14th December 2006

I Saw “Bite” Last Night

posted in Las Vegas |

Ticket to Bite at the Stratosphere

Classic Rock, Vampires, and topless women for an hour and 10 minutes. Beats the hell out of two hands of $25 blackjack.

The house lights dim, the house speakers start playing Guns N’ Roses “Welcome to the Jungle”, the curtain goes up, and smoke fills the stage. A few moments later, about 8 scantily-clad “vampire women” fill the stage and start dancing to the music”.

And this is pretty much what happens for the next hour, albiet to different songs (more GNR, Aerosmith, Led Zepplin, etc).

There is no dialog in this show, and there is no goofy lipsyncing in this show. Which is actually a pretty good thing. Nobody pretends to sing.

After about 15 minutes of cavorting, the “Lord Vampire” comes out, and we know … through context, that he is looking for the next member for his coven.

The vampire girls go out into the audience at this point, and pick about 5 people at “random”. I was convinced, as was everyone at my table, that these people really were chosen at random. They did a good acting job of pretending like they didn’t want to go on stage, and acted embarrassed once they got up there.

But then, as the show progressed, and these “audience members” were bitten and procured superpowers … we all realized that we had been had. The folks in the audience were actually cast members, disguised as well … regular people.

A couple of these folks were turned into acrobats which did some pretty cool stunts, one guy was turned into a singer, and actually sang very well, and the pretty lady that he brought up would be turned into the new “Queen of the Night” (and we got to see her boobs). There were actually audible gasps from the audience when the Lord Vampire went up to this “volunteer” and ripped her clothes off. It took some people longer than others to get that they were shills. I’m not totally convinced that everyone in the audience eventually came to this conclusion at all.

In between these conversion of regular people to vampires, the coven of chicks would change costumes, and cavort around in very little clothing. This was, of course, very cool.

I had possibly the best seat in the house, right next to the runway, and when they were shaking their tits and ass, they were basically doing it right in my face.

Nice.

Anyway, the Lord Vampire did a couple of magic tricks where he changed a skeleton into a women and made women pop out of a piano. These were cool tricks. Not Lance Burton shit, but cool nonetheless. And correct me if I am wrong, but Lance doesn’t make women appear without tops. Master Magician my ass.

There was also some cool girl-on-girl vibes, as the women were very grabby and touchy with each other.

Shaaaaaa-winnnnngggg!!!!

80% of the show is simply topless women dancing to classic rock, with the remaining 20% being acrobatics and magic tricks.

There was a plot, and they actually pulled it off quite well considering that nobody in the cast spoke. The Lord Vampire wanted a new coven woman, he picked a seemingly timid woman out of the audience, and throughout the course of this show the volunteer finally became the main ho’ in the coven.

And he bestowed special powers on a couple other people.

Of course it was silly, but it worked for me.

Then again, assuming I have really close seats, 3 topless women reading from the dictionary works for me.

The theater was actually quite nice (nicer than the Crazy Girls and La Femme Theaters, IMHO), and the women do a meet and greet in the lobby after the show. I had my picture taken with the coven, although they had put their tops back on before coming out.

Dammit.

The only thing that surprised me a bit was the length of the show, clocking in at just barely over one hour. I thought it would run a little longer, but this show gets to the point without any intermissions, so I suppose it makes sense. The other T&A shows have a magician or comedian in the middle that make the show SEEM longer, but really only has about as much quality T&A as this show.

This show is under $50, and for that price, I highly recommend it. You know what you are getting. Topless girls with fangs. And they are very pretty topless girls with fangs. Only one of them was obviously silicone enhanced, and the rest looked natural. Perfect apple-shaped butts were possessed by all of the women, and they were not shy about thrusting them out toward the audience.

With this show, however, I do think location is very important. The back of the theater is kind of far from the stage, and I don’t think I would have enjoyed it nearly as much from anywhere other than the VIP section. By all means, fork over the extra $10 to get the “premium seating” option.

Entertaining, good value, standard Las Vegas T&A show with better music.

Everyone seemed to have enjoyed the show. I know I did.

There are a few photos here, scroll to the bottom of the review and click on thumbnails to view full sized photos.