Perhaps my expectations were too great because Triumph sounds like a great concept on paper - a steampunk show that blends Jules Verne with Vegas style dance, acrobatics and magic.\n\nAlas, the show falls apart when it fails to deliver on its core concept - there is no steam punk.  There is a preposterous opening narrative that lays the groundwork for something that never quite materializes.  Instead, the audience is treated to a creepy, old duo of magicians who look like Siegfriend & Roy (pre-tiger) on steroids and mince about the stage silently performing the sorts of illusions we should all be bored of by now.\n\nThe supposed process of time travel is never explored, unless the mechanism for shifting between eras is impaling show girls on spikes and making large silver balls hover beneath silk scarves.  Whoever created the show not only made no attempt to learn anything about the Steampunk genre apart from initial costuming (nary a zeppelin in the set background) but also appears to possess a third-grader's knowledge of different cultures and time periods;  their version of china is like something from a racist Warner Brothers cartoon in the 50's, they clad the magician in head wrap traditionally worn by hindu women and I think India was supposedly represented by simply having the dancers take off their shirts.  It gets to the point where you expect a rendition of Walk Like an Egyptian to take place when they inevitably visit the land of the pharaohs.\n\nIt is unclear why they bothered with video screens when all they showed were cheesy photoshopped images of Mayan temples, the Statue of Liberty and the Leaning Tower of Pisa that more often than not just seemed to be non sequitur.  \n\nI also disagree with the reviewer who praised the dancing and choreography.  The movements were not crisp, frequently out of sync and the choreography itself looked like it was meant to be a parody of bad dancing.  Better yet, a couple of the male dancers were outright out of shape (we don't need to see muffin-top during shirtless numbers).  \n\nWe got our tickets \""1/2 price\"" for 40 bucks.  I cannot imagine how much self-loathing and regret would have accompanied paying the full 70+ dollars for them.  I do know that they only filled the first three rows of the auditorium, meaning the show probably is going to last much longer without a miracle.  Thankfully, we were seated near the \""self-service\"" bar where I picked up the most expensive trio of shots I've found in Vegas.\n\nAt least Bite, the Rock and Roll Vampire Show at the Stratosphere, is over the top.  Triumph is a straight flop.