MGM bringing live entertainment back to Vegas casinos after eight months

Casino operator MGM Resorts is bringing live entertainment back to its Las Vegas casino properties, even as Nevada’s governor reminds residents that the only way to preserve the state’s long-term economy is avoiding “COVID fatigue.”

On Tuesday, MGM announced that seven live entertainment shows would return to three of its Vegas casinos starting November 6. The lineup includes David Copperfield’s Live The Impossible production at the MGM Grand, comedian Carrot Top at the Luxor Theater and the Thunder from Down Under pecs n’ sex revue at Excalibur’s Thunderland Showroom.

George Kliavkoff, MGM’s president of entertainment & sports, said eight months was long enough for entertainment to be absent from the Vegas strip. Kliavkoff said the relaunch of live entertainment was “an important first step” in Las Vegas reclaiming its title as the “Entertainment Capital of the World.”

Attendance will be capped at 250 guests per venue, with six feet of physical distancing between guests and 25 feet separating guests from performers (something the half-naked Aussies will likely appreciate after years of having their junk grabbed by juiced-up bachelorettes).