LowLife Staff Reviews

"Not Much Fun"

From Joe Brown, reviewer from the Las Vegas Sun:

"No one wants to be a big meanie about a show featuring an admirable, adorable bunch of older gals. But it has to be said: The 1.5 million worldwide members of the fast-growing, fun-loving sorority for women 50 and older are a juicy, underserved target market, urged to pay cash money (plus a two-drink minimum) for what amounts to a live infomercial for the Red Hat Society. Occasionally naughty, mostly cloying and saccharine, the show, at 75 minutes, seemed to stretch out like, well, half a lifetime.

With apparent hopes of imitating the Strip success of “Menopause the Musical” (hitting its second-year mark at the Las Vegas Hilton), “Hats!” is cheery in a cheerleader-y way, an unevenly stitched together (and still somewhat under-rehearsed) patchwork of songs and skits about a “49.999”-year-old woman as she struggles against embracing her age."

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