Magicians Penn & Teller celebrated their 10-year anniversary and three year contract extension running through 2013 with a Halloween Party at the Palazzo Suites at the Rio Hotel and Casino
Earlier in the evening, at the end of the Penn & Teller 10th anniversary show Jeff Solomon, assistant general manager of the Rio, and Michael Weaver, vice president of marketing for Harrah’s Las Vegas region, surprised the comedy-magic duo on stage. They presented the duo with a classic tenth anniversary gift of aluminum tin, gifting them with their own Penn & Teller-branded metal lunchboxes filled with their favorite treats – peanut brittle (Penn) and chocolate covered strawberries (Teller).
"After performing nightly for 10 years in the conveniently named Penn & Teller Theater, we're really looking forward to spending another three years there,” stated Penn Jillette. “We've never played anywhere for this long or worked in such a beautiful theater. The Rio and its staff have really made this our true home."
Performing together for more than three decades, the pair is marking the milestone by unveiling new, distinctively-offbeat creative advertisements.
Complementing the brand new, larger than life depiction of Penn and a helium-filled Teller, which currently stands 26-stories high and graces the side of the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, the comedy-magic team is introducing a whole new set of cleverly-deranged images to run in print advertisements and on billboards, locally as well as nationally.The comically-demented advertisements offers a visual testament to the dangers of improper handsaw use, a clear example of why you shouldn’t play with helium and how one can really use their brains to jump rope.
Penn & Teller landed in Las Vegas in 1993 and began a headlining engagement at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in January 2001.
Photo: Harrah’s Entertainment/Denise Truscello