Billy Joel to ‘Open’ New Stage at Fallsview Casino in Canada
Technically, the careen stripe Live opened the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) Stage at Canada’s Fallsview Casino on October 29. But now that the new Niagara Falls Falls concert locus has a real bountiful shooter lined up, it’s billing Billy Book of Joel as its “official” opening night creative person on Feb. 25, 2023.
Tickets to check the Piano Man – which pop at CAD$175 (US$132) – depart on sales agreement at 10 a.m. EST on Nov 25 via ticketmaster.com.
OLG is real excited to show window the spectacular young OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino with an unbelievable award-winning performing artist similar Billy Book of Joel for the grand gap celebration,” said Duncan Hannay, chairwoman and CEO of OLG, which owns the Fallsview Casino. “This state-of-the-art, 5,000-seat amusement center of attention will haulage world-class entertainment that will raise the receive for residents and the growing figure of visitors to the Niagara Falls neighborhood for years to come.”
OLG is a governmental federal agency that manages a slew of gaming operations for Canada’s to the highest degree populous province. For the past times 47 years, it has generated more than CAD$55 1000000000000 (US$42 billion) for Ontario. That funded wellness care, addiction services, and bread and butter for recreational athletics.
The Longest Time
Costing CAD$130 (US$99.3 million), the OLG Stage at the Fallsview Casino was actually completed to a greater extent than two years ago. Its foremost concert was supposed to make been Brad Paisley on April 2, 2020, but the pandemic had another schedule inward mind. Government restrictions in Ontario kept the cassino closed until July 2021. According to the Niagara Falls Review, problems with the acoustics kept the concert hall shut longer.
The Niagara Fallsview Casino sits simply N of the iconic holidaymaker destination on the Canadian side. Opened inwards 2004, it’s the largest casino inward Canada, featuring more than 3,500 one-armed bandit machines and 130 gaming tables. Its CAD$1 one thousand million (US$764.1 million) expression cost remains the largest investment funds the Ontario governance has made inwards the Niagara River area.
When it opened, the Fallsview’s 1,500-seat Avalon Theatre was sufficient in size to vie for the smaller musical comedy and comedy acts whose tours typically circled the area. Among its upcoming slating of performers are The Monkees (Celebrated past Micky Dolenz) from April 25-27, 2023, and George II Thorogood and the Destroyers on May 17, 2023.
Then, inwards 2003, the Seneca Nation of Indians opened their Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino directly crossways the Niagara River River on the US side. Featuring a 2,400-seat events center, inward gain to a to a greater extent adumbrate 440-seat theater, it proved that to a greater extent of the A-list was attainable than previous conservative estimates predicted.
“From the time we opened the conversation about bringing a world-class venue to Niagara, we knew the OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino was sledding to enhance the entertainment landscape of Niagara,” Richard Taylor, chair of Niagara River Casinos, said inwards a statement. “Today, with this proclamation of a confessedly John Rock and Roll Charles Martin Hall of Famer and ethnical ikon as our grand chess opening act, we are achieving that goal.”
Joel, 73, has sold more than 160 trillion records worldwide, won half dozen Grammy Awards – including the prestigious Grammy Legend Award – and has been inducted into the Songwriters Radclyffe Hall of Fame and John Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He is a 2013 receiver of the Jack Kennedy Center Honors, the nation’s highest purity for influencing American civilization through the arts, and he became the 6th recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song inwards 2014.