Word: aladdin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which jumped as high as $350,000 a week during the palmy '70s, are quietly being renegotiated downward. Many casinos, in both Las Vegas and Atlantic City, have discovered that they do not need megatalent at all. "Tell me," asks John Jenkins, former co-owner of Vegas' Aladdin, "which of these lousy monkeys is worth $300,000 a week...
...Star salaries just went crazy," says Edward Torres, owner of the Aladdin, which made the switch to revues in March. "The performers have absolutely no regard for the casino operator. People don't want to pay $40 or $50 a ticket to see them." Indeed, after Labor Day, only three Vegas casinos, Caesars Palace, the MGM Grand and the Riviera, plan to book headliners, less than half the number often years...
...when Engelbert Humperdinck appeared there over the Fourth of July weekend, the casino set all-time records. Says Norton: "We've basically eliminated most of the performers who don't cover their own costs." No casino is likely to repeat the mistake of the Aladdin Hotel, which put Donnie and Marie Osmond into its Baghdad Room last summer. "Their crowds drank Cokes and left," says one Vegas marketing analyst...
Radcliffe Crew Uncle Vanya-- Loeb Aladdin-- Agassiz Student Assembly Intramurals...
Radcliffe Crew Uncle Vanya--Loeb Aladdin--Agassiz Student Assembly Intramurals...