At Eyebrows, one of our favourite moments from The Simpsons occurs when Homer opens a kitchen cupboard and pulls out a jar with a label that states:
Peanuts and Gum!!
Together at Last!!
We were reminded of that sublime moment when we heard the news that All In: The Poker Musical is to receive its world debut at the Masquerade Theatre in the Rio All Suite Hotel, Las Vegas, on July 4th.
Created by Tim Molyneux, whose back catalogue includes work for Playboy, it promises a range of styles including pop, rock, blues, jazz and musical theatre, so presumably it won’t appeal to those people who like both country and western.
Phil Hellmuth’s ego has spared some time from its other media commitments and has agreed to be a character in the show, which will feature the final nine players at the main event of the WSOP.
Hellmuth, clearly taking the infamous direction of the producer who barked at a writer,
‘This is full of old clichés. Re-write it and find me some new clichés’
has said [this] ‘poker musical sings loudly that poker is for everyone and we are all in this special game and this world together.'
Tickets for what promises to be an unforgettable evening in Vegas start at a wise $29.95, and can be purchased at http://www.pokermusical.com/, a site that should consider a discreet mailing policy.
Prepare for the skeletons of Rodgers and Hammerstein to twitch to the poker musical’s bad beats.
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