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Veteran performer Tony Sacca, the “Entertainment Ambassador of Las Vegas” and founder of the Las Vegas Rocks Café, has returned to his entertainment roots because of his new downtown venue where there are three distinct rooms: the main dining room; the Marquee Room; and the Embassy Theatre.

The Marquee Room, a relaxed, intimate, retro-Vegas-style showroom with dining tables, has created a sort of “back to the future” experience for Sacca, who is again performing on a regular basis. He takes the stage with live musicians every Friday and Saturday evening in the Marquee Room where an audience can enjoy a meal or cocktail while enjoying the music.

Before Sacca settled in Las Vegas with his now deceased identical twin brother Robert, he toured the country extensively with their act known as “The Sacca Twins.” He performed in a myriad of settings, ranging from hotels and nightclubs to concert rooms and resorts. At that time, the venues featured show bands, which are now a fading breed, but were similar to the Society of Seven and Scintas acts. For the Sacca Twins, it was necessary to entertain with imagination in order to overcome the lack of a hit record,

Their audiences were entertained by a variety of hit tunes, many different genres of music, and a large wardrobe in a structured show from start to finish. “This was a very necessary format if you were to compete with the well known entertainers. When touring around the country, you couldn’t please all the audiences all the time, but you could sure try,” according to Sacca.

We traveled from north to south and east to west in a school bus with a full-size band that included three horns, two road managers, costumes and a couple of dogs. Before relocating to Las Vegas in 1981, the Sacca Twins were held over in Puerto Rico, at the El San Juan Hotel for three years. One evening Siegfried of Siegfried & Roy was vacationing in Puerto Rico and took in a Sacca Twins show. He visited backstage afterwards and complimented the duo on their act and invited them to Las Vegas. They took him up on the offer and the rest is history.

Sacca continued to perform in Las Vegas on a part time-basis in 1986 while developing his entertainment variety talk show “Entertainment Las Vegas Style,” which has become a staple in the Las Vegas community for nearly 25 years.

Sacca has been delighting customers in the Marquee Room with the showmanship he gained from his past. He loves being close to the audience and resurrecting the song stylings of a bygone era. As the venue’s founder, he’s even having more fun and it shows.

The Las Vegas Rocks Café is located downtown at Neonopolis, 450 Fremont Street. There’s easy access free validation parking on Fourth Street between Fremont Street and Ogden in the underground Neonopolis Parking Garage. For information, call 702-227-5872 (LVRC).

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