Close User Name Password
Login Register
Hotel stories straight to your inbox:

Tags: / / /

Even Taxi Drivers Are Hating on Criss Angel's "Believe"

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 3900 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], Las Vegas, NV, United States, 89119
December 3, 2008 at 9:35 AM | by Jenna | 3 Comments

We're almost starting to feel bad about giving Criss Angel's Cirque du Soleil show at the Luxor, "Believe", so much crap. The show's clearly got issues — and when we read the first line of an Richard Abowitz's LA Times story this morning, we were feeling like the meanest kids on the playground: he introduced the show as "roundly trashed by critics," (we covered that), "thoroughly mocked on the Web," (us again!), "and even had its celebrity opening ridiculed" (yup, we did that too).

But we said we almost felt bad. We've been quiet about the show since we covered all the absolutely brutal reviews of the show and its lackluster opening, and, on the bright side, Cirque du Soleil did claim that "Believe" had sold a whopping $5 million in pre-sale tickets.

Unfortunately, we don't think they've been selling any more since then. Apparenlty, even the Vegas taxi drivers are badmouthing the show. From the LAT story:

Today, in a front-page story, the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Doug Elfman talked to 16 taxi drivers about, among other things, shows in Vegas. He did not ask about any specific shows, but he reports the hostility to Angel's show was clear: "A handful of the 16 drivers say a lot of riders claim they get turned off by 'Believe,' and quite a few walk out." As I noted, this is buzz that will kill a show in Vegas.

Interestingly, the folks behind the show are not offering discounts on tickets or working on getting bodies in seats with comps and such. But as LAT's Abowitz points out, the show is "for now, passing the one test in Vegas that truly matters: selling tickets. But how long can that last into a 10-year contract in the total absence of anything positive in terms of the reactions from audience and critics?"

Yeah. If you're asking us, the show's days are numbered — and it isn't going to be pretty.

[Photo: Meredith Caron / Cirque du Soleil via LAT]

3 Comments

Post a Comment

Return to » Even Taxi Drivers Are Hating on Criss Angel's "Believe"

  1. Yen woo ping

    HotelChatter Member

    don't feel bad

    No use in feeling bad.  With the way he treats his fans and the way his handlers treat his fans, he deserves it.
    December 4, 2008 at 3:19 AM
    #Permalink

  1. VegasTaxiDriverDotCom

    HotelChatter Member

    They say "horrible"

    I have never heard so many bad comments about a show as I have about "Criss Angel Believe." The word "horrible" is the most used. I always ask people if they went to a show and how they liked it. The bad reviews are about 80%.
    December 29, 2008 at 9:12 PM
    #Permalink

  1. Vicky Wilson

    HotelChatter Member

    utter

    First of all, this 1 star is actually 1 star too many but unfortunately there is no 0 option.

    Please please please do not waste your money on this show. It's awful, a waste of time and to be quite honest an absolute joke. If I had a choice of having to travel 10 hours on a plane or watch an hour of that utter crap again, I'd chose the plane in a heartbeat!

    We want our money back and we're actually going to proceed with this. Has anybody managed to do this? We complained after the show at the box office, nothing. We complained to the Luxor front desk manager and the look on his face told a thousand other complaints but again, nothing.

    I'm more pissed off that we lost 2 hour of our holiday in VEGAS than the money so I think a full refund is the very least they could do.

    It annoys me, that egotistical, pretentious self righteous misogynistic moron is conning people out of their hard earned money (which I would have rather lost on red in one hit) and just gets away with it.

    If you look at poster 'Believe' the LIE section of the word is IN BOLD and the rest of the letters are distressed. He's taking everyone for a MUG! HE MUST BE STOPPED!!!

    and I think, the most horrific of all is him announcing his father is dead then showing us a photo of him as a kid with this dad. That's sickening and totally inappropriate, using his dad to get everyone to give him sympathy. What a prick.

    It wouldn't suprise me, if like his 'fans' at the beginning of the show with that stupid I love Criss banner (which his embarrassingly made himself, ew, see other reviews) If the dead dad show was also a complete lie.

    I hope this show ruins him and he's serving me my bacon and egg mc muffin breakfast in one the casinos next time I go there.

    What a utter twat.

    Die Criss Die

    August 9, 2009 at 1:40 PM
    #Permalink

Return to » Even Taxi Drivers Are Hating on Criss Angel's "Believe"

Leave a Comment

Not yet a member? Click here to become a member.

Already a member? Log in below:

Comment with your Facebook account.