Cypress Street Marketplace at Caesars Palace is the Kats Report bureau for the moment. Quick notes to report as I await my return to “Absinthe,” the city’s preeminent tented circus show:
• The latest addition to “Absinthe,” as we are on topic, is Lijana Wallenda-Hernandez. Termed a “high-wire heiress,” she is a seventh-generation member of the Flying Wallendas, great-granddaughter of family patriarch Karl Wallenda and the wife of regular “Absinthe” high-wire performer Tony Hernandez.
With Hernandez, the act is known as the Esteemed Gentlemen of the High Wire. It will still be called that, even with its lone female artist taking the stage, or in this instance, the wire. Wallenda-Hernandez is in the show while Tony is working on a separate project in Chicago. “Absinthe” celebrates its 500th show at Caesars Palace on Sunday.
• LVH (once known around the globe as Las Vegas Hilton) is keeping its theater busy with famous performers. Liza Minnelli returns for a one-night engagement May 12. On June 1-2, Glen Campbell is headlining at Hilton Theater. Campbell is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and has dubbed his current tour “The Goodbye Tour.” Tickets go on sale Wednesday at LVH; prices are $49 to $79.
• Before there was Cirque du Soleil, there was MOMIX, the performance troupe founded in 1981 by Moses Pendleton. MOMIX is an offshoot of Pendleton’s ground-breaking company Pilobolus, which is largely credited with bringing such acts as duel contortionists (used in nearly every Cirque show) to mainstream audiences. Several years ago, Pendleton was enlisted to help modify “Le Reve -- the Dream” at Wynn Las Vegas. MOMIX is performing “Botanica” at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts on April 20. Tickets start at $24 (go to the Smith Center website for information). To see the evolved version of the troupe many feel sparked the entertainment medium made famous by Cirque, check out MOMIX.
• And, of Cirque, something I have found after interviewing executive Daniel Lamarre a bunch of times: The more passionate he becomes, the more pronounced his French accent becomes. He was surprised to know this, but it is so.
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