Kevin was fantastic! We were sitting close enough to Kevin that we could see his bald spot, his little bags under his eyes and as my sister said, the veins in his hands. Fans of his behind-the-ear curls will be interested to know that his hair was short but while you could see a bit of curl under his left ear, there was none on the right. 

He wasn't wearing the black tux that he'd been seen wearing in earlier concerts. This one was very snappy. I think the vest was the one seen on the inside cover of the soundtrack. The jacket lining was a bright green, kind of chartreuse. I half expected the yellow suit but maybe he's saving it for Las Vegas. As a fan of his MGGE Christmas party vest, I liked the one last night.

He sings beautifully in person. He has such a mesmerizing stage presence. When I saw him in the Iceman Cometh 5 years ago, I never dreamed that one day I'd be sitting in the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City watching him sing for 90 minutes!

I think that underneath that serious ac-TOR stage presence beats the heart of a true entertainer.  The audience loved him from the second he hit the stage. Probably before that!

The jokes he told were the same jokes that he has told at all of the other concerts but they sounded off the cuff last night. If you hadn't read about them in other reports, you'd have thought they were brand new. One thing that got a laugh was when he was introducing one song and said the title speaks for itself but they started playing a different song. Kevin joked that the song had spoken to *him* and that looked like it wasn't planned. Especially since he went back to his music stand and rifled through the sheet music and was talking but forgot to use the mic. That happened a few times. We were close enough to hear him without the mic, but I don't think the back of the room could!

Kevin dedicated the song Once Upon a Time to Sandra Dee. He said she'd seen the film 2 weeks ago and said she wouldn't change a thing. He also said she was doing well. (There have been rumors that she is in very bad health.)

My mother enjoyed Bridge Over Troubled Water. I liked If I Were a Carpenter. His Beyond The Sea, Mack the Knife and Splish Splash are better in person than on the CD. 

The crowd was very enthusiastic. There was quite an age range too. 

There was one fan front and center who kept standing up and dancing in place to the slower songs. She was wearing a red shirt. Does anyone want to admit to being the lady in red? 

At the end of the show, one of the women sitting up against the stage handed Kevin a red silk rose and he thanked her as he was shaking hands. Is she one of the BAS ladies? I thought I'd heard that one of them was going to try to do that.

The band was great. The back up singers were great. My ears were ringing from being too close to the stage! During the second standing ovation, the guy sitting next to me was clapping so enthusiastically that I was afraid to stand up because I thought he was going to hit me in the head. 

From my vantage point, as Kevin left the stage for the last time, I could see someone waiting for him in the wings with a white robe, the kind they throw on rock stars as they leave the stage!

On the way out, a woman walking past me told the gentleman she was with that she thought she liked Kevin better as a singer than she did as an actor. She was wearing a red/white/blue puffed heart pin. I wondered if she was there as a Spacey fan or a Darin fan. 

After we left the Xanadu, we walked through the casino to go get the car and as we walked and then waited for the car, people kept staring at the BTS items we had in our hands. Probably wondering where we got the free stuff!

When we got back to Caesars, the Johnny Mathis concert was letting out. They had programs. But I'll bet they didn't have Johnny Mathis cocktail napkins!

                                             

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