Never has there been any quite as spectacular as the very aptly named 'Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular' which last night celebrated its first anniversary, and 501st performance, at the Venetian Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
There is a group of entertainers here in Las Vegas who, even though they don't have their own shows in their own showrooms, are here often enough to be considered permanent residents of The Strip.
When it opened on Broadway in 2005 it instantly became difficult to find fresh adjectives - rather, superlatives - to describe 'Spamalot', the musical (as the subtitle says) 'lovingly ripped off' from the 1975 film, 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
If it is true that everyone wants to be famous - that everyone wants to be on TV - then 'Jerry Springer: The Opera' is, among other things, a demonstration of this truth.
In an interview with Liza Minnelli published last Thursday, Las Vegas Review Journal columnist Norm Clarke asked her to name her most memorable Vegas show