{"id":20306,"date":"2018-07-24T19:30:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T02:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=20306"},"modified":"2018-07-24T19:34:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T02:34:11","slug":"imaginarium-falls-victim-tropicana-curse-set-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/imaginarium-falls-victim-tropicana-curse-set-close\/","title":{"rendered":"“Imaginarium” Falls Victim to Tropicana Curse, Set to Close"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A magic show featuring David Goldrake, “Imaginarium,” has announced it will close at Tropicana on Sep. 30, 2018.<\/p>\n
Lackluster ticket sales sealed the fate of the production show after a little more than a year at Tropicana.<\/p>\n
How do we know it wasn’t selling tickets? Because successful shows don’t close in Las Vegas, that’s why.<\/p>\nTrying to decide if it’s the gaze or hairpiece that make us the most uncomfortable.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
A news release about the show’s closure attempted some misdirection, par for the course both because it’s a magic show and it’s Las Vegas. Public relations horseshittery is the law.<\/p>\n
The release says, “Award-winning grand illusionist David Goldrake announces today he is planning to open a new show, set to debut to Las Vegas audiences in Spring, 2019.”<\/p>\n
Right. In the parlance of Vegas entertainment, “Imaginarium” is on “haitus.”<\/p>\n
To Goldrake’s credit, the show lastest 300 shows, according to the release, anything but a sure bet given what’s come to be called the “Tropicana curse.”<\/p>\nNo, the Tropicana curse isn’t really a thing. We just like being the first result in Google when people search for that term.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Other shows that have fallen victim to the Tropicana curse include “Cherry Boom Boom,” “Raiding the Rock Vault,” “Mama Mia,” “Purple Reign,” Murray Sawchuck and Brad Garrett’s comedy club.<\/p>\n
The performer hit hardest by the curse, though, has to be magician Jan Rouven. Rouven is currently in jail facing federal child porn charges.<\/p>\n
While we haven’t seen “Imaginarium,” it appears to be a classic Las Vegas magic “spectacle,” teeming with dramatic hand gestures and lots of “Voila!”<\/p>\n
You know, the kind of magic show people aren’t clamoring to see anymore.<\/p>\n
Do yourself a favor and catch Penn & Teller at Rio or Mac King at Harrah’s.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A magic show featuring David Goldrake, “Imaginarium,” has announced it will close at Tropicana on Sep. 30, 2018. Lackluster ticket sales sealed the fate of the production show after a little more than a year at Tropicana. How do we know it wasn’t selling tickets? Because successful shows don’t close in Las Vegas, that’s why. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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