Spiegelworld founder Ross Mollison, an able talent scout and recruiter, found Massey to serve as a multifaceted performer in his Vegas-based family. “Then it was like this 100-meter sprint through the whole show.” “I felt so much like everyone has gone though this bizarre time, and now there is some positive in this world that has been negative, and downright awful for everybody,” Massey said. ![]() That rush started when Colin Cahill, as the satin-clad saloon cowpoke Blue Jackson, called Boozy Skunkton’s name. We’d been ripped apart from each other, and it is a rush to be back with them.” “I was back in the saloon, being with my mates. “It’s honestly a cliche, but it did feel like being home, being on that stage,” she said. But she experienced a different sort of kinship when she was onstage in that return rehearsal. Massey, originally from England, said she’d felt homesick throughout COVID. “I do not know what it’s like to have an adrenaline rush like that. “I’m still buzzing,” Massey said in a phone chat this week. That buoyancy continued through Wednesday’s relaunch. She was nearly bouncing off the walls, or at least down the Atomic Saloon stairs, when the show returned for a friends-and-family performance Sunday. The comically brilliant Massey returns as brothel proprietor, setting herself ablaze in one of the show’s inspired moments. The Wild West farce is finally back for its long-awaited relaunch at The Venetian’s Grand Canal Shoppes. “Blazing Saddles,” the Mel Brooks film classic that “Atomic Saloon Show” was favorably compared to in the days before COVID. ![]() Later, it’s “We do feel like we’re mavericks, pioneers who are blazing the trial.” “We’re really ready to jump back in the saddle,” she says one moment. (John Katsilometes/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Massey can’t seem to shake the incidental reference to a film classic. Sunday is the day “Atomic” opens for previews.Boozy Skunkton (Petra Massey) and Blue Jackson (Colin Cahill) perform a scene from "Atomic Saloon Show" at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on Aug. We miss ya, baby.”įor clarification, Boozy Skunkton is a lead character in “Atomic.” The Temple is the revered central installation at Burning Man.”Playa” is the dried-up land commonly found in a desert setting. I’ll be there from this Sunday, throwing down a Krug or 10 in his honor. Speaking of which, I have just funded an old scruff of mine, Boozy Skunkton, to open a new show called ‘Atomic.’ In return, her saloon will feature a ‘lifestyle of the rich and famous’ bar named Robin’s Nest. But I managed to scrawl the name of my buddy Robin Leach in the Temple. Gaz e-mailed these plans, saying, “Just back from Burning Man, and the Gaz Silver Burner is gonna need two new jets it is so full o’ playa (stuff). The character says he just returned from Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert (a host of Spiegelworld reps and artists put on a show in a tent at the event, under the Falzone Family Circus brand). Word of Robin’s Nest arrived Tuesday through the Gazillionaire, the fictional producer of “Absinthe” who frequently conveys official Spiegelworld news. ![]() The show has previewed to great response at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. That is the renovated theater hosting “Atomic Saloon Show,” which joins “Absinthe” and “Opium” at the Cosmopolitan as Spiegelworld production shows on the Strip. Robin’s Nest is the name, a new hangout at Atomic Saloon at The Venetian’s Grand Canal Shoppes. So it is fitting that Gaz is honoring the late celeb journalist in the incoming “Atomic Saloon Show,” in a way Leach surely would have appreciated: With a fancy VIP bar. These gentlemen knew how to have a good time. Robin Leach was known to hang with the Gazillionaire of “Absinthe” fame.
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