Bellagio’s Mayfair Supper Club is a masterstroke of mise en scène.
Everything in the room essentially competes for the eye. That aerialist hanging from the high ceiling. That impish trio of dancers, swathed and swaying in feathers and pearls. That alluring chanteuse onstage, her style as modish and striking as her polished tone. It’s all very cosmopolitan and chic, grandeur to the greatest degree.
As Mayfair swings into its third year, it’s raising the bar with an all-new production, featuring more tricks, more talent and more of the unexpected.
Jason Martinez as Fred Lowell
“With this refresh, this is really like Mayfair 2.0,” show director Dennis Jauch says. “As we’re coming out of COVID times, we’re now bringing the show back full steam.”
Mayfair 2.0 consists of an almost entirely new cast, led by remarkable singing duo Mae Montgomery (Claire Soulier) and Fred Lowell (Jason Martinez). Both characters are based on classic Hollywood greats, Mae West and Fred Astaire. They share a palpable chemistry onstage, thanks in part to a witty new script written by New York playwright Adam North.
Mayfair’s dance numbers (which happen often and sometimes at your booth) were also central to the supper club’s refresh. The team auditioned more than 350 international dancers in Europe and hand-picked a new ensemble for the production.
“We had three choreographers come in,” Jauch says. “We had Dean Lee coming in from London, who was Janet Jackson’s choreographer. He’s a mastermind, and he choreographed six new pieces for us. We have Keo Motsepe from Dancing With the Stars, who came in and did a new Latin medley for us.
“The third choreographer is Shannon Mather [of So You Think You Can Dance], a fantastic contemporary choreographer.”
This isn’t the first time the nearly three-year-old dining and nightlife venue has shaken things up. In October 2021, the club hosted the sexy cabaret show Lío Ibiza for a two-week production. “We get bored easily,” says show director Kim Willecke, a co-founder of No Ceilings Entertainment with Jauch and Phil Shaw. “To keep the show the same way for a long period of time, I don’t think that’s what we want to do. … We also want our customers to come back and do the show again.”
Willecke says the creative team is eager to try new things in a post-COVID atmosphere. You’ll see more entertainers sidling up to tables and more dancers playing with diners offstage.
“We wanted to bring the show back into the audience,” he says. “It’s not a traditional show that’s just going to live up on the stage. It’s really surrounding the audience.”
Through all the changes and updates, the essence of what makes Mayfair so special remains.
The evening’s entertainment still progresses through eras, from Harlem jazz dens to Broadway-tier stage productions to ’70s disco dance parties. The classic covers of modern tunes— including a feisty, country edition of “Daddy Lessons” from Beyoncé’s Lemonade—still electrify the senses. And the drinks are still strong enough to make you question how many it’ll take to get you into the intermission conga line (spoiler: not many).
Mayfair opened right before one of the darkest times in our city’s history. But Willecke says the learning curve has only helped make the show better, and fuel a simple but important passion—“to keep evolving this baby.”
MAYFAIR SUPPER CLUB Bellagio, 702-693-8876, themayfairlv.com. Sunday-Thursday, 5-10 p.m.; Friday & Saturday, 5 p.m.-1 a.m.
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