Review of Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

Almost 20 minutes of the show is missing. Her entire sequence with her mermaid character is missing. I saw this show in Vegas at The Caesars Palace Coliseum: Bette (and all the "Caesar Salad" girls) are in motorized "Larks" (kind of a "sporty" wheelchair, if you are not familiar with it) and do a full-blown mermaid Broadway musical review in full skin-tight fish tail costumes. All singing and dancing. It is both amazing and hilarious. Well, it "ain't" on this disk! No-siree! We are treated to other flaws of the performance instead: 1. The entire overly-long opening sequence complete with a donkey, reprising the Wizard of Oz" tornado. (Bette blows in from Kansas) 2. Bette swearing like a sailor and her inane monologue. Too short of a performance. The original show was about 95 minutes and had a "planned" encore. It seems like other parts are missing as well (?).