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PZAZZ 70 IN REHEARSAL FOR VEGAS Lavish 'Pzazz /70/ Revue to Bow Wednesday in Vegas BY JOHN L SCOTT " LAS VEGAS?╟÷"Pzazz 70 and All That Jazz, Baby!," the stage spectacular opening Wednesday with a gala invitational preview at Howard Hughes' Desert Inn, carries a subtitle: "A Hippy, Happy Trip to the Towns Where It's At." It could but won't exploit another subtitle: "The first million dollar revue . . . and without nudes." Labor, construction and costume costs and performing fees have spiraled 15% in the last year or two, according to Frank Sennes, who has been producing stage spectaculars in 1 ,as Vegas for two decades. 'This huge outlay?╟÷$1 million for one show ?╟÷ is not something to boast he said during a break in intensive rehearsals overseen by Donn Arden, who has been creating, staging and directing revues in association with Sennes since 1953. "It's just a fact we have to face. "For instance, we'll use 30 stagehands, 10 wardrobe personnel, 10 in the lighting booth and we've increased the orchestra to 18. "We are paying $500,000 more a year in salaries. Costumes alone cost another $500,000. We'll amortize the show at $60,000 a week." Sennes shook his head, saying, "Think of $1,200 apiece for girls' costumes in just one number . . . And for hand-embroidered tights for men?╟÷ $1,150." There will be no nudes in "Pzazz '70". although the3r were included in, the plans at one stage. "We don't need Sennes said. "We'll keep this a family show* like our others." Sennes and Arden opened the Moulin Rouge in Hollywood 16 years ago with what was then considered a lavish production. "The show cost $60,000 to produce," Sennes said with a raiher grim smile. "At that time if anyone said I would ever spend $1 million on any attraction I'd have called in the bo\~s. with the white coats." Using an expanded stage ("probably the largest theater stage in the world/: Sennes said, "Pzazz '70" will be a recreation of the golden era of entertain- ' ment in key U.S. cities, according to Arden. "There'll be satire and some high camp," he said, "although probably most of our out-of-town visitors won't recognize the latter." Arden explained that the show will pay tribute ' to such entertainment capitals as Las Vegas, San Francisco, Please Turn to Page 50