Celine Dion has headlined Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas with 160-shows per year, since 2003. The Grammy award-winning singer’s “A New Day” show has grossed over $500 million in the $95 million, 4100-seat Colosseum, but she has announced that she will not renew her contract. In her wailing stead shall step the 61-year-old Bette Miller to over-fill those tiny, French-Canadian shoes.

Midler told the Associated Press, “I’m looking forward to it, but also I’m terrified because it’s huge. That’s giving me the vapors. At the same time, they also give you a lot of toys to play with. They give you the lifts and you can fly people in, you can fly them out. There’s all this wing space and hydraulics and stuff, and the dressing rooms are staggering. It should be an opera house somewhere in the Black Forest.”

Midler may not match Dion’s ability to sell-out every night, so she’ll run a less grueling 100 shows a year, five nights a week for 20 weeks beginning February 20th. Midler said, “That’s really what made me decide it was going to be fun… I have tremendous background singers and I always have a great band… If I get lucky, I’ll have semi-nudes. I love showgirls and I love feathers and sequins, so I’m hoping there’ll be plenty of that.”

Caesar’s Palace officials are likely hoping it’s nothing like her performance in “Hocus Pocus”, in which she played, well, kind of herself.

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