What's New Forum
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Lee, have you ever seen this show? I have seen it twice, and IMO, it's a great show by a very talented group of performers. As for "risque"....well, I guess the subject matter makes that word appropriate, but I think Frank Marino is right when he says it's a fun experience ....my 77 year old mom was ROTFLHAO when we saw it the first time. The second time I saw it, I took one of my training bosses with me, and he turned to me before the show and said something like "ok, this is just a high-end drag show, right?" I asked him to hold his opinion to the end, and he cheerfully admitted afterward that it was great, highly professional entertainment.

Daisy,
Yes I have seen this show twice also. It's funny stuff. For aprox. 1hr. you look at the people on stage and laugh.
Sue owns his book, but for the life of us, we don't know what happened to it. It was probably loaned out to someone and never returned.
Your correct, it todays world, risque', is a bit of a stretch. Unless your a die hard bible thumper.
I've also been to the other female impersonator show that was running for quite awhile, but now seems to be lost for good, Boylesque. I remeber going to that for the first time, to humor the wife. Sue wanted to go, and we where invited guests of Kenny Kerr, through a bartender at the Frontier. What a hoot, here I was thinking this show is going to (pardon the pun) be a drag. But couldn't stop laughing, ended up meeting Kenny after the show. Talk about an odd night. I remember sitting at the Sahara killing cockroaches at the bar with the bottoms of our beer bottles, with some of Kennys friends.

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Lee-PA
Moderator, What's New Forum
lee@talkvegas.com