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8HKSBHHHHB ft 'Hallelujah The "show of shows" is only one week away. Donn Arden's Hallelujah Hollywood," the most spectacular of all extravaganzas, will be unveiled in a formal opening Friday, April 19th at the MGM Grand Hotel. The announcement of the opening of the spectacular was made by MGM Grand president Alvin Benedict Arden, the world's foremost producer of nightclub extravaganzas, has created in Hallelujah Hollywood a crackling show version of just about everything musical MGM turned out in celluloid. The show, with a cast of 120, including many "beautiful showgirls and dancers, will be staged in the appropriately named Ziegfeld Room of the sprawling new resort hotel. Showgirls, canders, singers, dancing nudes and others will drape and undrape themselves in over 700 glittering, sparkling costumes, in front, on top, underneath and inside spactacular stage settings on the largest and most modern stage in the world. The show will most certainly be the super-spectacular to top all previous attempts at the lable, with such distinctive Arden touches as a full-sized pirate ship going up in flames and sinking, and a full-scale full-stage aquarium in which a dolphin does a water-ballet with an aquabelle ?╟÷ winding up with the mammal disrobing the girl. In addition to spectacular production numbers* Jhe show features some of the world's top sp< ' ?√ß' ''"^ :- n clips from great MGM movies, and almost a of animals in cluding lions, tigers, llamas, a camel, elephant and others. Hallelujahjfollywobd will run twice nightly in the Grand's Ziegfeld Room Las Vegas Sun 4/12/74 MGM Bound ir- ixi\! HALLELUJAH . . . HOLLYWOOD COMES TO LAS VEGAS ?╟÷ Donn Arden's Hallelujah Hollywood, the most spectacular of all extravaganzas, will be unveiled in a formal opening Friday, April 19th in the Ziegfeld Room of the MGM Grand Hotel. The show promises to be the super-spectacular to top all previous attempts at such a label, with such distinctive Arden touches as a fuiiscale - full stage aquarium in which a dolphin does a water-ballet with an aquabelle ?╟÷ winding up with the mammal disrobing the girl. 4C LAS VEGAS SUN ' Sunday, April, 14, 1974 If MGM's Grand Hotel in Las Vegas doesn't make it now?╟÷tit never will. Donn Arden??sliong^awaited '?√ßw^^Sfr Hallelujah Hollywood is the smashingest show of its kind to hit the gambling town. It cost 2 million, has a cast of 200, an^aVl^e^ most indescribably lush costumes -?╜v^r created by Bob Mackie and Ray Agayhan. The showcase is mind boggling Rona Barrett on KTTV I LAS VEGAS WHIRL by Betty Boyle a There's just no end to the big happenings in our great.city Now it's DON ARDEPTS "HALLELUJAH HOLLYWOOD," the most spectacular of all extravaganzas, which will be unveiled in a formal opening Friday, Apnl 19th at , the MGM GRAND HOTEL. ARDEN the world's foremost producer of nightclub ex- tra^an^ h?· cLted in HALLELUJAH HOUTOOOt>, a crackling stage version of just about evei^thing musical MGM turned out in celluloid. The show, with a cast of 120, including many beautiful showgirls and dancers, will be staged in the ap- propiriately named ZIEGFELD ROOM. ^ The show will most certainly be the super-spectacular to top: aU previous attempts at the label, with such distinctive ARDEN touches as a full-sized pirate ship going up in flames and sinking, and a full scale, fuU stage aquarium in which a dolphin does a Water Ballet with an Aquabelle -winding up witji the mammal disrobing the^irl! Arem reader that! As if all this ain't enough already .'. . The show will feature some of the world's top specialty acts, m caps rom ereat MGM movies, and almost a ci *PP m" feeding lions, tigers, llamas, a camel, a H HALLELUJAH HOLLYWOOD will run twice nightly in >the GRAND'S ZIEGFELD ROOM . . . So HALLELUJAH!