VEGAS! The Show

Tribute / Musical Theater

Season: Ongoing

VEGAS! The Show is one of the most celebrated long-running variety productions on the Las Vegas Strip, performing nightly at the Saxe Theater inside the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. Created and produced by David Saxe — the owner of the Saxe Theater and one of the most prolific theater operators in Las Vegas history — the show is a 90-minute tribute to more than 60 years of Las Vegas entertainment heritage, executed with a full live orchestra, an ensemble cast of more than 30 performers, elaborate period costumes, and production values that place it among the most technically ambitious live productions at the mid-Strip price point. The show runs six nights per week with a 7:00 PM start time, and tickets are available through the Saxe Theater box office, Ticketmaster, Viator, and third-party vendors starting from $57 for general admission, with a Double Down Deal bundle available from $47. The VEGAS! The Show concept is built around a chronological journey through the entertainers and performance styles that defined Las Vegas as a destination for live entertainment from the 1940s through the 2000s. The show opens in the Rat Pack era — Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., the lounges of the Sands and the Flamingo — and moves through the decades with tribute performances covering Elvis Presley at his peak International Hotel residency years, the high-energy showgirl revue tradition pioneered by the Lido de Paris and Jubilee!, the magic spectacle era of Siegfried and Roy, Liberace at his most theatrical, and contemporary icons including Tina Turner. Each segment reflects serious research into the original performances: the Rat Pack segment reproduces the onstage dynamic and banter that defined the era; the Elvis tribute captures the specific vocal style and physical performance of the Las Vegas residency years; the showgirl numbers feature genuine feather headdresses and 1960s Foli'es Berg'ere-inspired choreography that pays authentic homage to the theatrical tradition of the Las Vegas revue. The production is staged at the Saxe Theater, a 350-seat purpose-built performance space on the lower level of the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood Resort. The theater was designed with sightlines that give most seats an unobstructed view of the main stage, and the sound system is calibrated for the intimate theater environment. The live orchestra — positioned in a visible pit at stage left — gives VEGAS! The Show a musical authenticity that recorded-music productions cannot replicate: the horn lines are performed live, the piano runs are played in real time, and the arrangements have the spontaneous energy of actual musicians responding to each other rather than a synchronized playback track. This live musical element is one of the defining features that distinguishes the show from tribute productions at smaller or lower-budget venues. The comedy component is integrated throughout rather than segregated into a separate segment. Vaudeville-style pantomime, slapstick callback humor to each era, and direct audience interaction sequences are woven into the transitions between major tribute acts, keeping the energy high and the pacing from feeling like a lecture in entertainment history. The acrobatics sequences — which occur during the more contemporary segments of the show — involve aerial rigging and floor work that adds physical spectacle to the vocal and comedic performances. For guests who want to understand the Las Vegas entertainment tradition through a single two-hour experience, VEGAS! The Show delivers more content, more production scale, and more historical range than any competing production at its price point on the Strip. The show has won multiple Las Vegas Review-Journal Best of Las Vegas awards and maintains high ratings on Tripadvisor and Viator, reflecting years of refinement and consistency. Tickets and logistics: the Saxe Theater is accessible from the Miracle Mile Shops main entrance on the Level 1 corridor, adjacent to the Planet Hollywood casino floor. The theater doors open 30 minutes before showtime. Seating is assigned, and the theater configuration places all seats within 60 feet of the stage. Parking is available in the Planet Hollywood self-park garage directly adjacent to the resort. Rideshare drop-off on Harmon Avenue or the Las Vegas Boulevard Planet Hollywood entrance is the most efficient non-driving approach. The Miracle Mile Shops offer extensive dining options before the show — multiple restaurants are within a five-minute walk of the theater entrance. After the show, the Planet Hollywood gaming floor and the bars in the Miracle Mile corridor are immediately accessible, making VEGAS! The Show a natural anchor for an evening that combines dinner, live entertainment, gaming, and late-night activities without requiring transportation between venues. The show runs Tuesday through Sunday with dark nights on Monday, making it available for most Las Vegas itineraries regardless of which days of the week a guest is in the city. For tourists who have never experienced a large-scale Las Vegas production revue, VEGAS! The Show delivers the genre in its most accessible and well-produced form: the running time is 90 minutes, the pacing never slows to the degree that first-time revue attendees find common in longer productions, and the variety of content — era changes every 12 to 15 minutes — keeps the program fresh throughout. For repeat Las Vegas visitors who have experienced the show in a prior year, the production is regularly updated to incorporate new material and new performers while maintaining the structural framework that audiences return for. The Rat Pack segment in particular draws audience members who come specifically for the Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin material, and the quality of the vocal performances in this segment has been a consistent focus of the critical praise the show receives from publications including the Las Vegas Sun and Las Vegas Magazine. The showgirl tradition represented in VEGAS! The Show is one of the few places on the current Strip where the Las