Las Vegas Weekly

December 17, 2009 · 11:23 AM

Lady Gaga begins two-day run at the Palms without Kid Cudi

By Robin Leach

Lady Gaga.

Photo: The Light Group

It’s highly likely that Lady Gaga will step onto the stage of The Pearl in the Palms tonight and tomorrow for her two Las Vegas concerts in a high-neck, floor-length red gown with matching, sequined, raccoon-like eye makeup.

Then at dizzying speed, she’ll put Cher, Madonna, Gwen Stefani and Bjork to couture shame in a flurry of fabulous, flamboyant fashions as she promotes her album Fame Monster. Call Gaga the countess chameleon of the charts!

I’m told that the 23-year-old former New York performance artist turned fashion-forward style-setter and leader of the way-out-there pack will race through the creations of the Haus of Gaga fashion line.

They include a cyborg outfit, the famous bubble dress, a pyrotechnic bra and a lingerie-clad disco number as a 1980s club queen. There might even be a zombie bridal outfit. What she’ll wear to perform her latest single “Bad Romance” remains a secret until show time.

Palms hotel mogul George Maloof will lead a star-studded, Playmate-filled crowd to his private box at tonight’s show, which was added when her one and only original concert tomorrow sold out in less than an hour.

Photo: Denise Truscello/WireImage

Kid Cudi at Tao in The Venetian.

Opening act is out

Meantime, the following statement was released this morning shortly before 11: Kid Cudi, who was set to open for Lady Gaga tonight and tomorrow at The Pearl in the Palms, will no longer be a part of the Monster Ball Tour. If guests would like a refund due to Kid Cudi no longer performing, they must do so at The Pearl box office before the start of the show.

No reason for the very last-minute departure was given.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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