Jubilee!'s longest serving principal dancer from the opening night until her departure 23 years later was Linda Green. It took 9 stagehands to move it from one position to another. The bull was the heaviest single piece of scenery in the show weighing 3 tons (2700 kg). The bull was 27 feet (8 m) tall and collapses down to 13 feet (4 m) after it has been destroyed. Many of the show's sets dated back to the original production and include the sinking of the Titanic and the bull used in Samson and Delilah. UNLV Special Collections houses many of the original costume design drawings which can be accessed online through the Showgirls collection from UNLV Digital Collections. The show used costumes designed by Bob Mackie and Pete Menefee. The Jubilee! showgirls were an icon of old Vegas. When it closed in 2016, this resident show at Bally's Las Vegas was the longest-running production show in Las Vegas. Donn Arden set the standard for all the spectacular Las Vegas shows that celebrated female beauty, in combination with a demand for only the best in costumes, set, and talent. It opened on Jat an initial cost of 10 million dollars and was originally produced by Donn Arden. Jubilee! was a Las Vegas Strip-based spectacular revue.
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