Dancing with the Stars Live Show in Las Vegas
Vogue posted about the Dancing with the Stars Live Las Vegas show previously, but we’re starting to get more and more details about the show. So, I thought I’d do a little update post. The show is starting with a 12 week run beginning Saturday, April 14 and you can see all the specific show dates and times on tickemaster. I love the idea of a permanent DWTS Las Vegas show even better than a Dancing with the Stars tour which they’ve done in the past.
Dancing with the Stars: Live in Las Vegas is being directed by Amy Tinkham and choreographed by Jason Gilkison (you might know him from So You Think You Can Dance). The show will run 80 minutes and will be at the Tropicana Las Vegas. I think the Tropicana Theater is a great place for the DWTS show in Las Vegas.
Dancing with the Stars alums that will be featured in the opening run, include Carson Kressley, Joey Fatone, Kyle Massey, Sabrina Bryan, Tia Carrere, Dmitry Chaplin and Lacey Schwimmer. They’ll also have a “Las Vegas Troupe” dancing with them in the show. From the pictures we’ve seen on Twitter and embedded below, we can see Iveta Lukosiute, Anya Garnis, Ryan DiLello, Jaymz Tuaileva, Armen Way, and Janette Manrera. We think Artem Chigvintsev and Pasha Kovalev might be in the troupe as well, but can’t quite tell from the picture. (Note: Props to Courtney for identifying many in the pictures) Quite a few past So You Think You Can Dance and Burn The Floor dancers in the troupe, but with Jason Gilkison involved it makes a lot of sense.
Tickets are on sale NOW and range from $40 – $89 plus tax and applicable fees. VIP packages are also available for $165 and include a top-price table seat on the floor, exclusive Dancing with the Stars: Live in Las Vegas merchandise and a post-show meet and greet and photo opportunity with the cast. Tickets are available on Ticketmaster.
The best news of all. This Friday I’ll be seeing the DWTS Las Vegas show! I’ll see if I can get some pictures and video from the show and possibly before or after.
Very excited for the finale, Kellie and Derek for the win! *crosses fingers*
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So awesome John. I can’t wait for your pics and video if you are able to get some! Have the best time!!!
It looks like Jaymz Tuaileva from season 2 of SYTYCD might be part of the troupe as well – I think the guy with the dark hair on the left in the bottom pic is him.
Courtney,
It looks a bit like him, but I think the cut of his face is a little different. Time to pull up my old SYTYCD Twitter list and see if I can find out…or I could just ask the show to send me a list of the troupe;-)
Yep, it’s Jaymz – he was tweeting (@JaymzTuaileva) about singing karaoke with Kyle, Lacey, & Joey the other night at House of Blues
Also noticed that he RT’d one of Ryan DiLello’s tweets about hanging out with the cast, and we have another name: Armen Way, who apparently is an instructor at Karina’s studio.
Nice work Courtney. I updated the post. That will be interesting since I don’t think Jaymz was a ballroom dancer. Isn’t he contemporary? Although, he did do ballroom on SYTYCD. Janette is a salsa dancer at least which is closer.
I think Jaymz is a contemporary dancer, but he has done ballroom before too. I know he danced at the DelGrosso studio and it looks like he does have some results in ballroom competitions. I also remember him doing a paso doble solo and Nigel was being a dick about it since he considered him a contemporary dancer and didn’t understand why he did a ballroom solo.
Steve,
That’s right. I forgot about that Paso and Nigel ripping him for it. It will be fun to see him perform.
Carson must be in heaven. Ryan DiLello’s chest alone should do it.
Thanks for the updates on this. This is the first time in my life that I would actually like to go to Vegas!
Beka,
If it sticks around for a while, I’d love to put together a Pure DWTS meetup at the show. We’ll see how the show does.
you keep spelling Artem’s name wrong so we won’t get alerts if you talk about him Artem Chigvintsev
Barbara,
Thanks for the correction. I’ve updated the post with the correct spelling. You should see it once the cache refreshes.
just caught their performance on the DWTS results show, hello SYTYCD!! Anya Jaymz and Dmitry as the first 3 out of the gate, 3 of the hottest dancers we’ve ever had! cool to see Jaymz there, always thought he could have lasted longer on S2 if he’d been partnered better. I do remember his American Foxtrot, that was fun
Margaret,
I still need to do a post about it on Pure SYTYCD (maybe tomorrow). Hopefully I can pull off some interviews of the dancers at the show on Friday.
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