Italian-American
Psychedelic
A Mouthful that Results in a Fun Night Out, Grabbing Some Opium Before Dinner
By Jason Harris
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ome people have flashbacks to their times in war. I have flashbacks to my time in trenches of a different kind. There are nights where I shiver and shake, thinking to myself of all those hours I spent in the battlefield known as dinner theater. So, when the assignment came down and I found out I’d be covering Superfrico, the new dining plus entertainment experience at The Cosmopolitan, I shuddered, thinking back to my days of playing over-the-top Italian stereotypes
and trying to get your Aunt Gertrude out of her seat to join the conga line. As it turns out, though, Superfrico is not dinner theater. It’s elevated but familiar, a part of the “everything old is new again” trend but with a spiffy, buzz-word type name: immersive dining. This is where your evening meal converges with entertainment of some type. The show here is built to enhance your dining experience, not be passive and observational. Here, the acts happen all around the guests. These are the performers who star in Opium, the Spiegelworld
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