Bette Midler News
Singer BETTE MIDLER has embraced her Hawaiian roots and learned to play the ukulele for her Las Vegas show.
The superstar treats fans to a rendition of the traditional islands instrument during performances at Caesar's Palace, where she has been performing nightly.
And she reveals it has fulfilled a lifelong ambition - because she could never afford her own ukulele when growing up in Honolulu.
Midler says, "I always admired it. I used to see the kids orchestras... the men and women who used to sing Hawaiian music and I was so envious of them. But you know, I was poor, and I didn't have the money for a ukulele.
"I picked it up and I've been playing it for a little less than a year."
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A year later, Bette Midler’s more refined act returns her to a time of heightened glory
A good Vegas show has become a great Vegas show.
After nearly a year at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Bette Midler’s “The Showgirl Must Go On” is a streamlined, elegant, grown-up show, a show for people who have lived life, who have a sense of history, humor and the pain that comes with it.
The show now fits its star, rather than her trying to fit the show, compete with scale of the stage, the expectations and the decorations, which include 18 chorines (the Caesar Salad Girls), and three backing singer-dancers (the Staggering Harlettes). Although she takes a few good-natured pokes at her predecessor, Celine Dion, Midler’s not trying to outdo anyone technologically now. With all the glamorous, glittery stuff that’s going on around her, the focus remains squarely on her — she finds her light, and stays in it.
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Bette Midler does Sin City
The singer, who performs 100 days a year at Caesars Palace, talks about where to eat, where to shop and which shows to see (besides hers).
Reporting from Las Vegas - In the opening to her new show, Bette Midler is buffeted into Las Vegas atop a tornado. Of course, twisters in the Mojave Desert are rare. Yet as soon as "Miss M" hits the stage, the curtain-raiser makes perfect sense: At age 63, Midler's still a whirlwind.
"I stand here before you sucked and silicone-free. And in Las Vegas, that's really saying something!" she tells the audience inside the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, where Midler now performs about 100 days a year, in rotation with Cher and Elton John.
"The Showgirl Must Go On" intertwines the songs that made Midler famous with an homage to the productions that used to grace showrooms up and down the Strip.
"People like spectacle, and they come for the glitter and the glitz," she explains. "They want to be knocked out."