Vegas revue format is presented with the production ambition that defined the mid-century showgirl era. The Jubilee! production at Bally's, which closed in 2016 after 34 years as the last of the great casino showgirl revues, left a gap in the Strip entertainment landscape that VEGAS! The Show partially addresses — not as a direct replacement, but as a production that treats the showgirl tradition as worth celebrating rather than archiving. The costumes in the showgirl segments are custom-made and maintained to a standard that reflects the theatrical importance the production places on visual fidelity to the era. For groups: VEGAS! The Show is one of the more group-friendly productions on the Strip because the content — tribute acts, comedy, spectacle — has broad appeal across age ranges, musical backgrounds, and levels of familiarity with Las Vegas entertainment history. Birthday groups, family reunions, bachelorette parties, and corporate groups all find accessible entry points in the show's varied programming. Group ticket packages are available through the Saxe Theater box office for parties of 10 or more, with pricing that reflects a discount from the standard ticket rate. The historical content of VEGAS! The Show functions as its own kind of educational experience for guests who may know individual performers like Elvis or the Rat Pack by reputation but have never seen their performance styles recreated at theatrical scale. The Liberace segment in particular demonstrates a performance style — elaborate piano playing combined with extravagant costume showmanship — that defined one of Las Vegas's most iconic residencies but that has no direct contemporary equivalent. The Penn and Teller tribute segment brings the magic-plus-comedy format that the Las Vegas duo pioneered into a revue context, demonstrating how their influence on Las Vegas entertainment has propagated into the variety show format. The connecting tissue between these tribute segments — the narration, the comedy transition pieces, and the historical context provided between acts — elevates the show from a simple catalog of celebrity impressions into something closer to a curated exhibition of what Las Vegas performance history looked like, sounded like, and felt like across six decades. For visitors to Las Vegas who want to understand why the city became the entertainment capital that it did, VEGAS! The Show provides a compressed and viscerally engaging version of that answer. The production has been reviewed by major Las Vegas publications including the Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas Weekly, and multiple national travel outlets whose coverage emphasizes its status as one of the rare Strip productions that delivers consistent quality at an accessible price point. Tickets remain the best value in the mid-Strip theater entertainment category for a production of this ambition and consistency. The Saxe Theater at Planet Hollywood operates as part of a broader complex of theaters and performance venues that David Saxe has developed across Las Vegas over the past two decades. The Miracle Mile Shops venue — a 550,000-square-foot retail and entertainment complex that wraps around the main casino floor of Planet Hollywood — creates a unique context for live theater: guests who arrive for dinner and shopping can add the show spontaneously rather than planning it as a standalone outing. The show's 7:00 PM start time fits naturally into a dinner-and-entertainment itinerary that begins with a 5:30 PM or 6:00 PM dinner reservation at one of the Miracle Mile restaurants, moves to the Saxe Theater for the 90-minute show, and continues with nightlife on the casino floor or at the nearby clubs along the Las Vegas Strip. Planet Hollywood is centrally positioned on the Strip at 3667 Las Vegas Boulevard South, within walking distance of the Paris Las Vegas, Bellagio, Bally's, and the Strip's most concentrated restaurant corridor. The central location gives the show access to a tourist foot-traffic pool that venues at the north or south ends of the Strip cannot match, and the impulse-ticket-purchase rate reflects this: a meaningful portion of VEGAS! The Show's audience books tickets on the day of the show after seeing signage or reading about the production while walking through the Miracle Mile Shops. For planned visits, advance booking is recommended on weekends and during peak conventions weeks when Planet Hollywood and the adjacent properties see higher hotel occupancy. The Double Down Deal bundle — which pairs a VEGAS! The Show ticket with a second activity or dining credit at a reduced combined price — is one of the better entertainment value packages available on the Strip for guests who want to combine multiple activities in a single evening. The production team has maintained the show's quality through what is inevitably a high-turnover cast environment — the performers who portray each era's icons are vetted for genuine vocal and physical resemblance to their subjects, and the musical direction ensures that live band performances match the original arrangements rather than relying on simplified or contemporary reinterpretations. The show is one of roughly a dozen long-running theatrical productions currently active on the Las Vegas Strip, a category that has contracted since the pandemic but that VEGAS! The Show has navigated by maintaining consistent quality and adapting its marketing to the post-pandemic Las Vegas tourism recovery. Reviews on Viator consistently rate the show above 4.0 out of 5.0, with particular praise for the live band, the quality of the Elvis and Rat Pack tribute segments, and the value relative to the ticket price. For guests interested in booking, the Ticketmaster listing shows available performance dates through the end of 2026. The Miracle Mile Shops are open daily until midnight, which means the theater area remains activated and accessible before and after the show regardless of the season or day of the week. VEGAS! The Show is the flagship production in the David Saxe Entertainment portfolio and represents his flagship investment in the Planet Hollywood complex as a theater destination rather than purely a casino and retail property.