One singer changed the economics of Las Vegas, and this is the room they built her to do it in. The Colosseum at Caesars Palace opened on March 25, 2003, with the premiere of Celine Dion's A New Day... - a theatre designed by Montreal's Sceno Plus and constructed by Perini Building Company at a cost north of 100 million dollars, then the most expensive entertainment venue in Las Vegas. The site carries showroom lineage: Caesars' legendary Circus Maximus Showroom, opened with the resort in 1966, and the Omnimax dome were cleared to make way once the Dion venture was struck, trading the old Vegas revue model for a purpose-built 4,100-seat concert hall wrapped in Roman aesthetics with contemporary lines. Dion's numbers rewrote the industry: A New Day... ran 717 shows from 2003 through 2007, her second residency added 424 more, and across sixteen years she performed 1,141 shows to over 4.5 million fans - proof that a superstar residency could out-earn touring and the template every artist residency in the city now follows. The supporting cast has been its own hall of fame - Elton John's Red Piano and Million Dollar Piano, Rod Stewart, Bette Midler, Mariah Carey, Reba with Brooks and Dunn - with seven of the city's ten highest-grossing residencies calling the room home and around 400,000 guests a year. A first full renovation in the summer of 2019 - timed to Dion's June farewell - replaced the 110-foot LED screen at double resolution, revamped sound, lights, seats and carpet, and installed an automated lift floor that converts the front section between full seating and general-admission standing, nudging capacity to roughly 4,300. Operational control shifted from AEG to Caesars Entertainment with Live Nation promoting, and the venue has continued as the Strip's benchmark residency house: the room an artist plays when the show is the destination, in the theatre that Celine built.

Type: Theater / Concert Hall

Address: 3570 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV, United States, 89109

Website: https://www.thecolosseum.com

Cover Charge: 1

Capacity: 4300

Opening Date: 25/03/2003

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