Bye bye, Brit: Inside the final show of Britney Spears’ 4-year Las Vegas residency (people.com).
After four years as one of the top acts on one of the world’s most famous streets, Britney Spears has wrapped her residency show on the legendary Las Vegas Strip. “It’s bittersweet,” she said on Instagram before the last performance.
The “Britney: Piece of Me” show starting at Planet Hollywood in December 2013 hinting that she may retire after what was initially a two-year Vegas residency (Pick of the Week 8th Dec. 2013).
Originally slated for a two-year run, the pop extravaganza was extended for two more years after the show sold out time and time again.
And why was that, what brought the at the time somewhat passé for pop culture Brit-Brit back en vogue?
In capping off her final show on New Year’s Eve, Spears did what she’s done for four years: She delivered her hits. For about 100 minutes, Spears was nonstop, dancing around the stage seductively when she wasn’t backstage for one of her many costume changes.
Rather than making a scene of herself and her minge getting out of vehicles wearing no undies for paparazzi keen to snap to grab the low hanging fruit pop culture eagerly gorges itself on with relish at someone else’s indignity.
“Four years, who knew,” Spears said as she left the stage for the last time. However, there is a real possibility that Spears could be returning to the desert again. As her final show grew near, chatter in entertainment circles suggested that Spears would eventually sign on for another Las Vegas residency in the near future.
Well, with Vegas residencies working out so well for Mariah Carey, J.Lo, and now Lady Gaga signing up for her’s too (Latest Picks 20th Dec. 2017) with shows—and without the city to city bustle inherent with touring—being where the real money is in the streaming or just downloaded for free digital age (forbes.com, Jul. 2003), with at Brit-Brit’s Piece of Me spectacular, being up to $855 a ticket, perhaps retirement can wait.
Updated 14th June 2018
For sure, retirement can wait:
Britney Spears to return to Las Vegas for £380,000 per show—and she won’t have to sing every note (mirror.co.uk).
The star and her team are in advanced talks with The Park Theater at The Monte Carlo to come back in 2019—which will tie in with the 21st anniversary of her debut hit Hit Me Baby One More Time.
She’s set to rake in $500,000 (£380,000) per show, starting with an initial two-year run, making her the highest-paid woman on the Strip.
Allowing her to be somewhat blasé regards Caesars Entertainment bosses decision not to renew her Planet Hollywood Piece Of Me residency pocketing $400,000 (£303,000) a show. And she can certainly put all that fuss over lip syncing behind her:
“Her show is more of a performance so she won’t have to sing all the lyrics.
“It will be reworked from Piece Of Me, and built around the anniversary of her debut hit Hit Me Baby.”
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