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Marc Anthony Interview at Fontainebleau Las Vegas, March Mania Idea, New Bingo Hall, Lunar New Year Attractions, Demi Lovato Sighting | Ep. 308 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's episode 308 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:03
  Dayna Roselli: Get dressed up and don't forget your dancing shoes.
• 0:05
  Dayna Roselli: Mark Anthony debuts his new residency at Fountain Blue.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_01: Vegas Revealed is with the superstar singer.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_01: I get to mount a show just for that room.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_01: Now, that pro that proposition for me is just exceptional.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: Uh because you don't do that.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: The last time I did that was like a special uh HBO special at Madison Square Garden where I mounted the show just for that room.
• 0:27
  Sean McAllister: The only bingo hall on the strip just opened, and we were there.
• 0:33
  Sean McAllister: Find out how much cash you can win each round, and it's pretty good.
• 0:37
  Dayna Roselli: It's not too early to plan for March Mania.
• 0:40
  Dayna Roselli: We've got a suggestion.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_02: Makes you feel like you're courtside.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_02: It's the best view experience, sort of being at the game.
• 0:46
  Sean McAllister: And Mr.
• 0:46
  Sean McAllister: Las Vegas is getting the documentary treatment.
• 0:49
  Sean McAllister: What we know about the new Wayne Newton film.
• 0:53
  Dayna Roselli: And celebrity sightings at the epic Elvis film opening here in Las Vegas.
• 0:57
  Dayna Roselli: Plus, Demi Lovato spends time at a Vegas Hotel Casino.
• 1:01
  Sean McAllister: All this and more coming up on Vegas Revealed.
• 1:06
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 308.
• 1:09
  Sean McAllister: Sean McAllister and Dana Roselli here with you.
• 1:12
  Sean McAllister: And the year of the fire horse has arrived, Dana.
• 1:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and later we're gonna have a list of a bunch of different things going on in Las Vegas.
• 1:20
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to go celebrate the lunar new year, a lot of the lion dances and stuff have taken place already, but uh some of them are coming up over the weekend.
• 1:28
  Dayna Roselli: If you're listening to this on the day that it drops, there's tons of photo moments up and down the strip.
• 1:33
  Dayna Roselli: We'll have that coming up.
• 1:35
  Sean McAllister: But first, there is something that has just returned to the strip that we were honestly a little surprised about because we thought bingo had kind of been on the strip for a while, but apparently it hasn't.
• 1:48
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 1:48
  Dayna Roselli: Circus Circus debuted a new bingo hall.
• 1:51
  Dayna Roselli: And we thought what was different and unique about it was that it was kind of old school and vintage with the daubers and the paper.
• 1:56
  Dayna Roselli: But then we learned, no, it's actually the only bingo hall on the strip.
• 2:01
  Dayna Roselli: There actually isn't bingo.
• 2:03
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, well, they have it at stations, but I'm like, oh, stations doesn't it isn't on the strip.
• 2:08
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 2:08
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of other properties, but they're all off the strip, but there isn't bingo on the strip.
• 2:13
  Dayna Roselli: So you know what?
• 2:14
  Dayna Roselli: Before we hash it all out, we were there, we played, we did a media preview night, and we learned all about it.
• 2:21
  Dayna Roselli: And let me tell you, listen up, this is something you're gonna want to do.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: It was an old meeting space, maybe 15-20 years back, and then it became a storage dump ground more than anything else.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I decided I was like, we need to do something different.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: And Vegas is all about vintage, it's all about um budget friendly.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: So bingo came to mind and looks amazing.
• 2:56
  Sean McAllister: Gonna get the warmups in.
• 2:57
  Dayna Roselli: He's doing his number one because we're getting ready to bingo old school circuit circuits.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's something that is really fun and affordable.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: We have the whole games.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: You get 12 games, you get a bonus and a cover-up for$30.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: $30.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, our our prizes are probably one of the best in Las Vegas.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: Every session, we're gonna give away$4,000.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: So the the cover up prize is$1,500.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna be having uh popcorn hot dogs, um, pretzels, and it's$2,$2,$2.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: Thursday through Sunday, we start at 1 p.m.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: and we have five sessions, one, three, five, seven, nine.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: The sessions are gonna last probably about an hour and 15 minutes, so about 75 minutes long.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, every person that purchases, uh, you get two free drink tickets with it also.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: So for$30, you get your chance to win up to$4,000.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: If you win every single game, you get a few drinks, you can bring friends, you can have fun.
• 4:14
  Dayna Roselli: So you do have to pay attention with the daubers.
• 4:17
  Dayna Roselli: We talked about this, I think, in a past episode, how Sean's really into the high-tech bingo because he doesn't have to pay attention.
• 4:23
  Dayna Roselli: Well, now I learned why.
• 4:24
  Dayna Roselli: Because he was waiting for a number, and then I looked up at the board and I was like, no, they've already called that number, but it was too late.
• 4:31
  Dayna Roselli: Somebody had already called bingo, and the whole time you had a winner in front of you and you lost.
• 4:37
  Sean McAllister: I already had a a winning, a winning scorecard.
• 4:42
  Sean McAllister: But because of what I-41, I think is what it was.
• 4:46
  Dayna Roselli: I don't remember.
• 4:47
  Dayna Roselli: I thought it was a 43 or something.
• 4:48
  Sean McAllister: Anyway, it was a 40-something, and it was, man, a thorn in my side.
