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Cirque de Celine19 March 2003Las Vegas – As reported by the Los Angeles Times: ``On Jan. 1, 2000, the story goes, Celine Dion, exhausted from touring and wanting to be a stay-at-home wife and mother, came to Las Vegas with her manager-husband and 250 of their family and friends. The couple renewed their wedding vows. They also saw "O," the Cirque du Soleil spectacular on water at the Bellagio, and so moved and flabbergasted was Dion that she came to an inevitable conclusion: She wanted one for herself. She's getting one. In "A New Day," which is what her new Vegas extravaganza is called, Dion, strapped to a harness, soars 50 feet in the air, to the top of the massive proscenium, as she belts out the love ballad "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." It seems safe to say Barbra Streisand wouldn't try this once, much less 200 times a year, which is what Dion is contracted to do. She will perform five nights a week for the next three years, in a 4,100-seat theater built for her by Caesars Palace. Her dressing room in the Colosseum is 2,600 square feet, with a formal dining room. Dion's not getting her own circus, but something dreamier -- a show "by Dragone." That's Franco Dragone, the Belgian conjurer behind "O" and "Mystère" in Vegas and eight other Cirque shows that have either toured or played permanently somewhere in the world. |