put on. Valerie Perrine was a showgirl in Lido de Paris in the late 1960s. In addition to showgirls, Lido de Paris also featured comedy and live animals. Siegfried & Roy, along with their animals, were among performers in the show during the 1970s. Other notable performers at the Stardust included Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Phyllis Diller, Robert Goulet, Don Rickles, Billy Daniels, Chicago, Steve and Eydie, The Temptations, the Four Tops, George Carlin, Bobby Berosini, Andrew Dice Clay, and Bob Newhart. Aside from the main showroom, the Stardust also had entertainers perform in its lounge, which was expanded in 1969. The lounge, present since the resort's opening, was replaced with new casino space during renovations in 1975. The $1 million, 650-seat Starlight theater lounge was opened on October 1, 1976, replacing the one that had closed a year earlier. According to the Las Vegas Sun in 1977, Argent Corporation "took out the best lounge in town at the Stardust, replaced it with a mini-main showroom, treated it as a lounge, over priced it, then closed it." The Starlight Lounge reopened at the end of 1977. Lido de Paris continued to run until 1991, when it was replaced by a modernized show that also featured topless showgirls. The new show was part of an effort by Boyd Group to modernize the Stardust. Another reason for the original show's closure was the high cost of production. Lido de Paris ran for more than 32 years, putting on 22,000 performances. The new show, Enter the Night, opened in July 1991. The show was updated with new costumes and cast members in 1997, and figure skater Dorothy Hamill briefly performed in the show during 1998. Thunder from Down Under, a male revue, did several shows at the Stardust in the 1990s. In October 1999, the Stardust hired Wayne Newton as its resident headliner for a reported $25 million per year. Newton would perform in the 920-seat Stardust Theater, which would be renamed the Wayne Newton Theater. Enter the Night ended in December 1999, and Newton began performing in the same theater space a month later. Newton helped to keep the Stardust competitive during its final years. Bob Anderson performed at the Stardust in 2000, and began a three-month residency two years later, in the Starlight Lounge. Gene Pitney made his Las Vegas Strip debut at the Stardust in 2003, and hypnotist Anthony Cools