• 4:53
  Sean McAllister: Because after I saw that, I was like, oh, I could have won this bingo.
• 4:58
  Sean McAllister: I would have been the only one.
• 5:00
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 5:00
  Sean McAllister: The only thing, it was really it was hard because we're playing around where you the shape that you were trying to get was a turtle.
• 5:09
  Sean McAllister: And with so many dots all around the rest of your bingo board, it was hard to make out which squares made up that shape.
• 5:19
  Sean McAllister: And needless to say, it was the head of the turtle that I already had but didn't know.
• 5:24
  Sean McAllister: Darn.
• 5:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that was so I'm one of those people who always is like looking up and checking to make sure I've got every like I keep reviewing it, reviewing it, reviewing it.
• 5:32
  Dayna Roselli: You're right though.
• 5:32
  Dayna Roselli: It is fast paced because I mean there's a lot of time in between numbers, but you just gotta double check everything.
• 5:38
  Dayna Roselli: And it can't so that's how it works.
• 5:40
  Dayna Roselli: So basically, um, I'm assuming most people have played bingo with paper packets before, but um paper boards.
• 5:47
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, you start out with one shape, say it's straight across, but then the next one you stay on that board, and now maybe you're gonna do like a star or whatever.
• 6:00
  Dayna Roselli: You know what I mean?
• 6:01
  Dayna Roselli: And so then it has to create something else.
• 6:03
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, it is hard to like keep up on your shapes, but so much fun, and I just loved it.
• 6:09
  Sean McAllister: It was a blast, and I mean, for the price, you can't beat it.
• 6:13
  Sean McAllister: 30 bucks to get your your packet and to have a chance to win four thousand dollars in prizes each bingo session.
• 6:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and you get two free drinks, two free drinks, two dollar popcorn, pretzels, hot.
• 6:30
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's it's really a great deal.
• 6:32
  Dayna Roselli: And you get a lot in the packet.
• 6:34
  Dayna Roselli: You get a lot of different boards.
• 6:36
  Dayna Roselli: It's a lot of games, yeah.
• 6:37
  Dayna Roselli: You get the jackpot, you get the extra bonus round.
• 6:40
  Dayna Roselli: So, but I remember back in the day um when we would go to like church bingo and stuff like that.
• 6:45
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, some people would have like some people would buy like six of those and spread them all out.
• 6:51
  Dayna Roselli: I would always wonder, like, how do they keep track?
• 6:54
  Dayna Roselli: Because that one was hard for us.
• 6:56
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 6:57
  Dayna Roselli: But it was so fun.
• 6:58
  Dayna Roselli: It's a great new addition.
• 7:00
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's gonna do so well.
• 7:01
  Dayna Roselli: We noticed Circus Circus is looking really good.
• 7:03
  Dayna Roselli: They had some fresh carpet, they had done a really cool um little entrance.
• 7:08
  Dayna Roselli: It wasn't the slot machines weren't on yet because we went to a preview night, but they have like a whole little slot area out there, vintage.
• 7:16
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's we were saying, I feel like it's cleaning up and it's getting it's getting better and better every time we walk through the door.
• 7:23
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I uh what I like is that they turned a space of uh that property that wasn't being used for anything, they turned it into something that uh is going to attract people and bring people in.
• 7:37
  Sean McAllister: They're not trying to gouge you, they're fair, I mean, more than fair prices, I would say.
• 7:44
  Sean McAllister: I think it's kind of a steal.
• 7:46
  Sean McAllister: Uh, but uh well done on Circus Circus for bringing bingo back and doing it in a way that is so approachable for just about everybody.
• 7:57
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 7:57
  Dayna Roselli: And we did talk with, you know, and then we didn't put this sound bite into the story, but we did talk with Shayna about, like, I said to her, like, I love that you just stayed true to who you are.
• 8:06
  Dayna Roselli: And she said, Listen, we can't be anything else.
• 8:08
  Dayna Roselli: We are Circus Circus, and this is what we are, and we focus on more affordable, more old school, you know, they got the adventure dome.
• 8:19
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, they are who they are, and she's like, That's who we're always gonna be.
• 8:22
  Sean McAllister: So well, and especially after they saw all the success when they uh opened slots of fun with only coin operated machines, and they also have cheap eats over there, and people just flock in there, and they're like, Well, maybe this vintage thing is we need to ride this wave and give some more vintage options, which is what they're doing with the old dauber bingo and the paper sheets.
• 8:47
  Sean McAllister: So that is that's gonna be a hit.
• 8:51
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and it's officially open the new bingo hall there.
• 8:53
  Dayna Roselli: It's Thursday through Sundays and a variety of times.
• 8:56
  Dayna Roselli: I think she mentioned it in the story.
• 8:57
  Dayna Roselli: So look it up and head over and play some bingo for 30 bucks and two drinks.
• 9:05
  Sean McAllister: Now to blue access, your VIP pass to everything Fountain Blue Las Vegas.
• 9:11
  Dayna Roselli: Sports and entertainment are in focus at the hotel casino right now as Mark Anthony and college basketball take center stage.
• 9:17
  Sean McAllister: And if you can't be courtside for all the hardwood action coming up, Fountain Blue is transforming its theater for March Mania.
