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03 July 2006
Viva Las Vegas - Wayne
Newton
Wayne Newton is one of
the few headlining entertainers from the golden era of Las
Vegas who still perform nightly.
The veteran singer signed
one of the largest contracts in entertainment history with
the Stardust Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, which
calls for him to perform six shows a week, 40 weeks a years,
for the next ten years at the newly renamed Wayne Newton
Theater.
In a business that is, at
best, volatile, and success sometimes short lived, Wayne
Newton - aka 'Mr Las Vegas' - life has epitomised the
talent, glamour and energy that is Las Vegas.
By the age of 6, Newton
was already doing a daily radio show before school and
performed for President Truman when he was in the first
grade.
Throughout the rest of his
school years he appeared on a local TV show, and toward the
end of his junior year a Las Vegas booking agent saw the
show and took Wayne and his brother Jerry back for an
audition. For 46 weeks the Newton Brothers did six 'lounge
singer' shows between 5 and 11PM.
Several years later, when
offered the opportunity to open for a comic at one of Las
Vegas's 'big rooms' at the Flamingo Hilton, Newton asked if
he could headline instead. It was November, a very quiet
time for the town, so his request was granted. The night he
opened, the locals came out in droves. Newton subsequently
broke all the hotel's records, and has been synonymous with
Las Vegas ever since.
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