Distinct characters drive the experience at the Atomic Saloon. That’s not always the case when it comes to the different variety shows presented up and down the Las Vegas Strip. Every stage production gives you something memorable and contains at least one performance that will stick with you for a long time. But after you catch Atomic Saloon Show, you’ll remember their names as well as what they did and how they did it, and how their performance made you laugh or cheer.
It starts with the saloon’s rough-and-rowdy proprietor, Boozy Skunkton. She’s definitely calling the shots at this Wild West outpost, constantly wrangling and regulating her indifferent employees while fending off outlaws and offering her finest hospitality to VIP clientele, but it’s easy to see Boozy wishes she could run a tighter ship. As the show goes on, you start to notice she’s more than the madame of the house; she’s a versatile performer who can do just about anything the other inhabitants of the saloon can do. Deep down, Boozy just wants to be loved. She’s as vulnerable as she is hilarious.
You’ll also spend time with the saloon’s resident singing cowboy, Blue Jackson. This crooner opens the show and gives the audience its first taste of the silly and sultry entertainment yet to come. Whether he’s strumming his guitar, dueting with Boozy or showing off a bit in Holstein-print chaps, Blue is game for anything. And he wants you to be up for fun as well.
Most members of Atomic Saloon Show cast will easily elicit laughter, but some are capable of inspiring awe and admiration. Jean-Louis appears to be the saloon’s mild-mannered handyman, someone to take care of the little things that pop up at this beleaguered operation and a suitor to the equally adorable Sweet Cheeks. But when he gets his time to shine, he confidently reveals an unbelievable physique as well as aerial acrobatics skills that defy descriptions. We don’t remember anyone like Jean-Louis in those old westerns we used to watch.
Every player in Atomic Saloon Show gets the spotlight at one point or another, a genius construction from the circus-inspired theatrical company Spiegelworld that also brought Absinthe and Opium to the Las Vegas Strip. Spiegelworld’s impact on the Vegas entertainment scene over the last decade has been so significant, Caesars Entertainment recently announced a new partnership with the company to create three new experiences in Las Vegas, Atlantic City and New Orleans in the coming years.
Simply put, these creatives know what they’re doing, and that’s how to put on a great show—how to keep things moving, how to be funny and sexy at the same time, how to craft compelling characters. It’s all in one night’s work at the Atomic Saloon.
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