Enter a world of glamour and high-stakes excitement – without breaking the bank! Your $10 ticket gives you $50 worth of play cash to gamble with (use the money to buy cool prizes).
There will be Blackjack, Roulette, Craps, Let it Ride, and Horse Racing, not to mention cigar girls and some classic Sinatra tunes. Hosted by John Murphy (Rock Paper Scissors improv troupe), the evening will consist of gambling with play money from 9pm to 1am, and will culminate with a frantic bidding war on prizes. There will also be random prize draws for restaurant/bar gift certificates and more throughout the night. There's over $5000 worth of prizes in total, including a Grand Prize Trip for Two to Las Vegas.
So dress up in your best James Bond, Rat Pack or Austin Powers finery, and come on down to Vegas Night!
Date: Friday, October 8
Location: "Point Blanc Casino" - (i.e. the White Spot!)
1616 West Georgia Street (at Cardero)
Gambling at 9pm - Live auction at 1am.
Tickets are available in advance at Biz Books, 302 West Cordova - call (604) 669-6431, or at the door.
Why am I telling you about this, you ask?
Vegas Night is a fundraiser for the upcoming staging of the play, "TAPE", performed by my actor friends Jeb Beach, Nicole McLennan, and Noah Casey. They are truly talented, and participating in an ambitious project, so I'm doing everything I can to support them. "TAPE" is a gripping and modern play (made into an acclaimed film in 2000 with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman). In a novel twist, it's being performed twice nightly by by two different casts!
Dates: Oct. 15th - Oct. 30th, 2004 at 8 pm.
Venue: Squire John's Playhouse in the Beaumont Studios, 316 West 5th Avenue, Vancouver.
Tickets: $20/$16. Ticket price covers both nightly performances (8pm and 9:15pm). Tickets are available through the Ticket Line: 778-371-9629.
