text: Chers performance was great but the venue was terrible As with many other shows in Vegas you are not allowed to take pictures and the audience largely complies For some reasons the folks at the palace feel that they need to confiscate ALL cameras entering the theater to be returned by a laborious process after the show The stupidity of this is quite evident in that any cell phone just about take an equivalent image Criss Angel Danny Ganns O Ka Wayne Brady etc are not sooooo special that they go to the exteme of confiscating the cameras of hundreds of ticket purchasers Basically they have you walk through a detector and THEN go over you with a detector and padding you down then rummaging through ones purse I thought the President himself was to be there Also the sheer numbers of security are times the usual amount and they walk around continuously during the performance talking into their headsets during the show VERY annoying and very distracting In summary the level of security was a complete joke and in turn I would have rather gone elsewear and simply caught Cher on iTunes I am just thankful there was not a body cavity search and nobody got tasednnAlso the show started about minutes late Maybe if security was not doing background checks joke it could start on time