• 9:24
  Dayna Roselli: That's also where Mark Anthony lights up the marquee with his new residency, Vegas My Way.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: This gave me the opportunity just to sing songs I've never performed before live that are number ones.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: It's not like I'm gonna sing anything that people wouldn't know, but I've never been able to perform live.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: So duets, um, English, ballads, salsa all night.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_04: That's why it's Vegas My Way, right?
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, if ever you're gonna live in Vegas, you might want to do it the way I would.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: Because everybody deserves the Fountain Blue experience.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody deserves just the best of the best.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_01: And it was just a proposition that I couldn't um ignore.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: Um, because simply because of what the building represents, what the brand represents, that means I have a brand new theater and I get to mount a show just for that room.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_04: The salsa vibes are gonna be vibing, right?
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_01: Through the roof, through the roof.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_04: Are there any like salsa, a couple salsa moves if nobody's ever salsa'd, that you could that we need to know?
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_04: If I'm gonna be in the audience, or is it just move the body?
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's not that hard.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's a okay, come on.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, ready?
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_04: Here it's so good.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_04: It's so good.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_01: So hot.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's so hot.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: That song.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it's it has to be like my favorite recording ever.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_01: It means so much to me.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_01: Nati Peluso is just an artist beyond belief.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, the most musical, very, very talented.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: And and it's the first time I sing a duet with uh with a female artist in 25 years.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: So um, I got it right the first time, I got it right the second time.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, I'm super super excited.
• 11:21
  Sean McAllister: Another headliner here inside the Blue Live Theater at Fountain Blue is college basketball.
• 11:26
  Sean McAllister: My favorite time of year because of the non-stop back-to-back hoops action.
• 11:31
  Sean McAllister: Fedor, what makes the Blue Life Theater such a great place to come and watch the games?
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, the m the main differentiator is the 80-foot screen right in the middle.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_02: It's so large.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_02: It's gotta be one of the biggest ones in town.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_02: It's the best place to make you feel like you're courtside.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's the best view experience for being at the game.
• 11:48
  Sean McAllister: This is year three of March Mania here at Fountain Blue.
• 11:51
  Sean McAllister: What is the vibe like inside of this room?
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's uh incredible when when a shot happens and the money line is in question, the crowd erupts, you really feel like you're courtside.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_02: And you're with 2,000 of your closest friends watching the game, everyone's animated, it's a great experience.
• 12:08
  Sean McAllister: How does uh food and beverage factor into the experience here?
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we have different packages for all.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_02: We have the floor experience where you have Gourmet food, uh, all you can drink, all you can eat, food all day.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_02: We have different price points for everyone.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_02: We also have the tavern out, which is our uh sportsbook restaurant down on the floor.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_02: Sportsbook with huge uh video screens, and you can book your period of time that you want to stay there and have food and beverage all day long.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_02: Go to our website.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_02: Tickets are available now while they're available at fountainbluelasvegas.com.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_02: It's the place for luxury basketball viewing.
• 12:43
  Sean McAllister: I mean, it is pretty cool how Fountain Blue really does transform the theater.
• 12:48
  Sean McAllister: There's couches that make it feel nice and comfy down on the floor with that massive screen.
• 12:54
  Sean McAllister: Uh, if you do want to get in on March Mania at Fountain Blue, it's March 19th through the 21st.
• 13:02
  Sean McAllister: And as you heard, there are a variety of uh ticket options.
• 13:06
  Sean McAllister: Also, the tavern over there is another viewing option.
• 13:10
  Sean McAllister: So consider Fountain Blue for all this college basketball action because you do, you want a home base and you want somewhere that's gonna be fun and exciting with a whole bunch of other people, right?
• 13:21
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it just makes it, you know, the whole experience so cool, right?
• 13:24
  Dayna Roselli: And just Fountain Blue in general.
• 13:26
  Dayna Roselli: We have to talk about our night on Friday.
• 13:28
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we went to Mark Anthony's first night of his residency, and we were blown away, but we just had this fabulous evening at Fountain Blue, and it just felt so, I don't know, elevated, luxurious, but old school too, right?
• 13:43
  Sean McAllister: It really did.
• 13:44
  Sean McAllister: So Fountain Blue invited us over to see Mark's show, and uh they invited us in for dinner at Don's Prime, which is absolutely delicious.
• 13:54
  Sean McAllister: This is the first time that I've uh had dinner over there at Don's.
• 13:59
  Sean McAllister: And first of all, when we were walking through there, I was like, wait a second, this isn't just like one dining room, they have multiple dining rooms as you go back into the restaurant.
• 14:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so it's like a big restaurant, but it has a little bit of that old school cozy feel because you know, for a while there, and there are plenty of restaurants that are big and open, and that's nice too if you're looking for that vibe, but this kind of makes it because it's dark and like intimate, and it just feels like every room that you walk into is kind of a little experience, you know?
• 14:29
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, they each have their own personality, yeah.
• 14:32
  Sean McAllister: And we were in a a corner booth, which was great, um, but the food was delicious.
• 14:37
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I I made you get the lamb chops because they're my favorite over there, and you thought they were good, right?
• 14:42
  Sean McAllister: Loved them.
• 14:43
  Dayna Roselli: And I think our waiter was saying they're using an Australian lamb now.
• 14:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, yeah, those were great.
• 14:48
  Dayna Roselli: We had the you ordered the steak.
• 14:50
  Dayna Roselli: What did we get all sliced up?
