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JUL 111869 JLj'.CI, Est.l Pzazz' Spectacular Spectacle By HOWARD PEARSON News Entertainment Editor LAS VEGAS (Special) ?╟÷ Whatever doubts there might - have been about Las Vegas being the musical - entertainment capital of the world are dispelled by "P^az?: '70 and All That Jazz," which opened at the Desert Inn this week. No Broadway stage could accommodate the gigantic revue which attracted newsmen, celebrities, political leaders and others to a glamor-studded premiere. Imagine a stage a half of a block long with enough electric lights to light a small community. This is just one of the features of the production which has dancing, singing, impressionists, acrobats and illusionists in an original revue. In fact, the 18,000 electric lights, which required installation of a new half-million watt transformer at the hotel, make the stage look like the Las Vegas strip itself. They form many patterns as they blink on and off and make up the background for the 12-act spectacular, which moves along at such a clip the opening-night audience was hardly aware it had started before it had finished. The program is tastefully costumed and presented for the most part. The show starts out with a Will Jordan does impressions of performers. look at Las Vegas Today. A tribute to jazz greats, such as"\" Glenn Miller, Les Brown, Tommy Dorsey and Duke Ellington follows this. This act is performed while pictures of the orchestra leaders are shown on screens at the sides of the stage. Montego, a juggler who balances balls, fire and cardboard cutouts, drew round after round of applause as did every act. In fact, I saw the waitresses and waiters sitting on stairs in the large auditorium ?√ß / watching the show intently. It would be difficult to single out one of the acts as best. All 2 are equal in brilliance of conception by Donn Arden, who produced the show. The performers move from a dramatization of Chicago in the prohibition era to a spoof on various phases of Hollywood presentations today. Marvin Roy presents a magic light act which is almost unbelievable. In one segment, he produces 10 light bulbs out of thin air. He then lights them. The bulbs, which give off enough light to read ' by without straining one's eyes, are lined up along Roy's knuckles, where nothing existed before he waved his hand in the air. The voices in all the acts are big arid beautiful, especially those of Jacqueline ^ou^ueLandJBabW Hill. Some undoubtedly will be heard on television programs this fall and winter if they can be spared from the Desert Inn. And speaking of television, Will Jordan, who does such a fine impression of Ed Sullivan, is the comedian with ""Pzazz ..."" His impressions, which probably will be featured on the Sullivan show again, cover several personalities and are unique in that he presents impressions of four different sets of singers and actors at the same time. They sound like each other and Jordan gives the voices so rapidly the audience can detect the similarities easily. ""Pzazz ..."" winds up with; about 50 dancing girls and boys on the stage at the same time and with scores of colored birds flying from the ceiling into the main auditorium. ^ Las Vegas, Nevada Vegas Visitor (Cir. W. 45,000) M 841969 jilLni P.CB. Est. 1888 DAZZLING - A stageful of beautiful dancers go through the exciting opening number of the Desert Inn's new musical superspectacular. ""Pzazz '70?"" The Million Dollar production which broke all Desert inn records in its first week is presented twice nightly in the hotel's elegant Crystal Room. "