Author: Chris Willman / Source: Variety
It’s a good thing isn’t getting paid by the word. Her big reveal in Las Vegas Thursday night, at the end of a breathlessly narrated half-hour live stream on Ellen DeGeneres’ YouTube channel, was… the sight of Spears finally appearing amid some pyrotechnics, and then walking down to her limo without uttering a single breath herself about why she was there.
After days of build-up, it was left to confused fans to piece together what their heroine had just telepathically spilled the beans on.Actually, the truth was already out there, for those who’d been reading leaks about what Spears was up to. What it came down to was that she was moving “a couple doors down,” as one local news announcer put it. No longer will she ply her wares at Planet Hollywood, where this past New Year’s Eve she wrapped up a four-year residency that put long-term, live-in pop superstar gigs on the map in Vegas. She’s getting a raise by moving over to the 5,200-seat Park Theater in 2019, where, England’s Daily Mail had already reported, she will get a bump up from $400,000 a show to $507,000 per concert. Money talks, even if Britney doesn’t.
That doesn’t quite make Spears the highest paid performer in Vegas, but it does put her in a small, elite club of stars who can command paydays of upwards of half-a-million dollars per show. As previously reported, Lady Gaga’s 74 dates at the Park MGM are valued at nearly $100 million, with the pop star clearing a million-plus dollars per performance to lock in $75 million over two years.
Gaga’s post-Christmas residency is going to suck a lot of the media oxygen out of the room as it approaches, so it was incumbent upon Spears to get as much attention as she can now. That sense…
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