Clint Holmes might want to pull a cot into Cabaret Jazz for his opening weekend at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts music club.
The Smith Center has added a third show to Holmes’ original opening set of performances at Cabaret Jazz, which opens with an 8:30 p.m. show April 6. That show is sold out. A few tickets remain for the 8:30 p.m. performance April 7, and after charting the healthy ticket sales for the original two dates, Smith Center officials have added a new show for that first Saturday, a 10:30 p.m. performance Holmes hopes will draw industry types to the 258-seat Cabaret Jazz venue.
Tickets also have been moving swiftly at Reynolds Hall for the Canadian Tenors, who have sold out their debut performance at Smith Center set for Saturday night. Tickets remain for tonight’s Michael Feinstein performance titled “The Sinatra Project,” also at Reynolds Hall.
Tickets for Holmes’ show are $38 to $51; go to the Smith Center website or call 702-749-2000 for information.
• Cork Proctor is 80 years old and working for the door at Railroad Pass.
That is both fact and how Proctor responds to the question, “How are you doing?”
Proctor performs a 7:30 show Saturday at the hotel-casino on U.S. 95, between Las Vegas and Laughlin. The resort dates to 1931, making it about as old as Proctor. So it's a good fit. His show Saturday is not exactly a standup act, but rather a series of tales from his days living and working in Las Vegas.
Proctor tells one yarn about how legendary adult dancer Marilyn Chambers once showed an audience at the old Jolly Trolley nightclub (which stood where Bonanza Gifts now does business on Sahara Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard) a diamond ring tucked into a body part typically concealed by clothing.
“It’s been so good to me,” Chambers told the audience, “that I wanted to buy it a gift.”
“I can verify all of this,” Proctor says. “I was there when it happened.”
They do not build them like Cork Proctor anymore. Tickets are $20 at the door, and he’s worth at least that sum.
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