1. Britain’s Fab Four live on at the Beatles Revolution Lounge, the Mirage’s homage to the hotel’s Love show based on the Beatles’ work. Part psychedelic pub, part high-tech lounge, Revolution opened in March 2007 and can be spotted from the casino thanks to the 10-foot-tall uplit letters spelling out revolution (and highlighting L-O-V-E spelled backward). Inside the 5,000-square-foot lounge is an LCD ceiling made of 30,000 dichroic crystals—a literal interpretation of “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.” The space holds 350.
2. The 26,000-square-foot Polly Esther’s nightclub, which opened atop the Stratosphere in February 2007, is made up of four mini-clubs with capacities ranging from 250 to 500. (The entire place can hold 1,450.) The four spaces represent the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s, complete with laugh-inducing design elements—a Partridge Family bus bar, life-size Atari, oversize Rubik’s Cubes, a lit-up dance floor à la Saturday Night Fever, and even a mannequin sporting a replica of Monica Lewinsky’s infamous blue dress.
3. The MGM Grand brings a particularly sexy side of France to Nevada, having rechristened the club formerly known as La Femme as the Crazy Horse Paris in January 2007. The space is a replica of the legendary Crazy Horse club in Paris. The famed artistic burlesque show takes the stage twice nightly, Wednesdays through Mondays. Specials are available for groups of 15 or more.
4. After launching the successful Pussycat Dolls Lounge at Caesars Palace in 2005, the burlesque-group-turned-pop-band went all out and opened the Pussycat Dolls Casino in February 2007. The very pink and very neon casino, located across from the Pussycat Dolls Lounge, is as campy as Vegas gets, combining go-go -dancers, gaming, and plenty of glitz.
This information was previously published in the 2008 BizBash National Venue Guide.
