Arts and Entertainment, Travel
Chrissie Hynde, concerts, Las Vegas, MGM International, Monte Carlo Resort and Casino, music, Park Theater, Stevie Nicks, The Pretenders
December 18, 2016
On December 17, 2016, Stevie Nicks was the first headlining performer at the grand opening of the Park Theater at Monte Carlo Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. The sold-out show at the 5,200-seat venue also featured a performance from the Pretenders.
According to a Monte Carlo press release, Nicks was presented with an honorary key to the theater. She also autographed a backstage wall, to start a tradition for all Park Theater performers to come. At the concert, Nicks performed songs from her career with Fleetwood Mac, as well as some of her solo hits, including “Edge of Seventeen” and “Wild Heart.” She and Pretenders lead singer Chrisse Hynde also sang the duet “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around,” a song originally recorded by Nicks and Tom Petty. Nicks concluded the concert with Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide,” which she dedicated to MGM Resorts International executives Bill Hornbuckle and Richard Sturm for inviting Nicks to be a “part of history” as the first headliner to perform at Park Theater.
In 2017, other artists who will headline shows at the theater include Cher, Ricky Martin and Bruno Mars.
The premiere of Park Theater is the first in a series of plans to reinvent the Monte Carlo, which is owned by MGM Resorts International. According to a press release, the Monte Carlo’s transformation, which will take place over the next two years, “will include two distinct hotel experiences: a Las Vegas version of Sydell Group’s famed NoMad Hotel and the launch of a luxury hotel named Park MGM.”
Each will have redesigned guest rooms and new food/beverage offerings, including the Italian food marketplace Eataly.
The Park Theater is one of two big U.S. venue openings for MGM Resorts International this month. MGM National Harbor, a $1.4 billion resort and casino, opened in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on December 8, 2016.