Las Vegas Weekly

June 18, 2010 · 1:03 PM

Triumph opens at L.V. Hilton on Oct. 3; tickets go on sale tomorrow

By Robin Leach

The Strip.

Photo: Tom Donoghue/www.donoghuephotography.com

As tickets go on sale tomorrow for the new spectacular Triumph opening Oct. 3 at the Las Vegas Hilton, more secrets are slipping out. One of the most ambitious productions to ever be presented on a Las Vegas stage is being referred to as not a show but an experience steeped with influences from the master minds of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. It will be a mystical journey through time and a magical story of good conquering evil by the time-traveling voyagers.

“It is magic skills and dexterity never seen before, and the time travel will be live onstage. You won’t just see it. You will sense it and live it. Some of the imagery will even take place inside the surrounding audiences just inches from the performers,” I was reliably told. “It is a spell-binding theatrical adventure."

Incredible illusionists LaRaf are the stars and creators of Triumph. When Rafael first appeared in Las Vegas back in 1969, he was then hailed as the youngest ever Strip performer working in his family’s circus act Flying Palacios, where Siegfried & Roy befriended them. Rafael hails from a three-generation family of trapeze artists and was just 5 when he performed on a trapeze here at Circus Circus. LaRaf have won numerous European awards and performed for Pope John Paul II and Prince Rainier of Monaco.

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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