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Shag with a Twist DVD
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- Running time is 60 minutes
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Shag with a twist DVD
- Shows Sunday and Monday at 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at Midnight, dark Friday and Saturday.
Harmon Theatre inside Krave Nightclub on Harmon, just east of the Strip
Tickets: $45, with a $55 VIP seating
Show HOTLINE: (888) 515-SHAG (7424)
Email: info@jetsetterproductions.com
Web site: www.shagwithatwist.com
Until the end of September, "Shag With A Twist" offers an open bar with the purchase of any $55 VIP ticket.
- "The show that serves up an evocative cocktail of music, color and dance, now serves up unlimited cocktails and a shagedelic party atmosphere as the Las Vegas Strip's only show with an open bar. While casino showrooms may relish their $9 cocktails, the fiercely independent production of "Shag With A Twist" harkens back to the carefree spirit of a retro era of big hair, Tupperware parties and ubiquitous birdbath drinks. A good party host believes that every cocktail should be bottomless.:
To mark their two-year anniversary, KRAVE will host
a weekend celebration of entertainment and activities on
Friday, September 29th and Saturday, September 30th.
- SHAG WITH A TWIST is currently playing off-strip on Harmon, at the edge of the Aladdin's Desert Passage shopping complex. In fact, access is on Harmon, and parking is a bit tricky, if you don't use their valet. You could park across the street in the Harley-Davidson Restaurant parking areas, or, for a real navigational challenge, walk through the Desert Passage from the Aladdin and find the hallway out to Harmon. Once out on the sidewalk in front of Krave, you will encounter helpful guides. The theatre, the newly christened Harmon Theatre, is just inside to the left. It is a small, intimate lounge reminiscent of the east coast clubs, say in the Jersey of yester-year. The stage is small, seating at tables, on kitschy booths or at high tables, the service excellent, the lighting bright, the music era-specific, the dancers talented, and the costumes vivid polyesters, topped off with brilliantly hued foam 'wigs.' Shag is, in this case, a popular bit of British slang, and is not the dance known as the Carolina Shag of the east coast swing era.
- The context and content of this creation comes to life at the fantasy intersection of Doris Day and Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra and Frankie Avalon, between 1957 and 1963. In that time frame, most everyone was transitioning from swing rock and roll dancing to Chubby Checker's Twist, the Swim, the Pony, the Monkey, the Mashed Potato (Monster Mash), the Watusi and, of course, the Jerk. Music was dissonant, electric and louder, widely admired alcoholic consumption was at its zenith and technology dominated lifestyles, from the ultra-mechanized bachelor pad to Tupperware for the ladies' kitchens. Decor was space age modernistic. Cocktail party ambiance ruled—Mary Quant (designer of the geometric, colorful mini-skirt smocks) called her boutique a "kind of permanently running cocktail party."
- Shag with a Twist is a musical dance production, in high camp, with lively performers, martini bar, Tiki-chic sets and a story about a home cocktail party. The dancing is all era-specific, but the young women who play Shimmy and Shake, Siamese twins joined at their fabulous hair, upstage everyone else…their choreographed movements are unique and well-executed. Ostensibly, to host a Tupperware demonstration, Eldon and Othal's cocktail party takes a dark turn as the evening progresses—it becomes a baffling crime scene. One of Eldon's guests has murdered another guest, a voluptuous vamp named Slinky, dressed in a pink lamé gown, with a hairdo big enough to house a parakeet. For those who haven't, for decades, given a thought to baby-doll nighties, pet monkeys or shag carpet, this show offers nostalgia or repugnance, depending on your personal take on those times.
- The music, art and styles reflected innovative technologies, increasing permissiveness and coalescing audio-visual media styles. Epitomized by the Rat Pack, Television's "Man From Uncle" and the legendary "James Bond," the romanticized bachelor-at-large, complete with bevies of beautiful, clinging babes clustered about, was a goal for any male of this Golden Era. Apparently, females desired to be one of those clingy kittens, sexy, and interested in little else but men and modern things like Tupperware. The female head helmet—what became known as 'big hair'—'ratted' high and held rigidly in place with another modern invention, hairspray, was offset by Brylcreem-smooth hair on men.
- For the purposes of this musical mystery, everyone of that day was imbued with or hoped to pass off the impression of the new Mondo-lounge cool. The men, more slavish to the Rat Pack suits were beginning to try out the Frankie Avalon and Fabian styles. Women's fashions were evolving from revealing beatnik styles to revealing synthetics, ultra-bright primary color smocks and tights, metallic lamé and go-go boots, fishnet stockings, and metal spangles, reflecting new fabrics and technology. Mini-skirts had arrived. The whole new 'look' represented a departure from the conservative post WWII values, and definitely was for those 'into' a new lifestyle for 'hep' cats. Andy Warhol personified the art-culture rebellion from abstract to pop-art. This era, distinctive in so many ways, fascinates even today.
- Shag with a Twist had its beginnings in the Los Angeles Art Community, where it was originally brought to the stage there in March 2005. Choreographer, Cynthia (Cindy) Bradley, who originally approached Shag, envisioned the stage show as an homage to, and loosely based on, the paintings of an artist popular today in Los Angeles, Josh "Shag" Agle, who has created a niche for himself as one proud to be stuck in the early '60s lifestyle, values and styles—part of the Low Brow art movement. She said, "Our goal was to bring his artwork to life and to capture, in a live performance, that essence of fun and kitsch that resonates in his paintings." "Shag," characterized his art, "My paintings are based on stylized commercial advertising…back then [it] had a sort of cubist-cartoonish look…I almost always try to paint a story…something that is happening, often sinister, and usually a bit mysterious."
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