Murray the Magician Says Tropicana Closure Hurts Las Vegas Entertainers

One of the crucial well-known on line casino resorts in Las Vegas is closing, and one in all its longtime headliners says it spells hassle for Sin Metropolis entertainers.

The Tropicana introduced this week it is shuttering in April, and can in the end be demolished to make means for a brand new baseball stadium being constructed for the Las Vegas Athletics, the MLB crew relocating from Oakland.

Murray The Magician, who has a residency on the Tropicana, tells TMZ … the approaching closure may create main issues for performers who’ve been doing their factor on the property.

Because the ‘AGT’ alum explains, the Las Vegas Strip is hypercompetitive for entertainers — there are greater than 70 exhibits an evening on the two.5-mile stretch, with solely a lot wealth to go round … and the Tropicana closing eliminates 2 venues.

So, some acts are going to be unnoticed within the chilly.

There is a historic layer to this too … the Tropicana’s been a launching pad for therefore many Vegas performers, and Murray says the property modified the way in which of us are entertained in Sin Metropolis.

Siegfried and Roy acquired their begin on the Tropicana, and Murray says with out them there can be no Cirque du Soleil. The Tropicana additionally hosted the Folies Bergere for almost half a century, and it is the place Gladys Knight and Wayne Newton as soon as had residencies.

Murray does his present on the Chuckle Manufacturing facility on the Tropicana, and the property additionally hosts tribute exhibits for Michael Jackson and Prince.

For what it is price, there are reviews the “MJ Live” and “Purple Reign” tribute exhibits are relocating to new spots in Vegas — and, likewise, Murray says he is sticking with the Chuckle Manufacturing facility, which is ending a deal to maneuver on the Strip.