Bette Midler’s Las Vegas Tour: Summary & Reviews

Delighting fans with Bette Midler tickets night after night, the Divine Miss M is back & better than ever in Las Vegas!

Bette Midler Tour: About the Show
When Bette Midler inked a lucrative deal to perform five shows a week for the next two years inside Caesars Palace Colosseum, Bette Midler tickets became all the rage! After the departure of Celine Dion, Bette Midler was more than happy to follow in the Canadian songstress’ illustrious footsteps starting in February 2008. However, Bette Midler tickets and the Divine Miss M would deliver an entirely different experience than Celine Dion’s A New Day Las Vegas show.

Bette Midler tickets for the variety show “The Showgirl Must Go On” would treat audiences to plenty of twists, turns, comedy, show tunes, and greatest hits from the Divine Miss M herself. Fans with Bette Midler tickets won’t be able to take their eyes off of Bette Midler as she takes center stage – a simply decorated stage at that flanked by a 13-piece band and back-up singers and dancers galore. With Bette Midler tickets, guests will enjoy Bette Midler’s classic wit, skits, and powerhouse voice.

Bette Midler Tour: Set List
During “The Showgirl Must Go On,” Bette Midler delights and dazzles fans with Bette Midler tickets when she belts out her greatest hits. Listed below are some (but not nearly all) of the songs that Bette Midler tickets will feature during Bette Midler’s 90-minute Las Vegas show inside Caesars Palace Colosseum:

• “The Showgirl Must Go On”
• “Wind Beneath My Wings”
• “From a Distance”
• “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”
• “In the Mood”
• “The Rose”
• “Do You Want to Dance”
• “When a Man Loves a Woman”
• “My Kind of Town”
• “Hello in There”
• “Glory of Love”
• “Pretty Legs and Big Knockers”
• Medley: “Viva Las Vegas,” “Luck Be a Lady,” “Blue Hawaii,” and “My Way”

Bette Midler Tour: Reviews
Bette Midler tickets continue to fly out of the box office and the positive reviews keep rolling in. It’s official -- critics and fans with Bette Midler tickets agree that Bette Midler’s “The Showgirl Must Go On” is a smash hit! Here is what some critics have to say about Bette Midler’s Las Vegas show:

Charles Isherwood, New York Times:

• “Ms. Midler has lost little of the verve, bawdiness and originality that first captivated gay audiences back in the early 1970’s.”
• “That hip-wiggling strut — how many entertainers can be said to have a trademark walk, by the way? — is every bit as manic, even if the heels are a tad lower.”
• “[Bette Midler] sings with a polish — and in a few cases, an emotional intensity — that belies the passing of the years and the many occasions on which she has been called upon to perform them before. “
• “[…] when the encore arrives — the inexorable, the inevitable, dare I say the infernal “Wind Beneath My Wings” — Ms. Midler hits all the notes with breath to spare.”
• “That Ms. Midler is capable of instantly warming up a room this daunting, and filling a stage this forbidding, is a testament to her consummate skills as an entertainer.”
• “Like all great showgirls, she may wear sequins like a second skin, but the woman underneath is all flesh and blood, humor and heart.”

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Mike Weatherford, Las Vegas Review Journal:

• “Still timeless, still divine […].”
• “And it will surprise no one, or at least it shouldn't, that the most touching moment is Midler sitting on the stage steps and strumming a ukulele to ‘The Glory Of Love.’”
• “Perhaps wisely, considering the show follows Celine Dion's "A New Day," there's not much production to distract from Midler's serious singing.”
• “All Midler seems to need is time to be herself, or at least the persona she's created for herself. And that's never been much of a problem.”

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Richard Corliss, Time:

• "The real Bette Midler, chantootsie extraordinaire, got the crowd to sing along with "The Rose" while waving their cell phones like cigarette lighters at a '60s concert.”
• “Still, she's at her best not so much in the pop ballads that gave her mid-career a Top 40 lift, as in a plaintive ballad like John Prine's "Hello in There," or her rave-up of "When a Man Loves a Woman." They're terrific songs, and prove the lady's still got the lung power.”
• “But The Showgirl Must Go On displays the sexy sexagenarian at the top of her form.”
• “There's simply no one who can match Midler as a full-service mesmerizer — all-singing, all-talking, all heart and soul.”
• “Here's a sure thing for high rollers: Go to Vegas, and bet on Bette.”

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