text:  Terry Fader signed a $100 million contract with the Mirage and performed there for 11 years. The Mirage was the very first of that whole new era of Las Vegas, where the Las Vegas Strip became much more than just a place to go gamble and get $1.99 steak and eggs. Fader says the Mirage cemented its place in the new Vegas in 2000 when it signed the singing impressionist Danny Gantz.