The Rio Masquerade Show In The Sky
October 23, 2008
Earlier this year, the Rio closed its “Masquerade Show In The Sky” in order to “upgrade it” … so to speak.
I see the Rio show about once a month, so I was kind of bummed that it would be closed for some time.
To put it into perspective, this was the “old” Rio show. The one that supposedly wasn’t sexy.
The Rio promised that the new show would be more “adult oriented” and “more sexy” … and I figured that it would be worth it.
The show has re-opened, and I recently went back to see this new and “sexier” show, and do you want to know how it was?
Well, take a look. This is the “new, improved, sexier, naughtier” show.
Other than the addition of another dude, do you see much difference?
Because that’s all I see … more guys.
Wang here, wang there, wang everywhere.
There were more wangs than a Chinese province. More wangs than an 70’s computer show, more wangs than … you get the point.
Everybody Wang Chung tonight. (sorry, I had to get one more in)
I think they only added one dude, but it seemed like more.
As if adding half of the world fraternity population to our local pools wasn’t bad enough, some executives at Harrah’s sat around a board room table until one of them apparently exclaimed “I know what will bring people back … more dick!”
DAMMIT!
The only thing I can think of is that Vegas is now turning to the gay community to bail us out, because let’s face it … gay people have money.
I still remember when you could actually rent an apartment in Greenwich Village, and San Francisco isn’t the most expensive city in the nation for no reason.
They even imported dick from other shows. One of the main male dancers is the lead dancer in “Fashionistas”.
I was promised a show where the women would be “more revealing”, but I just don’t see it. I was expecting thongs, g-strings, or even some peek-a-boo toplessness … but there really wasn’t that much more female skin. There may have actually been less.
I think the simulated sex scenes are the main way they upped the “naughty” factor. I guess it is more “suggestive” and “risque’” in content, music, and choreography … but there is not much more skin.
After the show, the Chippendales, the CHIPPEN-FREAKIN-DALES, came out to mingle with the crowd and pose for pictures.
If there was an outside chance that you weren’t already wanged out … they brought out even more scantily clad dudes after the show.
They did not trot out a single scantily-clad woman after the show.
Now, I am not trying to be too harsh on the show. It is still entertaining, and I’m sure people will dig it.
There were men in the previous show … I was just hoping they would phase them out instead of adding an extra male.
The dancers are great, they are very skilled, and they are very enthusiastic. There is certainly no lack of talent on the part of the performers. They are all exceptional.
Much respect goes to the actual cast.
There are still many smoking hot females in the production, and I did my best to focus on them in the video.
If you can ignore the sausage, wood can be achieved.
I think they just raised my expectations a bit too much. They closed the show in April to “overhaul” it, and now that it has re-opened, I just see very little difference. I didn’t realize that the promise of “more skin” implied more male skin.
I guess I should have asked.
Most people will probably watch the show and think I am overreacting to the cucumber. I don’t mean to blow it out of proportion (no pun intended). I was just eagerly anticipating a “Stripper” type of Rio show … because frankly, that was the implication made to me … “a more adult show“.
I simply made my way to the front of the stage, and was preparing to make an ice cream sundae in my shorts, only to have ejaculous interruptus occur.
It’s like renting a lesbian porno from the video store, popping it into the DVD player, and seeing Ron Jeremy walk in and join the action right as the hot chicks are getting ready to start dining at the bearded clam.
You’d have a fit, and rightfully so.
If you’re not expecting to see the veined lizard, it can be quite disconcerting.
Such was my mindset at the “new” show.
Anyway, I am glad the show is back. It is part of what made the Rio … The Rio, and people will still come to watch it. Plenty of people excitedly went up to the stage at the beginning of the show.
It is still definitely worth the trip off-strip to check out.
The show runs Thursday through Sunday, every hour on the hour from 7pm to midnight. Another change they made is that the show is now dark Monday through Wednesday.
I miss the “Carnival” theme of the really old show (circa 2003), which matched the theme of the Rio Hotel itself. It got less “Carnival” over the years, and by the end of the initial run, the theme was mostly phased out in favor of more general dance music.
I actually remember when they had Latin dance music and Brazilian carnival costumes a few years ago. That was my favorite era of the show.
There also seems to be a little less “In The Sky” with this new show. They still have people on the ceiling floats, but there seemed to be fewer floats, and fewer people on the them.
In all honesty, this “new” show isn’t that different from the old show at all. Many people who aren’t aware that the show has closed and re-opened probably won’t even recognize that it has changed. It seems less like an overhaul, and more like a minor music and choreography update.
Enough about my opinion.
Is the new Rio Show better or worse than the original?
Or is it pretty much the same?
That is something that you have to judge for yourself.
Watch the two videos above and make your own decision.
Written by Aaron on October 24, 2008 at 3:28 am
Rex,
I enjoyed the old Rio show. It sometimes feels like in their attempt to move forward Vegas is moving away from where they need to go.
Written by Bill on October 24, 2008 at 6:26 am
The last thing they need at the Rio is more dick. The old show was better.
Written by dustin on October 24, 2008 at 7:55 am
the rio scares me, I saw the carnival one and it just made me uncomfortable. That and their was only 30 people in the entire casino. The Rio is full of white middle age men and Asians wondering why there is so many middle aged men.