New "Celine" show: What FACTS do we know for sure?

[Nmj]

Im not sure i like fancier show, id rather have a high energy concert

[smw]

Im not sure i like fancier show, id rather have a high energy concert

 

I'll take a "fancier" show -- but I hope there is energy throughout. I think there will be some upbeat songs…

 

I highly doubt it will be an entire evening of ballads. I don't think Celine would be able to handle that! She'd dread doing the show every night. But I do think this will be her most elegant show to date. More in line with a Barbra Streisand show.

[stone]

Yeah I think they're bringing the elegance and class to the Strip. I guess Celine is the only one who can do that! Mimo? lol

[mirage]

An MJ tribute, songs from James Bond movies,

 

Celine's song count will be around 25 with numerous costume changes. Ten$ of million$ invested in the show + ten$ of million$ more on video

 

Caesars president Gary Selesner tells me new show will shock people because so much bigger and better than New Day. I am elated he said

[anewdayhascome]

MJ's songs and James Bond! I'm really disappointed. Not matter if the songs are greatly performed but there will be no place for no hits songs like during A New Day... (I Surrender, Ammore Anasucunto etc).

I am sure the show will be great but I'm disappointed as I thought it would more 'Celine' like they said. But let's leave it and wait for the setlist though I don't expect much anymore

[luisnicole]

No matter what I bet this show will be rock, don´t take early conclusions, plus now will be diferent that a new day, don´t the 3D part and now they know what peolple what, in anew day took along time to figured out.

[kathyc25]

I heard about the MJ songs I`m so excited!!

[davidjag79]

MJ's songs and James Bond! I'm really disappointed. Not matter if the songs are greatly performed but there will be no place for no hits songs like during A New Day... (I Surrender, Ammore Anasucunto etc).

I am sure the show will be great but I'm disappointed as I thought it would more 'Celine' like they said. But let's leave it and wait for the setlist though I don't expect much anymore

 

My goodness people jumping to conclusions they will mix in her greatest hits with the hollywood themed songs, come on have a little faith I am sure the show will be amazing

[Ronny83]

Celine Dion fans can thank Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for sweeping upgrades to her new Las Vegas show.

 

It was a case of keeping up with the Joneses, said John Meglen, president of entertainment giant AEG Live!, co-producers of Dion’s upcoming show at Caesars Palace.

 

During separate interviews with Vegas Confidential, Meglen and Rene Angelil, Dion’s husband and manager, revealed how the new show, "Vegas," was created.

 

There will be technology “that no one has seen before,” said Meglen. Longtime Grammys director Ken Ehrlich came on board with changes that “are really featuring Celine.”

 

“We have to have things that no one has seen before. We have to raise the bar again,” said Meglen. “And marrying the technology in a way that it supports the sophistication of the class of Celine and an orchestra, that’s the challenge.

 

“The challenge is things can get too technical, they can get too flashy. You don’t want to rely on technology. You want to use the newest and the greatest technology, but it always has to be in a position of enhancing Celine’s performance."

 

So what does that mean as far as the giant LED screen?

 

“The video is getting bigger," said Meglen. "We are adding to it, in different ways. We’re adding more video.”

 

He said Jones came to a Celine show “and put up that giant screen in Cowboys Stadium so we now have to up Jerry Jones.”

 

With Franco Dragone, who directed Dion’s first show, “there was a balance between Celine and Franco Dragone,” said Meglen.

 

“What Ken Ehrlich brings to the table is really shining the star of Celine.”

 

“And that’s part of the reason why Ken Ehrlich is so important because no one knows Celine and Rene as well as Ken Ehrlich, and he has directed about every special she has ever done. She is close with him, not just professionally, but personally so he’s really going to know how to bring that side of Celine out in many ways much more than Franco Dragone did.”

 

As reported here several months ago, one of the bigger changes will be a full 31-piece orchestra that will probably grow, Meglen said, by Dion’s March 15 opening.

 

“We planned for that,” he said. “We have the contingency for that. It needs to be what it needs to be at the end of the day. And you can not let finances take away from that. You can’t let that effect the creative process.”

 

Angelil said the original plan was to bring the tour show to Las Vegas for Dion’s next run, but that would have meant many would have already seen it.

 

“But halfway through the tour we decided to go with a whole new show,” said Angelil, in a telephone interview Thursday from his Lake Las Vegas home.

 

A factor in that decision was the excitement created when Dion teamed up with a 31-piece orchestra for the 400th anniversary celebration of Quebec City.

 

After a massive crowd of 250,000 showed up for the event, the buzz reverberated for many months.

 

“For an artist,” said Angelil, “there’s nothing better than working with an orchestra.”

