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Adele impersonator Janae Longo takes Las Vegas by storm
Cheers erupt from the audience the moment she bursts into the opening lyrics of Someone Like You with a mezzo-soprano vocal range that also sounds hauntingly familiar.The hits keep coming – Easy On Me, Chasing Pavements, Rolling In The Deep and more – with most of the crowd on its feet demanding more by the end of her set.This may be Vegas but the star on stage is definitely not Adele and her audience is less than one-tenth the size of a full house at the 4,100-capacity Colosseum theatre in nearby Caesars Palace.We are actually a one-and-a-half mile stroll down the famous Vegas Strip at the Tropicana casino resort’s compact Legends in Concert Theatre, which holds a mere 356.Performing there six nights a week is 45-year-old New Yorker Janae Longo – an Adele impersonator who bears a striking resemblance to the Tottenham-born diva.Last week, Janae’s bosses at the Tropicana offered free entry, to any of her shows, to frustrated fans of the real Adele.Some had blown small fortunes flying to Sin City to hear their superstar kick-off her first Vegas residency, only for her to cancel the day before opening night on January 20.Scores have already taken advantage of the Tropicana deal.