The evening of March 28, 2009, brought to end the famous showgirl production after a 49-year run. We’ll step into the box, as it were, for some favorite moments from a resort facing the possibility of retirement:

Say this for these prospective partners, both were great in 1989. The hotel, which opened in 1957, would be razed for the A’s. have agreed to build a $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat baseball stadium on the Trop site. Such “Folies” memories, and those of many other Tropicana entertainment adventures, resurfaced this week as the Athletics and Bally’s Corp. As we say, that makes him a “pre-native” as a Vegas entertainment professional. Those were the days, 1968 in fact, as Bonnie was indeed a few weeks pregnant with David when she closed her time with “Folies” at the Tropicana. “I was being thrown around like a rag doll in ‘Folies,’ the guys were throwing me over their heads.” “And I say, ‘That’s probably from when I was jumping up and down when I was pregnant with you in ‘Folies Bergere,’ ” says Saxe, mother of Las Vegas producer David Saxe, Melinda “The First Lady of Magic” Saxe and longtime Vegas dancer Suzanne Saxe-Picozzi. Once in a while, Bonnie Saxe says, her son has “one of his moments.” 28, 2009 at The Tropicana Hotel and Casino. 'Dancing with the Stars' Cheryl Burke performs with Wayne Newton during the grand opening of his new Las Vegas show, Once Before I Go, Wednesday, Oct.

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