• 14:52
  Sean McAllister: Uh, we had the ribeye.
• 14:53
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, the ribeye.
• 14:54
  Sean McAllister: The bone-in ribeye.
• 14:55
  Dayna Roselli: And I said we never ordered any because you can order sauces and stuff to dip or put over.
• 15:00
  Dayna Roselli: I said we never ordered any sauces, and I looked at you and I was like, but I don't think I need any.
• 15:04
  Dayna Roselli: It was delicious.
• 15:05
  Dayna Roselli: We needed no sauce.
• 15:06
  Sean McAllister: No, no sauce, no salt or pepper.
• 15:09
  Sean McAllister: It was like perfectly seasoned.
• 15:11
  Sean McAllister: And then, of course, we had the sides.
• 15:13
  Sean McAllister: We had mac and cheese, um, the uh chopped salad.
• 15:18
  Sean McAllister: The way they serve it there is fun too.
• 15:20
  Sean McAllister: It's like a circle with some crispies on top.
• 15:24
  Dayna Roselli: The broccolini was great.
• 15:26
  Dayna Roselli: And the martini was made to perfection.
• 15:28
  Dayna Roselli: I had a martini with the blue cheese olives, and you did too, right?
• 15:31
  Sean McAllister: I did.
• 15:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that was great.
• 15:32
  Dayna Roselli: So thank you, uh, Don's Prime.
• 15:34
  Dayna Roselli: Great to experience that before we went to Mark Anthony's show.
• 15:37
  Dayna Roselli: And then, so I had a friend with me, my friend Robin.
• 15:39
  Dayna Roselli: People might see her in pictures with me a lot.
• 15:41
  Dayna Roselli: We live in the same building, and so we're like besties and we run around and do a lot of things together.
• 15:46
  Dayna Roselli: And she was like, Oh yeah, I like Mark Anthony, but you know, she we well, that's another story.
• 15:51
  Dayna Roselli: We ran actually ran into him at another event that week.
• 15:54
  Dayna Roselli: She met Mark, and uh, because I had gone up to him, and then she's like, Okay, I need to go to the show.
• 15:59
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm like, great, come with me.
• 16:01
  Dayna Roselli: Didn't know what to expect.
• 16:02
  Dayna Roselli: Um, you were there, uh, your husband Shane was there, and we were all like, we expected it to be good, but I really think we were blown away.
• 16:10
  Dayna Roselli: I don't want to say surprisingly blown away.
• 16:12
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's because we didn't know all his music.
• 16:15
  Dayna Roselli: But this is what I love because people were saying to me, Are you going to Mark Anthony?
• 16:19
  Dayna Roselli: I don't really know a lot of his music.
• 16:20
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, I know, but I like to go to shows that I and and cover shows and go to media events for shows that I wouldn't normally go to to see like I feel like that's important.
• 16:34
  Sean McAllister: And and listen go and listen to music that's not normally in your playlist.
• 16:38
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 16:38
  Sean McAllister: And that is I mean, I we talk about it all the time.
• 16:43
  Sean McAllister: The the mark of a successful residency show in Vegas is if you walk in not entirely familiar with the catalog of songs for that artist, but you walk out of the show saying that was a great show, like Mark Anthony gets the entire room wrapped up in the feeling of the music.
• 17:10
  Sean McAllister: People were up at their seats in the aisles dancing, dressed to the nines.
• 17:17
  Sean McAllister: Everybody showed up, and the uh guy who was sitting behind us, I overheard him say he was like, Man, he was like, I feel like we're at a Sinatra show.
• 17:27
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and because the band on the risers really made it feel so grand, right?
• 17:33
  Sean McAllister: It really did.
• 17:34
  Sean McAllister: I mean, it felt like Mark Anthony transported us into his own nightclub kind of a deal.
• 17:41
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 17:41
  Dayna Roselli: And when we talked to him in that interview, he said, I'm gonna create this show inside this brand new theater my way.
• 17:50
  Dayna Roselli: And it just, it really was so good.
• 17:54
  Dayna Roselli: And he sings songs in English, songs in Spanish, his Spanish hits.
• 17:58
  Dayna Roselli: And the English songs I love.
• 17:59
  Dayna Roselli: They're on my playlist now, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I forgot about that song.
• 18:03
  Dayna Roselli: And he has some hits and his voice, his presence, the way he moves, he just kind of flows all over, and then he jumps up and down.
• 18:11
  Dayna Roselli: It's just like you're in it.
• 18:12
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I mean, it's no wonder he's an international superstar because his charisma was just oozing off the stage, and it just it was like a giant hug.
• 18:24
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, you know, like he was hugging everyone in the audience, and everyone just felt so connected to him.
• 18:30
  Sean McAllister: You could tell.
• 18:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, even up in the balcony, they were going crazy up there and dancing and hands in the air.
• 18:36
  Dayna Roselli: It was great.
• 18:37
  Dayna Roselli: We all walked out and we were like, I love this show.
• 18:39
  Dayna Roselli: And we ran into some other media friends at the after party who said the same thing.
• 18:43
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 18:44
  Dayna Roselli: Um, you know, you were talking to um someone who said, like, this was a great Vegas show.
• 18:52
  Sean McAllister: It was fantastic.
• 18:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 18:53
  Dayna Roselli: It we loved it.
• 18:54
  Dayna Roselli: The after parties at Nowhere Lounge, um, and so much fun.
