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Date Posted: 22:08:06 08/05/04 Thu
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Lani Misalucha to perform in Las Vegas for 6 months
Updated 11:02am (Mla time) Aug 06, 2004
By Ruben V. Nepales
Inquirer News Service
LOS ANGELES, California, United States of America -- Misalucha spoke to the Fil-Am media at a gathering to announce that she and the Society of Seven (SOS), a veteran show band from Hawaii, have landed a six-month contract to perform at Bally's Las Vegas beginning this Saturday, Aug. 7. The show's publicists are declaring that with her gig at the 1,160-seat Jubilee! Theater, Misalucha becomes "the first Filipino artist originating from the Philippines to headline a main showroom in a major Las Vegas strip hotel-casino for six months."
Misalucha added, "My manager here has so many plans for me. I have an upcoming album. I have a tour. So I don't regret leaving the Philippines."
About her Las Vegas stint, in which she will sing with the SOS at the Jubilee! Theater daily except Friday, she gushed, "Honestly, this is something that I've never dreamed of. I never thought that this would happen to me and that I'm going to be there singing for six months. This is something that I've never planned. Never, never, never."
Misalucha, labeled in Manila as "Asia's nightingale," and the SOS will be performing as one act. SOS includes Gary Bautista, who also had a flourishing career as a singer and impressionist in Manila before moving to Hawaii.
SOS co-founder and member Tony Ruivivar explained, "We are pooling our talents together. We have a good chance of competing with the other great talents who are in Las Vegas. Never in our entire career did we think that we were going to have a woman in the group because I do a lot of numbers as a woman (laughs), and so does Gary. But when we heard Lani sing, we said, this is it. She is the best I've ever heard. She also has a great personality. She's very down to earth."
SOS manager Larry Harrison added, "I brought one of the top writers of the Las Vegas Sun to watch a preview. He said, my God this is unbelievable. He stood up and gave a standing ovation. Society of Seven is exciting on its own. They can put on a show that's unbelievable. With Lani, it's going to be even better."
The other members of the SOS, which is a regular act on the Strip, are Randy Abellar, Roy Guerzo, Wayne Wakai, Hoku Low and Bert Sagum.
Misalucha and SOS' revue of music and comedy routines goes on at 3 p.m. "Jubilee!," the long-running spectacle of occasionally topless showgirls, is the evening attraction at the theater.
Sustaining an afternoon show for several months in Las Vegas is a challenge, so if the revue by the act jokingly referred to as the Society of Eight (including Misalucha) is a success, the trailblazing Filipino-American producers, marketing and advertising people deserve as much credit as the performers.
The show is produced by Rosy Cheeks Entertainment Group Inc., composed of Mendrei and Cecile Leelin, Noli Misalucha and Edwin and Lani Raquel, at whose LA mansion the press conference was held. Former Manila writer Jackie Y. Regala handles the marketing and promotions. Her husband Gerry A. Katigbak is in charge of advertising.
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