He built a theater at The Mirage for Siegfried & Roy and created a billion-dollar partnership that lasted more than a decade.
And before hardly anyone knew of the French-Canadian acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil, he staged a tented show on the Strip, called “Nouvelle Experience,” also at The Mirage. That was in November 1993.
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First of all, I would like to say that that statue of Siegfried and Roy with the cat is terrifying (like not quite as terrifying as that grotesque bust of Cristiano Ronaldo or that nightmare inducing statue of Lucille Ball, but like worse than Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial). I started watching The Last Tycoon last night (the script is so- so but the costumes are pretty great), and I was reminded of the plot while reading this article. Wynn may not produce in Hollywood for markets in Germany, but like Matt Bomer's character, he has a very unusual market to cater to: Las Vegas tourists. This side of theatre (commercial theatre) has always struck me as a completely different animal than regional or smaller productions, specifically because the process of developing and creating shows stems from the very capitalist idea of what will sell the most. That philosophy is greater, I think, in commercial shows than any other. But even so, I wish I had the budgets that these shows seem to throw around like they're nothing.
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