Monday By the Numbers focuses principally on the Spiegelworld Tent at Caesars Palace, where Melody Sweets of “Absinthe” performed her latest headlining show, “Melody Sweets’ Big Top Circus & Burlesque!”
This was the fourth such offshoot production piloted by Sweets, and they have become a real happening.
The midnight start and nitty-gritty vibe of the “Absinthe” tent helps set the vibe, and the recruiting of great artists, acrobats and cracking band make the $20 ticket a laughable bargain.
Let’s run with the stats:
32: Performers (six strolling artists outside the tent, seven band member, and 19 artists and acrobats in the featured acts).
0: Full rehearsals before the show opened just after midnight Friday.
1: Inflatable dolls used in the human-balancing act performed by Jimmy Slonina.
1: Time I have seen musicians David Perrico, Mike “Beans” Benigno, Eric Plante and Stephen Lee dressed as clowns.
Maybe a dozen: Times I have seen rock ’n’ roll tuba/bassist Ginger Bruner dressed as a clown.
4: Glow-in-the-dark, pink elephant thongs used in the show.
30: Balloons popped from the costume of the relentlessly entertaining Dirty Martini during her act.
1: Pasties that fell free during the show (during the performance by Luna Storme).
3 hours, 15 minutes: Hours it took for Skin City Body Painting to paint the quartet of “lions” in the show.
4: Salto gymnastic flips performed by aerialist act Duo Fevrier.
435: Fans in attendance.
8 1/2: Episodes of “Game of Thrones” reportedly viewed by high-wire artist Lijana Wallenda as she glued rhinestones to her costume.
6: Standing ovations during the show.
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