When Caesars Palace announced its plans, counting on Dion to fill
4,000 seats at every performance, the skeptics went wild. Even Elvis
Presley and Frank Sinatra, at the peaks of their fame, couldn’t generate
audiences like that.
But the naysayers were wrong. Dion
opened to a tremendous advance sale and the proposed two-year run soon
stretched to five. In the end, her show, A New Day, played 700
performances to more than three million spectators for a gross in excess
of $400 million (U.S.). (Her second show, Celine, opened at The
Colosseum in 2011 and is continuing to break box office records.)
“Somehow, during a costume change, my shoes went missing. It was like;
do I leave the audience waiting, or do go out in my bare feet? You can’t
keep the people waiting, especially on opening night, so I started the
song shoeless . . . and just as I was starting to sing, my brother
Michel came on stage with the missing shoes! I think that moment set the
tone for every show since then. We’re ‘live’ and that means no show is
ever exactly the same as another.”- Celine Dion
March 25 marked the 10th anniversary of the opening of The Colosseum,
the 4,000-seat flagship theatre in Caesars Palace built especially for
Dion. It is on that stage that the Quebec native kick-started Vegas’
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