"Bite" Reviews Page

BITE is an erotic and sensual topless review based on deliciously evil vampires with a simple story line of sin, sex and seduction. The show centers around the Lord Vampire and his search for the perfect female specimen that he will seduce and make the queen of the night. Aiding the Lord is his coven of sultry and nimble dancers, the Erotic Angels of Rock. Their story will be told through the classic rock songs of the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s. Throughout the show, audience members will be chosen to become part of the erotic adventure.





As I have yet to see this show, I'm including a few reviews:

1.igoshows.com:

Bite

By Chuck Rounds

"Bite" is playing in the showroom at the Stratosphere Tower and Casino. The show combines an erotic vampire story told through scenes and dancing to classic rock & roll. It is a wonderful concept that is exciting and intriguing. It seems that all of the pieces are in place for an exhilarating evening of entertainment, but the show, unfortunately, falls short in several areas at this time.

Every night, the Lord Vampire holds a party to recruit minions and seek out and find the perfect female that will be transformed into his "Queen of the Night." The main attraction at the party is his beautiful bevy of topless, dancing vamps, which seek out willing participants. As people are transformed into vampires, they are able to perform amazing feats worthy only of supernatural beings. The story is told through the use of classic rock and roll. Each selection has been carefully chosen to build and relate the story to us, the partygoers.

The concept is good, the dancing is superior, the acrobatics are wonderful, and the singing is solid. The production, though as a whole, falls short in some key areas. Basic storytelling principles are overlooked. Motivations and objectives are unclear. Why is the Lord Vampire looking for a new woman anyway? He is surrounded by a pack of beautiful women, and he doesn’t seem displeased by them in any way. Why is this woman chosen? In what way is she special? What’s been the problem? And I really don’t care what the reason is...I just want something...anything.

Because the show shares the space with two other productions, the scenery must be limited, and the unit set for the production works fine for the most part. It is in the lighting of the space that causes the problems. The lighting, while often having some interesting angles and color, is always generalized enough to allow us to see the entire set, the entire time. This creates a similarity to every scene that dissipates our interest. Specific lighting and isolation of areas could produce a plethora of different looks for the production.

The costumes are erotic, exotic, and exciting. All of the costumes are great...except one. The final transformation of the woman into the Queen of the Night is completed through an onstage costume change. The problem is that the change takes too long, the costume is cumbersome, and the effect is minimal. It was a lot of effort, for very little effect.

The show is filled with gimmicks---magic, flying, special effects, etc. A lot of them are very good, but the feeling I got was that this is where the real time was spent, and not on the overall aspects of the production. They focused on each of the trees and lost sight of the forest.

"Bite" could be a great production. It has all of the right elements---a good concept, good people, and good support. The potential is all there. I want to see this show succeed, and hopefully, the production will be able to make improvements as it continues to run.

2. www.reviewjournal.com:

Campy vamps would be better: Stratosphere's vampire-themed 'Bite' owes its audience more than just 'Crazy Girls' with fangs

By MIKE WEATHERFORD

REVIEW-JOURNAL

A show called "Bite" featuring topless vampires should be either the best or the worst thing ever to hit the Strip.

The fact that the adult revue at the Stratosphere managed to find the middle ground in between is frustrating. You walk out wishing whoever designed the cool poster art and logo merchandise had more to do with the show itself.

The problem here is expectations. If you call your show "Crazy Girls," and your poster features women mooning the onlooker, then the ticket-buyer pretty much knows what he's going to get. (Unless it's the rare oddball who expects gals in straitjackets, rambling on about how Celine Dion told them to kill their mother.)

If, on the other hand, you promise people topless vampires, you owe them more than "Crazy Girls" in fangs, doing the usual bump-and-grind on a Gothic castle set accompanied by an incessant bombardment of classic rock.

This show could have gone two directions. I fully expected the easy and obvious path, in which all the old Elvira-type TV horror host puns -- "Fangs for the mammaries" and all that -- would be dusted off for the head vampire, played by Garin Bader.

But since this revue brought new blood to town -- see how easy it is? -- with Nashville-based cruise ship producer Tim Molyneux, there was always the long shot that "Bite" would be truly ambitious and venture into the erotic vampire terrain of Anne Rice or movies such as "The Hunger."

Somehow it manages to do neither. The show rumbles along for quite some time being neither good nor horrible -- except for those classic rock songs. Snippets of everything from Guns N' Roses' "Paradise City" to Bad Company's "Rock & Roll Fantasy" bombard you with the frequency used at baseball stadiums.

Some you can see were supposed to fit the vampire theme: Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark at the Moon" or Van Morrison's "Moon Dance." But for every one of those, there's unrelated '70s strip joint music from AC/DC or Journey. And don't they think anyone younger than 40 would see this show?

At least the women are attractive and the choreography is diverse. Fangs aside, the dance routines hold their own with the other late-night adult revues in the same price range.

Still, a sadistic few will sit there wondering if "Bite" eventually will jump the track from average to spellbindingly awful, just to liven things up. And eventually it does.

In what begins as one of the better moments in the show, an extremely unconvincing audience "volunteer" (Jimmy Bryant) is sensually surrounded and taken down by the vampire beauties. It's the kind of poetic, sexy moment you hope for.

But then the guy sits up and what does he do? He starts singing the Styx song "Come Sail Away," that's what he does.

More? You want more? When he gets to the part of the song about "a gathering of angels," the vampire babes come out with angel wings.

Well, better awful than boring.

The vampire theme does at least allow for some illusions to be incorporated in a theatrical context instead of the standard magic show way. The always-solid aerialist duo, Cees & Cathy, also gets to expand beyond the usual variety segment.

And a couple of moments point to what the vampire theme could be in more creative hands. The best of them has Bader -- who, offstage, is a concert-quality pianist -- playing away at a grand piano before his vampire women climb out of it and perform a topless ballet.

But eventually they start dancing to Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher," and again you wonder what that has to do with vampires. And you start to appreciate that there was more to Elvira than her cleavage.

When you start longing for the "pain in the neck" puns, you know you're in trouble.

3. www.vegas.com:

Taking a Bite out of Las Vegas

"Bite" is a production filled with topless female vampires, singing, dancing and cavorting, including some erotic dance numbers and audience participation as volunteers are brought up on stage to dance.

The plot involves the Lord Vampire -- amid a troupe of sexy, sometimes-topless, fanged sirens -- and his search for his perfect mate, the Queen of the Night.

Classic rock 'n' roll songs are spliced together to reveal the story -- among them Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild," Van Morrison's "Moondance" and Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever." The hook here is that there is no dialogue -- the story unfolds through the words of the songs.

"Bite" has a lot going for it besides the songbook. The set is interesting (if Spartan), the choreography exciting, the costumes delightful and the cast does an excellent job with what it has.