New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas is ladies’ night in more ways than one this year, with Lizzo, Christina Aguilera and Paula Abdul dominating the shortlist of headliners scheduled to be onstage as the clock counts down to midnight on the Strip. One performer stands head and shoulders above them all—and not because she’s wearing her 16-inch heels. Lady Gaga encapsulated the pop-culture zeitgeist of the past 10 years like no other contemporary superstar, and the next three dates of her Enigma and Jazz & Piano shows provides an optimal opportunity for her to pull out all the stops.
The first performance falls on the date of the inaugural anniversary of Enigma, the full-blown concert version of her dual-edged residency at Park Theater inside Park MGM. She had wrapped production on A Star Is Born, but the world had yet to see her making chemistry with Bradley Cooper on the silver screen and was largely unaware of the Haus Laboratories cruelty-free cosmetics line she was developing.
Now her Little Monster superfans can show up at her anniversary show inspired by her look for the L.A. premiere of the blockbuster movie with the aid of liquid shimmer powder, lip liner and lip gloss from Gaga’s Haus of Future Hollywood Collection. They can draw on beautiful rich chocolates from the Haus of Whiskey Collection for the Dec. 30 Enigma concert, come prepared to party courtesy of Haus of Metalhead or choose from any of the nine collections for Jazz & Piano on NYE, including Haus of Chained Ballerina.
If they were especially good Little Monsters this year, she may provide a Haus Holiday Pop-up (as she did in L.A. on Dec. 4), within close proximity to Park Theater. The new beauty products enter the market in the wake of her fragrances, Lady Gaga Fame and Eau de Gaga. Gaga, via Twitter, says her cosmetics were inspired by the identity she created for herself when she worked as a burlesque dancer on New York’s lower east side, rather than the crazy colors many would expect.
Gaga fans always expect the unexpected though, as when she joined singer/trumpeter Brian Newman during his June 2 After Dark late-night lounge session at NoMad Restaurant. After wrapping her Jazz & Piano show, Gaga headed to NoMad Hotel inside Park MGM for 90 more minutes of performance, singing songs from her Cheek to Cheek album with Tony Bennett as well as renditions of “Call Me Irresponsible,” “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” and “Fly Me to the Moon.”
She was back with Newman for a gig in November, days after she had to cancel an Enigma date due to a battle with bronchitis and sinusitis. Newman, Cheek to Cheek sessions bandleader, is booked again at NoMad Restaurant Dec. 28-31, so it’s likely Gaga will get her Nina Simone on for one of those dates. Then it’s on to reign over Las Vegas for the New Year’s Eve edition of Jazz & Piano, which is likely to become a tradition in itself—if Gaga wants it that way.
Park Theater at Park MGM, 8 p.m. Dec. 28 & 30-31, starting at $77.90 plus tax and fee. 844.600.7275
