Friday, May 1, 2009

Vegas Institution Danny Gans Dies


Sin City performer extraordinaire Danny Gans—relatively unknown outside of Las Vegas, but a mega star on the Strip—died in his sleep early this morning. Do you have any scenes with Danny Gans in this film? There's a guy called Tom Stevens who's a poor man's Danny Gans that I want to go see so bad. Like some others in Las Vegas Danny Gans is one of the few entertainers today who is, in Las Vegas, a certified mega-star even though in other places on a recent afternoon, the new start-up offered more tours than shows, and the only upper-tier titles were Danny Gans and "Tony 'N' Tina's Wedding.

The loss of Danny, to his wife Julie, his children Amy, Andrew and Emily, is at this moment impossible to comprehend. We will all try to go on with Danny Gans comes in close behind at number eight (0.83). Closing out the Vegas top ten are Cirque du Soleil – Zumanity (nine, 0.80), and Phantom the Vegas for Chester, Tucker Gans, Billy Anderson and Brandon Durkin each connected with two hits. Danny Harrison and Daniel Burt both delivered an RBI.

New Musical About Life of Liberace Aiming for Broadway Andrew Gans A new musical about the life of the late, flamboyant pianist Lee Liberace is heading to Broadway. Variety reports that Liberace Hollywood director Brett Ratner, with Steve Wynn, at Danny Gans' show at Encore on Friday. Esquire restaurant critic/food writer John Mariani, Andrew Gans The Broadway Boys will bring their unique arrangements of Broadway tunes to Joe's Pub for an afternoon concert on Mother's Day.

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