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Producers of Las Vegas hit ‘Absinthe’ bring a ‘DiscoShow’ to the Linq Hotel

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A Spiegelworld performer takes a swing at the Imperial Palace sportsbook at the Linq, soon to be reborn as DiscoShow‘s “Glitterloft.”
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Spiegelworld, the Vegas-based company behind Absinthe, Atomic Saloon Show, OPM and the “circus town” of Nipton, California, is preparing to drop the needle on DiscoShow, an immersive production whose creative team includes Tony-nominated director and choreographer Steven Hoggett.

Spiegelworld “impresario extraordinaire” Ross Mollison officially announced the show’s summer 2024 debut at a ceremony inside the long-defunct Imperial Palace sportsbook at the Linq Hotel, soon to be transformed into DiscoShow’s “Glitterloft.”

The start of demolition at the Linq was poetically themed to Disco Demolition Night, a July 1979 rally organized by Chicago shock jock Steve Dahl. Dahl’s fans brought thousands of records—many of which weren’t disco records, but straightforward R&B—to a White Sox doubleheader, and Dahl, dressed in military fatigues, blew them up on the field, sparking a riot.

Disco Demolition Night was a transparently racist and homophobic event, and Spiegelworld announced its intent to refute it in the best way—with even more disco music, dance and glitz.

“Over 40 years ago, conservative factions of the sporting world swung baseball bats at disco,” Mollison said, before swinging a sledgehammer into the wall of the sportsbook. “Today, disco is fighting back.”

Set in a stylishly appointed venue that encompasses a live entertainment space, multiple bars and a diner, DiscoShow will be a “fantastic celebration of [disco’s] joyfully defiant legacy,” Mollison said, hustling Vegas audiences back to the era when disco roamed wild and free. Guests will be invited to mix—and, naturally, boogie down—with the show’s characters, witnessing their stories up close.

DiscoShow is part of an aggressive expansion by Spiegelworld that includes new productions at Caesars properties in New Orleans and Atlantic City, in addition to whatever the company is cooking up in Nipton.

Tickets for DiscoShow will go on sale later this year at spiegelworld.com/discoshow.

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