Inspired by a performance of Cirque du Soleil’s “O,” Ms. For starters there was nowhere to house her Caesars built a 4,100-seat theater for her at a cost of $95 million. Dion first came up with the idea of a residency in Las Vegas around 2000, that kind of success was far from assured, as she recounted in a behind-the-scenes documentary on the show’s DVD (released on Tuesday and already selling out). Dion with revitalizing the fortunes of the hotel itself. Gary Selesner, the president of Caesars Palace, credited Ms. Over the years fans like her, flocking to Las Vegas from all corners of the globe, have helped pull in $400 million in sales, the show’s producers said.Ĭeline Dion during her signature song My Heart Will Go On in her final show in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Wylie said, “It’s been my escape for the last five years.” She likened her fervor to a drug addiction except, she said, “it’s legal, it’s wholesome.” But it’s also pricey: She estimated she had easily spent $15,000 to $20,000 on her Dion habit. Dion said she was “extremely in shock that, night after night, week after week, year after year, you came, you were here.” “I think you understand our emotions tonight.” Almost every number was punctuated by ovations Ms. “It’s quite hard to believe that we’ve come to an end,” she said to the crowd.
Despite early negative reviews and her desire to stay home with her young son, Ms. Dion said in the two-hour final show, during which she went through seven costume changes and several speeches about her career and family. “I’m trying to elongate the evening,” Ms. Over 717 performances, nearly three million people have seen the show, an elaborate hybrid of a concert and a Cirque du Soleil-style spectacle with a cast of 50 dancers and musicians. On Saturday night about 4,000 fans bid farewell to “A New Day,” which has been running in the custom-built Colosseum theater at Caesars since March 25, 2003.
Wylie said, was that her dress hid her commemorative “New Day” tattoo. It was an undeniably elegant ensemble the only problem, Ms. Inside her $3,400 Judith Leiber clutch, bought at the gift shop adjacent to the theater and also bedazzled with the logo, were several autographed photos of Ms. She wore a floor-length black gown and a sparkly white shawl around her neck was a silver pendant in the shape of the show’s first logo, an elongated figure of a woman. LAS VEGAS For the final performance of “A New Day,” Celine Dion’s show at Caesars Palace here last weekend, M J Wylie, 49, a health-care consultant from Denver, decided to go formal.