• 18:58
  Dayna Roselli: Mark was there with his wife.
• 18:59
  Dayna Roselli: Um, that was great to see him there.
• 19:02
  Dayna Roselli: That they had a full band playing, the martinis were flowing.
• 19:05
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it was a Vegas night.
• 19:07
  Sean McAllister: And the dancing continued there.
• 19:08
  Sean McAllister: The dance floor that is this is one thing I love about Nowhere Lounge.
• 19:14
  Sean McAllister: I like a lot of things about it.
• 19:15
  Sean McAllister: But it is a great place to go to see people up and dancing, taking full advantage of the dance floor.
• 19:23
  Sean McAllister: There's live music in there all the time, but for the after party, e after each of uh Mark Anthony's residency shows, that is the official after party, and you're gonna the dancing continues, the music continues, that vibe just keeps going.
• 19:39
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's so important to have the after party feel.
• 19:42
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, some shows even like you know, I'd say like five, six years ago, you used to do that more often.
• 19:50
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 19:50
  Dayna Roselli: And I it's a huge element.
• 19:52
  Dayna Roselli: You're paying to go to the show, you're in the moment, you you walk out, you enjoyed it so much, you want to continue even with those people and those vibes and that kind of feel again.
• 20:03
  Dayna Roselli: And this allows the you know that to happen.
• 20:07
  Sean McAllister: Well, it's because when you walk out of a a show, you're kind of like floating on this high.
• 20:12
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, like you've you've got that energy going on, and you don't want to just like go to your car and drive home.
• 20:18
  Dayna Roselli: No, and you know what?
• 20:20
  Sean McAllister: Let's keep this going.
• 20:20
  Sean McAllister: I like this.
• 20:21
  Dayna Roselli: And you don't want to leave a Mark Anthony show and then go to like a hip hop club and change the whole feel.
• 20:27
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, maybe you do, but I mean, I feel like you want to keep whatever vibe you're in going.
• 20:33
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so I think it's so smart that Fountain Blue is doing that with Nowhere Lounge, having the after parties there.
• 20:40
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm a classic martini girl, and I usually only do that, but your husband was having a lemon drop martini, and I was like, let me try that.
• 20:46
  Dayna Roselli: It the Nowhere Lounge lemon drop martini is fantastic, by the way.
• 20:50
  Dayna Roselli: Highly recommend I had two.
• 20:52
  Sean McAllister: Their uh old fashions are fantastic, and their regular martinis are really good too.
• 20:57
  Dayna Roselli: It's a great lounge.
• 20:58
  Sean McAllister: And they have like the the little bar mix in the cute little tray.
• 21:03
  Dayna Roselli: The chips and the cashews are just like delicious.
• 21:08
  Dayna Roselli: They're big and chunky, and it was good.
• 21:10
  Sean McAllister: And you hardly ever find a place that has little bar snacks for you like that, especially at a lounge.
• 21:17
  Sean McAllister: It's important.
• 21:18
  Sean McAllister: They do it right.
• 21:20
  Dayna Roselli: Fountain Blue has all the little touches, every nook and cranny of the property.
• 21:24
  Dayna Roselli: It's great.
• 21:25
  Dayna Roselli: Um we also were gonna what was I gonna say?
• 21:29
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, we wanted to mention that Mark when his other shows are okay.
• 21:32
  Dayna Roselli: He's this weekend.
• 21:33
  Dayna Roselli: If you're listening to the podcast as it drops on time, um, he's got shows.
• 21:38
  Dayna Roselli: Um, let's see here, February 20th.
• 21:40
  Dayna Roselli: So he'll be here Friday, February 21st, Saturday, um at eight o'clock, and then he's back in July, July twenty fourth, twenty fifth, twenty ninth, thirty first, and August first.
• 21:51
  Dayna Roselli: And maybe he'll announce more dates because this went really well.
• 21:54
  Sean McAllister: It did.
• 21:55
  Sean McAllister: And I would uh I would bet on the fact.
• 22:00
  Sean McAllister: That more shows are going to be announced.
• 22:02
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm kind of like, I liked it so much.
• 22:04
  Dayna Roselli: I'm kind of like, I kind of feel like going again this week.
• 22:07
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 22:08
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 22:09
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 22:09
  Dayna Roselli: There was something about it.
• 22:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 22:11
  Sean McAllister: There is something about it.
• 22:12
  Sean McAllister: It is, it is a hundred percent worth putting it on your itinerary.
• 22:18
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 22:19
  Dayna Roselli: And listen, I know we talk about Elvis a lot, but let's cross over to the Elvis movie that um Baz Leerman just put out because depends on when you're listening, but it's out in IMAX on uh February 20th.
• 22:32
  Dayna Roselli: But we saw Mark Anthony at that too.
• 22:34
  Dayna Roselli: And I love that Mark's embracing Las Vegas.
• 22:37
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 22:37
  Sean McAllister: Oh right out the gate.
• 22:39
  Dayna Roselli: Right out the gate.
• 22:40
  Dayna Roselli: We we had interviewed him on a Monday, and then the Tuesday night we went to the premiere over at the Westgate in the International Theater where Elvis used to perform to watch a preview of the movie.
• 22:51
  Dayna Roselli: And we saw Mark Anthony there.
• 22:53
  Dayna Roselli: He was there with the the owner of the Fountain Blue.
