We had eaten those crappy Nathan’s Famous hotdogs as a late lunch and weren’t famished, but we knew we needed to eat something before the LOVE by Cirque du Soleil show or we would be drinking on an empty stomach. We dropped by Il Fornaio in New York New York again, this time for a couple of appetizers. I remember that they were good, but I don’t recall what exactly we had. Oh well.
We took a cab from our hotel down to the Mirage. We didn’t want to deal with either I-15 or Las Vegas Blvd during rush hour. When you walk in to the theater lobby you find usherettes dressed in their ‘60s-style dresses and English bobbie hats. You feel like you’ve fallen in to an Austin Powers movie. The seating for the show surrounds the stage - it is completely encircled by the audience. The performers can arrive on stage via several entrances between seats, up from the floor, and from the roof.
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