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SOUL IN THEIR ENCORE SEASON AT VENETIAN, FAITH HILL AND TIM MCGRAW DESIGN THE SHOW AROUND THEIR MARRIAGE, FAMILY, AND MEGAWATT CAREERS, WITH AN INTIMATE—BUT DECIDEDLY VEGAS—FEEL. BY JEWLY HIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY BY RUSSELL JAMES N early two decades ago, Faith Hill inadvertently foretold her future with her chipper, two-stepping country hit "Let's Go to Vegas." Sure, it was technically a song about eloping to a neon wedding chapel, which definitely wasn't how she and Tim McGraw tied the knot the year after the single scaled the charts. But the music video captured her performing in a retro, charmingly kitschy Las Vegas, doing the sing-and-shimmy atop a canary-yellow pedestal, flanked by feathered fan dancers, an Elvis impersonator, and a magician sawing a woman in half. "The thing that I remember most about that video," says the country-pop diva with a laugh, "was the boots that I wore. Those were the most uncomfortable boots I had ever worn in my life. I couldn't even walk off set." Those stiletto-heeled instruments of torture are long gone, but now that STYLING BY PETRA FLANNERY Hill and McGraw are staging their sleekly contemporary country show Soul2Soul at the Venetian Theatre, they've revived "Let's Go to Vegas" as a deliciously cheeky opening number. Says Hill, "You could never have convinced me that I would be singing that song 20 years from the time that I recorded it." "Nor could you convince me that I'd be singing it with her," McGraw chimes in. "But I have to say," adds Hill, "it was Tim's idea, and the producer of the show, Robert Deaton. I was kicking and screaming for many weeks, protesting and saying, 'No way. Don't even talk about it. I'm not even interested in doing that.' But once we were in rehearsal, and certainly once the audience was in the room, it became one of the most fun parts of the show." McGraw and Hill celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary the day 112 VEGASMAGAZINE.COM 112-117_V_Feat_CS_TimFaith_Dec13.indd 112 11/19/13 4:20 PM