Another point to take away from Robin Leach’s interviews for Las Vegas Weekly with Criss Angel was a behind the scenes look at the delays…
The reason for the delays was not anything to do with our creative process. The Monte Carlo resort had a roof fire earlier this year. We were in the process of getting permits and ensuring we followed the guidelines set out by the fire department.. but they changed the guidelines and made the public protection much stricter. We had to do redo parts of the theater. We had to get more money, a huge amount of money to change what was approved prior to that-and then changed again … So because of that we didn’t have the five weeks we actually wanted to do previews in the theater to do what we had to do with our first live audiences experiencing it
So there you have it.. straight from the source.