Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On

"I'm alive!" Bette Midler joyfully proclaims at the onset of her appropriately glitzy, gay and all together fab Vegas show. Unless you were aware that the Divine Miss M spent two years (180 shows!) at Vegas 'Colosseum in Caesars Palace, who can blame you for thinking Midler had dropped dead? M's been on the downlow in the last decade, releasing just a Christmas album in 2006 before heading out to Sin City for this wildly entertaining but less-ornate-than-Celine show at the Colesseum, now on DVD and Blu-ray. You'll feel jipped considering that almost a third of the live show was cut for the release, an abbreviated version that clocks in at just …