"BestOfVegas"
11/16/07 -see other reviews-
 Attitude - 4 Eye Candy - 2 Price - 3
"Crammed, Stuffed, Bulging with Hits"
From Joe Brown, Las Vegas Sun
"Manilow show gets update, and this time it’s ‘ultimate’"
"The latest edition of Barry Manilow’s show at the Las Vegas Hilton is called "Ultimate Manilow: The Hits." And true to its title, it’s crammed, stuffed, bulging with hits.
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Emerging from an M-shaped door, backlighted in a cloud of fog (sort of like the alien in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”), Manilow begins the first of what seem like dozens of hits — “It’s a Miracle” dovetails with “Daybreak,” “Weekend in New England” and on and on. He’s also restored a longtime favorite part of the show, a romp through the commercial jingles he penned before pop stardom, and he Manilizes a string of hits from decades past, part of his series of successful "Greatest Songs" albums.
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Manilow at 65 is a tireless performer. Relentless, even. He hits the notes and holds them, cheerily joshes himself and the fans, bops around the stage like a Barryonette. It was rumored that Manilow had his hips replaced a few years ago, but it seems more likely he has become entirely cyborg, because he whips through the show with barely a break for breath."
Read entire review here
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Mike Weatherford, a reviewer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal takes another look at Barry Manilow, who performs off and on at the Hilton.
"For Better or Worse, A Throwback"
"When Barry Manilow set up shop at the Las Vegas Hilton in early 2005, I wrote, "For better or worse, it feels like a show from a veteran Las Vegas entertainer that could have been there a long time already."
The show has changed since then, and now I've got to take it one step further: Manilow could have performed this entire act when he was across Paradise Road at the Riviera in April 1981.
Manilow has become even more the old-Vegas showman than he was only a couple of years ago. "Music & Passion" has less of a biographical thread than when it debuted. Now it's a complete throwback to the old showroom days; as long as you had a hit or two under your name to lure them through the door, it didn't matter what else you sang as long as you were entertaining."
Weatherford's complete Manilow review
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