• 22:55
  Dayna Roselli: So that was really cool to see him out and about too.
• 22:57
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it was.
• 22:58
  Sean McAllister: And there were uh some other notable people in the audience as well.
• 23:03
  Sean McAllister: Um, a lot of people came dressed as Elvis for the screening.
• 23:07
  Sean McAllister: Um, I think that we're both on the same page, Dana, in the feeling that this film is just such uh first of all, it's like more of a documentary concert film kind of a thing.
• 23:23
  Sean McAllister: Elvis himself narrates the whole film.
• 23:26
  Sean McAllister: Yeah there's an interview done with Elvis where he talks about his career, his his upbringing, his dealings with fans, everything he touches on.
• 23:37
  Sean McAllister: And this documentary is put together with that interview kind of tying everything together.
• 23:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 23:46
  Dayna Roselli: And they let it breathe.
• 23:48
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 23:48
  Dayna Roselli: So I wasn't sure because I know Baz isn't so creative.
• 23:52
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, some of his movies can be a little flashy, like the Elvis movie that came out with Austin Butler.
• 23:58
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 23:59
  Dayna Roselli: You know, it moved, it was pop, it was, you know, theatrical and all that.
• 24:02
  Dayna Roselli: And so I didn't know what to expect, but I love that he just let it be.
• 24:06
  Dayna Roselli: Elvis in rehearsal, Elvis backstage, Elvis walking out to do the show in Vegas.
• 24:13
  Dayna Roselli: Then we actually get to hear him perform a few full songs and his banter.
• 24:18
  Dayna Roselli: And you just feel like you're literally sitting there at the show.
• 24:21
  Dayna Roselli: And what an honor it was to sit in the theater because we're watching him perform in the theater that we were sitting in the same seat.
• 24:28
  Dayna Roselli: It's just cra it was crazy.
• 24:29
  Sean McAllister: It it was.
• 24:30
  Sean McAllister: And I I think what struck me was first of all, um Elvis's sense of humor.
• 24:37
  Dayna Roselli: So funny.
• 24:38
  Sean McAllister: And also uh how kind he was to the people who were who he worked with, who he met.
• 24:46
  Sean McAllister: Um in the footage that you see, it just came across that he was just a very kind uh person.
• 24:54
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and people have always said that, so it's nice to see it for your own eyes.
• 24:57
  Sean McAllister: It is, yeah, and also just the wide cross-section of people that he surrounded himself with.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 25:07
  Sean McAllister: And I just I loved that.
• 25:09
  Sean McAllister: And I had musical influences that he had too, going, you know, from gospel to rock and roll.
• 25:15
  Sean McAllister: Like it it was a r his music was really uh meshing together of a bunch of different styles.
• 25:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 25:23
  Dayna Roselli: And even yeah, him and they touched on I liked it.
• 25:27
  Dayna Roselli: They just they touched on, you know, how how much his mother meant to him.
• 25:31
  Dayna Roselli: They touched on Priscilla and Lisa Marie very briefly.
• 25:35
  Dayna Roselli: I love that the the movie focused on Elvis.
• 25:39
  Dayna Roselli: It wasn't about the downfall and when he gained all this weight and when things started to, you know, we started to notice there was, you know, he was feeling it and something was going on.
• 25:48
  Dayna Roselli: It didn't, it just was the good moments of Elvis, but also you see a little bit of the, you know, uh him growing as an artist and moving through the years and him really wanting to leave and travel the world, but being held back, and that story kind of like there's a little hinting of that.
• 26:09
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, but it just it was just it was a positive movie.
• 26:12
  Sean McAllister: It was.
• 26:12
  Sean McAllister: It wasn't it wasn't about the drama in his life, it was just him in his own words with actual footage of him that really hasn't been seen before.
• 26:24
  Dayna Roselli: It is like a concert, it's like a concert film.
• 26:27
  Dayna Roselli: Because some people say, Well, I don't like documentaries.
• 26:29
  Dayna Roselli: Well, yeah, you're not gonna sit there and hear one person and then another person and another person talk and be interviewed and sit down and talk about Elvis.
• 26:36
  Dayna Roselli: This is Elvis and his music, and it was great.
• 26:40
  Dayna Roselli: His costume changes, the ladies.
• 26:42
  Sean McAllister: The costume the ladies were going crazy on fire.
• 26:47
  Dayna Roselli: On fire.
• 26:48
  Dayna Roselli: So it's a great film.
• 26:49
  Dayna Roselli: Go see it.
• 26:50
  Dayna Roselli: It's in IMAX her week, and then it's uh everywhere, out in theaters everywhere.
• 26:53
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, highly recommend it.
• 26:55
  Dayna Roselli: So we mentioned at the top of the show about Lunar New Year, and it is officially Lunar New Year, and it's celebrated here uh in Las Vegas in so many different ways, or like dragon dances and performances.
• 27:07
  Dayna Roselli: Some of them are over, some of them haven't happened yet, but we're gonna go through just a quick list of the things that you can still check out.
• 27:13
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe you want to take some photos, you want to go see, you want to go to a performance.
• 27:18
  Dayna Roselli: And one of them um is something that comes back every year at the forum shops at Caesars Palace.
• 27:23
  Dayna Roselli: It's this huge dragon they put on display.
• 27:25
  Dayna Roselli: It's right there as you kind of enter the forum shops from the casino.
• 27:29
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and uh this is an annual thing.
