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// on exhibit // A PlAce to HAng Your HoPes Las Vegas joins cities like New York and Washington, DC, in hosting one of Yoko Ono's Wish Tree installations. The artist's interactive display, on view at Cosmopolitan through spring, invites guests to write their wishes on slips of paper that are hung from the tree's branches. Over the next few months, the slips will be sent to Ono's Imagine Peace Tower in Reykjavik, Iceland, where more than a million wishes have already been collected from trees around the globe. The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, 702-698-7000; cosmopolitanlasvegas.com photography by peter Kramer/NbC/NbC Newswire (Fleetwood maC); eriK KabiK (Wish Tree); meredith JeNKs (sChumer); mega pixel (glass slipper) Reynolds Hall, Smith Center for the Performing Arts, 702-749-2000; thesmithcenter.com // for laughs // Funny Lady New York–born comedian Amy Schumer is having a good year. She landed a plum role in Judd Apatow's newest ensemble comedy, Trainwreck (also starring Bill Hader and Tilda Swinton), which arrives in theaters this summer. And now, three days after the premiere of the third season of her Comedy Central sketch series, Inside Amy Schumer, the phenom—who once likened packs of club-going women in Vegas to "chain gangs… carrying their heels and crying their makeup off"—will return to town for an evening of boundary-testing musings on sex, relationships, and life's little eccentricities. April 24. The Chelsea, Cosmopolitan, 800-745-3000; cosmopolitanlasvegas.com The Rumours Are True Fleetwood mac's core lineup lands in vegas for the first time in 17 years. by tess eyrich Over the course of nearly 50 years in the spotlight, Fleetwood Mac has been plagued by the aff lictions endured by most best- selling bands of the 1970s and '80s—bitter arguments, lineup cha nges, dra mat ic brea kups —a ll followed inev it ably by a reunion tour of some sort. This past year, however, has seen the group's best-known and most successful lineup come together for the first time since 1998, when keyboardist Christine McVie announced her departure from the band in favor of a bucolic life in England. In September, singer Stevie Nicks, guitarist Lindsey Buck ingha m, dr ummer Mick Fleet wood, a nd bassist John McVie embarked upon their On With the Show World Tour, this time with their keyboardist in tow (a feat Nicks described in 2012 as less plausible than an asteroid hitting the Earth). For one night only, they'll touch down in Vegas for an evening of old hits and new songs from their forthcoming album—the first they've recorded together since 1987's Tango in the Night. April 11. MGM Grand Garden Arena, 800-745-3000; mgmgrand.com Before MidnigHt Sure, Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1957 version of Cinderella, which starred a young Julie Andrews, may have been written for the small screen, but that hasn't stopped it from evolving into a big hit on Broadway. This month, the Tony Award–winning musical comes to life onstage at the Smith Center for a one-week engagement that promises to deliver all the excitement, romance, and suspense of the classic fairy tale. The touring cast, including star Paige Faure, who originated the title role on Broadway in 2013, has been earning raves nationwide. April 28– May 3 is our chance to join the chorus. on stage 44 VegasmagazINe.COm CuLture Spotlight