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Daniel Kline

Las Vegas Strips Adds a New Kind of Entertainment

The various Caesars properties on the Las Vegas Strip offer an incredible array of shows. 

You can see classic Las Vegas acts including Wayne Newton at the Flamingo and Donny Osmond at Harrah's along with massive headliners including Adele, Garth Brooks, and Sting, who all call the Colosseum at Caesars Palace home.

Caesars Entertainment (CZR) also offers some of the biggest names in electronic dance music and top-tier DJs playing both its nightclubs and its day clubs. 

But those huge name acts only just touch the surface of what the resort casino offers across the Strip.  

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Caesars also hosts quirky comedians like Tape Face, niche shows including "Menopause the Musical" (both at Harrah's), and multiple topless reviews featuring women dancing to a variety of music styles. 

If that's not enough to keep you entertained, the company also offers "RuPaul's Drag Race" at the Flamingo, country stars Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert headlining (separately) at Planet Hollywood, and comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who regularly plays the Colosseum.

That's not a complete list, but it gives you an idea of the depth of options Caesars offers. 

Add in that MGM Resorts International (MGM), which also has multiple Strip properties has a similarly diverse set of headliners, shows, comedians, and quirky performers, and you can see how hard it is to bring something new to the Las Vegas Strip.

Caesars's Harrah's has managed to do this, recently adding a new show that's unlike anything else on the Strip right now. 

Caesars has pretty much every kind of entertainment you can imagine at its Strip properties.

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'Hyprov' Comes to the Las Vegas Strip     

In the old days of Las Vegas hypnosis was a staple of smaller-scale shows. And improv has never been a particularly big thing on the Las Vegas Strip (although multiple shows have used it). 

Now, improv legend Colin Mochrie of "Whose Line Is It Anyways?" fame and the world-renowned hypnotist Asad Mecci have created "Hyprov: Improv Under Hypnosis," a new show that combines their two disciplines.

"The 100-minute live show combines hypnosis and improv -- two art forms that have mystified and entertained fans, skeptics, and everyone in between worldwide -- for a totally unique comedy experience that The Times of London declared 'a celebration of the human imagination,'" according to the show's website.

Hyprov uses 20 volunteers from the audience who are hypnotized and then, while being led by an experienced improviser, perform the rest of the show.

"In the hands of two experts, and solely crafted from the 'Hyprovisors' uninhibited, unconscious minds, each show is an entirely original and completely unforgettable theatrical experience. The show also has improvised music throughout," according to the website.

Mochrie and Mecci will appear, but other improvisers will headline the Las Vegas shows on some nights, Those artists include Stephanie Courtney, best known as Flo from Progressive, Jonathan Magnum, Barrett Foa, and Jeff Hiller.

The Las Vegas production will occupy the same theater as Donny Osmond at Harrah's running Wednesday through Sunday at 8 p.m. Mecci will be the host/hypnotist alongside the rotating cast of improvisers.   

Music for the show was created by the noted artist Rufus Wainwright.

  

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