People still want to gamble, but they’re also hoping to see such stars as Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and, soon, Aerosmith, Drake and Janet Jackson.
Clockwise from left: Celine Dion, Lady Gaga and the Backstreet Boys. By Sonia Rao Sonia Rao Pop culture reporter Email Bio Follow March 14 at 4:31 PM The allure of Las Vegas residencies fizzled out after the reigns of Elvis Presley and his Rat Pack predecessors. Live entertainment took a back seat to the rush of gambling, and with an influx of heritage acts in the century’s last quarter, the city gained its long-held reputation of being where musical talents fade away.
In the early 2000s, Vegas theaters still struggled to book contemporary artists, and Dion was straight off a No. 1 album release with “A New Day Has Come.” But the couple were fans of Cirque du Soleil, Nelson said, and Angélil had the foresight to try to apply its style of showmanship to another sort of spectacle.
John was the first of several big names to follow in Dion’s footsteps. “The Red Piano” ranks third among the highest-grossing residencies — below “A New Day . . .” and Dion’s ongoing production, “Celine,” and right above Britney Spears’s “Piece of Me,” a high-energy performance that, according to USA Today’s Marco della Cava, turned “a cavernous 7,000-seat amphitheater into a raging nightclub.
Although the shows can be physically taxing — Gaga’s “Enigma,” per The Washington Post’s Chris Richards, begins with her “dangling from the ceiling on a metallic thread, her spine slightly curved like a fallen rococo angel” — residencies also eliminate travel.
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