• 27:32
  Sean McAllister: Caesars Palace uh always does a big celebration, but that dragon will be there at a good chance to grab some photos because just about every resort is decked out for Lunar New Year.
• 27:46
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 27:47
  Sean McAllister: And this is the big display that they have over there at the forum shops.
• 27:51
  Sean McAllister: At the Grand Canal shops down at Venetian, uh, they're doing uh different cultural performances there in St.
• 27:59
  Sean McAllister: Mark's Square through Sunday.
• 28:02
  Sean McAllister: So if you want to see some of those performances, that's a good place to keep in mind.
• 28:08
  Sean McAllister: Um, there's uh smoke breathing dragon in there near the Louis Vuitton store and a bunch of other cool things throughout the property.
• 28:17
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so that'll be there, and I think you can go take pictures with that, just like the one at Forum Shops.
• 28:22
  Dayna Roselli: It's like illuminated and gold, and um actually I think we drove we walked by that uh a couple years ago and took some pictures of it when we were on our way to something.
• 28:30
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we did, I think.
• 28:30
  Dayna Roselli: I remember being with you.
• 28:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 28:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 28:32
  Dayna Roselli: He's back.
• 28:33
  Dayna Roselli: Um, uh right in front of Louis Vuitton.
• 28:35
  Dayna Roselli: We did not go into Louis Vuitton because we couldn't afford anything at that time.
• 28:39
  Dayna Roselli: But we touched the dragon for good luck.
• 28:43
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and then also um, if you want to go actually see one of the, you know, the dragon dances, so the one at Resorts World hasn't happened yet, depending on when you're listening to this, but um, Resorts World is doing their lunar new year celebration over the weekend.
• 28:56
  Dayna Roselli: They have the lion and dragon dance, um, and that is Saturday at 4 p.m.
• 29:02
  Dayna Roselli: And it will feature a traditional lion and dragon dance, a high pole performance, lettuce blessing, and a firecracker finale.
• 29:11
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, yeah.
• 29:11
  Sean McAllister: Feed the lettuce to the dragon for good fortune.
• 29:14
  Dayna Roselli: That's fun.
• 29:15
  Dayna Roselli: So I guess you can um, I think they said to meet in the what do they call the the district at four, and then the it will flow throughout the property.
• 29:23
  Dayna Roselli: So you can follow along.
• 29:24
  Sean McAllister: And that is on Saturday, the 21st.
• 29:26
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 29:27
  Dayna Roselli: And then the Bellagio Conservatory is uh all decked out for Lunar New Year right now, and I that's open 24-7.
• 29:34
  Dayna Roselli: I believe that display goes till February 24th before they change it over for spring.
• 29:39
  Sean McAllister: And it's the the year of the fire horse.
• 29:42
  Sean McAllister: So I've I got my hair cut, I got a new wallet, I got uh things cleaned and organized.
• 29:50
  Sean McAllister: So the if you do though if you do those things, then good fortune and prosperity is what the fire horse should be riding in with.
• 30:00
  Dayna Roselli: I need to get a new wallet.
• 30:02
  Dayna Roselli: Mine got stolen.
• 30:03
  Dayna Roselli: Oh jeez.
• 30:04
  Dayna Roselli: It's not a good year.
• 30:05
  Dayna Roselli: It hasn't been a good we're helping the fire horse.
• 30:07
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm gonna open my wallet and and people can just throw money at it.
• 30:11
  Dayna Roselli: Is that what's supposed to happen?
• 30:13
  Sean McAllister: Have lettuce thrown at you, just like the dragon.
• 30:16
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's do some celebrity news with a Vegas twist.
• 30:22
  Dayna Roselli: All right, well, there was a lot of demi lavato sightings at Resorts World recently.
• 30:28
  Dayna Roselli: She was in town to headline TikTok's live fest.
• 30:32
  Dayna Roselli: And uh apparently she enjoyed some accommodations, spending time at Villa 66.
• 30:37
  Dayna Roselli: She was taking advantage of the property.
• 30:39
  Dayna Roselli: She went out to a nice uh Valentine's dinner, an early Valentine's dinner at Carver Steak, went with her husband, Jordan, and so it was nice to see Demi in town.
• 30:50
  Sean McAllister: And uh Villa 66 is a nice spot to stay.
• 30:54
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it is.
• 30:55
  Dayna Roselli: We were did like a little tour once.
• 30:57
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, we had a little event there, and it was really nice.
• 31:01
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 31:02
  Dayna Roselli: Also, I spotted on Instagram um because I started following Robert Schwartzmann, who's a director, after we went to the Beverly Theater movie preview premiere of The Last Showgirl.
• 31:18
  Dayna Roselli: The last showgirl.
• 31:18
  Dayna Roselli: See, I almost said the life of a showgirl because I'm thinking Taylor Swift.
• 31:21
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 31:22
  Dayna Roselli: The last showgirl.
• 31:23
  Dayna Roselli: Excellent film with Pamela Anderson.
• 31:25
  Dayna Roselli: They shot it here in Las Vegas.
• 31:27
  Dayna Roselli: Started following Robert after that, and then saw him post that he's doing a documentary with Wayne Newton now.
• 31:33
  Sean McAllister: Which, I mean, this is going to be Wayne has such incredible stories coming to Las Vegas at such a young age, performing on Vegas stages.
