If I could turn back time ...

If I Could Turn Back Time ……(I’d probably look like Cher)

Rested and refreshed and we’re ready to go…

Refuel on pizza at The Mirage’s California Kitchen and head for Caesar’s for our date with the Queen of Plastic Fantastic.

We’d loved Elton John last year and now we’re full of anticipation for the spectacular to come…

The lights dim, and on a big, big screen a swirling vortex of planets and stars. It feels like you are rushing headlong into infinity.

The Bee Gees blast out ‘You Should be Dancing’…maybe, - but I want to see Cher first...

And then we do …as a huge golden Aztec throne floats out over the audience bearing the Diva herself – her cello deep tones wrapped throatily around U2 ‘s ‘Still haven’t found what I’m looking for…’
(One critc said she was probably referring to her wardrobe.)

It’s disco camp meets 60s retro – with a big dollop of Vegas. A riot of colour and sound.

All the hits, all the decades - reminding us just how long this lady’s been around.

Every song has a costume – and my! what costumes they are. Glitzy, glamorous, with lashings of frou frou. The Cher we’ve come to expect.

‘Believe’ merits a sheer black lacy bodystocking that leaves little to the imagination…
(‘Would you let your grandmother go out dressed like that?’ said E)

Even from our seats up high it’s extraordinary how good she looks. She’s 10 years older than me but has the body of someone 20 years younger…

Whenever she's off changing cosi – which is after every song – we are treated to cirque-style aerial acrobatics, her backing band and dancers, or clips from her life, movies and tv shows…

‘I Got You Babe’ - a tribute to Sonny.

And there they both are on the big screen, fresh faced from what seems like an age of innocence….

It's more like ‘I Got YouTube’ ….but it’s touching never the less…

There’s no denying - it’s one helluva glitzfest …but when Cher's done ….she’s done.

No encore…..no goodbye.

It felt like it was in her contract : “ I do 90 minutes …and that’s your lot……”

And given that she’s offstage for much of it – that 90 minutes sure goes by fast…

Did we enjoy it?

Well, yes we did ... we just wanted a little less costume concentration, – a little more action…

But, as E says, you have to see these people before they die ……

Or we do! …. I always reply….


* Up next ….TA Friends and Fountains …our second Meet n Greet …..