 

And Ehrlich directed three Celine specials for CBS, “so we had a very close relationship.”

 

Strong pre-sales point to another successful run, Meglen said, even in the face of a lingering recession.

 

“Fifty four shows are on sale, almost all sold out. We have some, the first couple runs are just about clean and then we get into the June run where we have more seats available. There’s still some seats available but it’s getting very scarce," he said.

 

“We’re 20 percent ahead of our sales, you know, this many days out from the first performance as we were when we opened ‘A New Day.’

 

“It’s been a tough couple years here. The Colosseum has done well. It did not do anywhere near as great as it did when Celine was here and we were also here in the boom years.

 

“To me one of the most important things here, she’s coming back when we need her the most.

 

“A comment I’ve been making and I’ll make it out there today, is that Celine has been employing -- because of what she created here -- we’ve been employing more than 200 people here for (almost) 10 years in the Colosseum. Over 100 of them are still working here today. That’s 200 jobs for 200 families in a time like this.

 

“I think it’s so important to acknowledge that right now. She’s coming back in a time period when the town needs the help. It’s almost like she’s coming in to help the town.”

 

--NORM CLARKE, Vegas Confidential

http://www.lvrj.com/columnists/normclarke/...94.html?ref=894

[mirage]

HUH bigger??

 

I'm sooo curious right now how the screen will look!!!

[Yakir]

I can't wait!!!

[Ronny83]

Ken told me: “It’s not enough to say this will be Celine at her most sophisticated. She will also be at her most intimate. There will be no barriers. I know she will be singing ‘Smile’ in the tribute at the Oscars soon, but don’t know yet if that will be in our final shows here. She will sing Billy Joel’s ‘Lullaby,’ which she sang on Oprah. I introduced her to that song and have yet to see her sing it at every one of our rehearsals without her crying. She really sings that to the new twins. Without doubt, every time she sings ‘Lullaby,’ it’s the most emotional experience of my life -- and I’ve had a very full life with every superstar imaginable.”

 

[...]

 

And Gary teased: “People will be shocked when they see the show. It’s a big show -- even bigger and better than before. She’ll start on the stage on Monday when I’ll see it all come together for the first time, but the snippets I have already seen are simply staggering.”

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/blogs/luxe-l...and-there-noth/

[Tyler1991]

Wow!!! 25 songs!!! TWENTY FIVE! I'm suddenly not pissed about MJ Tribute and Bonds song taking up spaces but 25 songs w/ only 1 hr 40 minute makes me think we'll be getting a lot of medleys and cut songs?

 

I find it interesting they address "Smile". Hmmm, I hope it's not in the show lol.

[mirage]

I thought AND was big, but reading those comments about the new show makes me all hyped up!!

 

I get the feeling that we really get a Celine show, intimate and yet so big!!

Like AND this one will be 1 of the highlights in her career I think! And yes 25 songs!!!! Consider there will be a medley there will be plenty of space of her own old/new repertoire!! I'm dying to know which James bond song she will sing!!

But who knows after a few months they will change the setlist, she has enough time between the blocks of shows this time!

 

I guess Smile would be part of the MJ thing? I'm not so fond of that song but who knows after the oscars!!!

And I'll think Lullaby would be emotional it's better then IIC!!

[bruno_oliveira]

more space i think it doesnt mean a bigger screen because that was still a huge one.

 

what they might have done is changing how they use it.

 

bringing more live cameras, live effects to the video, and less video set/ scenery.

 

this is a way of bringing more celine to us.

 

i think before she only appeared really in speeches and during some of the songs....

 

that company called moment factory is known by interactivity in live video.

 

im waiting too,

[bruno_oliveira]

http://vimeo.com/7689391

[Nmj]

cant wait to read reviews the first tuesday night

[anewdayhascome]

where is it stated that there'll be 25 songs?

[ladylindsey]

Lullaby is breathtaking

[Celinefanatic07]

http://www.lvrj.com/columnists/normclarke/...94.html?ref=894

 

 

Merci beaucoup!!!!!!!

 

And I can't wait to see her! I dont mind what she.does,.no matter what

Shes always unbelievable! Plus (for me) she could go up to the stage and FART and I wouldn't care! I just want to be

There!!!! This show will be INCREDIBLE!!!!!

[Celine Fan 77]

There is going to be an orchestral medley featuring It's all coming back to me now and The power of love

[mirage]

Put that in spoiler tags please!!?? Not everybody wants to know ! ;-)

[couldawouldashoulda]

Why put it in spoiler tags in this thread? It's called "What FACTS do we know for sure?". Surely anyone coming here to this thread wants specific infomation.