• 31:45
  Sean McAllister: I think he started when he was 15.
• 31:47
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 31:48
  Sean McAllister: You know, when he and he just uh has kept going ever since then.
• 31:53
  Sean McAllister: The people he's met, the I think he has like uh either a watch or cufflinks from Frank Sinatra.
• 32:01
  Sean McAllister: You know, we we've each had the opportunity to get to know Wayne and hear some of these stories too, be over at his house, you know, the his big estate.
• 32:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 32:12
  Dayna Roselli: I've never been there actually.
• 32:13
  Sean McAllister: Oh, really?
• 32:14
  Dayna Roselli: No, I've only well I picked up his sister-in-law.
• 32:17
  Dayna Roselli: I pulled in once to pick up Trish for an event, and that's it.
• 32:21
  Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh.
• 32:22
  Sean McAllister: It was such a cool place.
• 32:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I hear it's great.
• 32:24
  Dayna Roselli: Shenandoah, is that what you're doing?
• 32:26
  Dayna Roselli: Shenandoah, yeah.
• 32:27
  Dayna Roselli: He's not there anymore, though.
• 32:28
  Dayna Roselli: He's not.
• 32:29
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 32:29
  Dayna Roselli: No, but we're gonna, I'm sure, hear all about it, and it'll be part of the documentary.
• 32:33
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 32:33
  Dayna Roselli: He showed some great pictures and said he's looking forward to telling the story.
• 32:37
  Dayna Roselli: So um this will be great.
• 32:40
  Dayna Roselli: It he called it a film, and so I wasn't sure.
• 32:42
  Dayna Roselli: He said I'm shooting a film with Wayne Newton, but then he showed a headline and it said it was a documentary.
• 32:49
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm sure it's a documentary type film on Wayne Newton.
• 32:53
  Sean McAllister: So yeah, I love it.
• 32:54
  Sean McAllister: Stay tuned for that.
• 32:55
  Sean McAllister: That'll be great.
• 32:56
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we did mention that we saw Mark Anthony at the Elvis premiere at Westgate.
• 33:00
  Dayna Roselli: Love that.
• 33:00
  Dayna Roselli: He was with the owner of Fountain Blue, some other people we ran into.
• 33:03
  Dayna Roselli: Holly Madison was there, uh, Ivan Kane that owns uh runs Ivan Kane's 40 Deuce over at Mandalay Bay, lots of other familiar faces.
• 33:12
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it was it was just such a great Vegas night.
• 33:17
  Dayna Roselli: And you could tell when people, did you notice that when a certain someone showed up on screen?
• 33:23
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know who, maybe it was Elvis.
• 33:25
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know if it was Elvis' brother, stepbrother, um, or one of his handlers.
• 33:32
  Dayna Roselli: Uh there was a group of people behind us anyway that kept cheering.
• 33:36
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 33:36
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm assuming they were either in the audience or knew the person, but there were there are people seen in the film that are still with us today.
• 33:43
  Sean McAllister: They are, and they were there in that room.
• 33:46
  Sean McAllister: I mean, they have, you know, we were hearing Elvis's recollections of his life and career really for the first time from him, but there were people in the room who actually had those personal experiences, being friends with Elvis, being a part of his crew, part of his team.
• 34:07
  Sean McAllister: And that is just such uh, I mean, such a unique opportunity, and uh, you know, so grateful to have been able to be there for such a it was a historic event.
• 34:21
  Dayna Roselli: It really was.
• 34:22
  Dayna Roselli: It was great.
• 34:23
  Dayna Roselli: Loved it.
• 34:23
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• 34:29
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• 34:36
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• 34:45
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• 34:52
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and this is kind of a one-stop shop to uh learn about what you want to do in Las Vegas and book everything all in one place so that you don't have to hop around to 15 different websites to book everything a la carte.
• 35:09
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• 35:22
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• 35:22
  Dayna Roselli: And you can build that itinerary and then share it with the group if you're going with a group.
• 35:26
  Sean McAllister: Right, yes.
• 35:27
  Dayna Roselli: So we'll talk a little more in depth about that soon, but love it.
• 35:30
  Dayna Roselli: Love to hear all the things they're doing over there.
• 35:32
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• 35:40
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• 35:41
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• 35:43
  Dayna Roselli: And it's a must-have if you're coming to Vegas or even if you live here.
• 35:46
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• 35:47
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it is.
• 35:48
  Sean McAllister: And bookmark the uh website as well, Vegasnearme.com, um, because that really is your one-stop shop for everything Las Vegas.
• 35:58
  Dayna Roselli: And you know what?
• 35:59
  Dayna Roselli: I forgot to put in we were gonna do the Nevada State drink.
• 36:03
  Dayna Roselli: So we're gonna do that next week.
• 36:04
  Dayna Roselli: Again, we got we were talking last week that we're gonna do it this week and tell you about the new Nevada State drink, but we'll do that next week.
• 36:11
  Sean McAllister: Well, listen, if you are a longtime listener of Vegas Revealed, you know we uh go off on tangents and you know we we have all these sidebars.
• 36:22
  Sean McAllister: Um, but eventually we'll come back around.
• 36:25
  Sean McAllister: Next episode, we'll come back around to the Nevada State drink.
• 36:29
  Sean McAllister: We promise.
• 36:30
  Sean McAllister: Perfect.
• 36:31
  Sean McAllister: Have a great week, everyone.