Coldplay coming to Atlantic City?
When Revel Entertainment opens Atlantic City’s first new casino resort in nine years on April 2, CEO Kevin DeSanctis will be borrowing an entertainment page right out of his old Mohegan Sun playbook.
Revel’s guests can expect to find free entertainment in a venue known as The Social, an open, 700-capacity room smack in the center of the gaming floor.
The room will mirror the Wolf Den, a 400-seat showroom in the middle of the casino action at the gaming hall DeSanctis opened in 1996 for Sun International, which operates the Native American property for the Mohegan Indian tribe.
“I think we’ll program [The Social] the way Mohegan’s Wolf Den was originally envisioned,” DeSanctis told reporters last week during a conference call to discuss Revel’s debut in six weeks.
“I always liked the concept of not charging in that environment, other than you probably have to buy a couple drinks,” he added.
There will occasionally be “name” artists performing in The Social, he said. Although they won’t be A-list entertainers, DeSanctis stopped short of labeling them B-list.
“I think we’ll have some surprises in there,” he said. “Yes, it will be a lot of musical groups. But there’ll be some other things there. ... I also think on weekends, when there’s an awful lot of people in town, we want to create some surprises there. But I wouldn’t want to be confined to the B-level entertainer thought process.”
A check of the latest Wolf Den lineup at Mohegan Sun shows a broad range of acts that skew across a variety of age demographics and performance genres.
Artists scheduled there over the next few months include former Righteous Brother Bill Medley, the Irish rock band The Saw Doctors, House of Pain front man Everlast, country singer Phil Vassar and blues singer Shemekia Copeland.
Over the years, Wolf Den crowds have also seen free shows by artists including America, Eddie Money, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer, all of whom have played Atlantic City on a regular basis and commanded ticket prices ranging from $25 to $50 or more.
The Social will be one of Revel’s three major entertainment venues.
Akron, Ohio rockers The Black Keys have been booked for Revel.
Wiedmaier’s room won’t be the only place to grab a steak at Revel. Chef Marc Forgione, one of Revel’s two TV Food Network “Iron Chefs” (Philly-based Jose Garces is the other) will be opening American Cut, which he described as his spin on a “classic steakhouse.”
Impeccably dressed in a tailored suit and a fashionably wide and colorful tie, Howard Weiss straddles the top two steps leading onto the small stage at The Pool at Harrah’s. The all-weather tropical hangout has been transformed from its daytime persona as a haven for the hotel’s middle-aged hotel guests into its pulse-pounding nightclub configuration.
"It was a little bit of a culture shock coming from Las Vegas, as you can imagine. But then when I actually spent some time [in Atlantic City] and spent some time in competitors' casinos, I was pleasantly surprised and I feel that, you know, being involved in Revel is a very exciting piece of history for Atlantic City and I think will change how people look and perceive the market."
Revel reportedly outbid another Atlantic City Casino to book the popular pop rock band, but it’s unlikely they’ll actually christen the new showroom.
Monday, April 2, was announced as the starting date of an eight-week preview to Atlantic City’s forthcoming $2.4-billion beachfront destination, Revel
While some unforeseen snares related to the rocky economy have made the grand-opening of the Revel casino project even more anticipated than when it first broke ground, visitors can now get a peek as to what the property will offer via a visitor’s lounge, scheduled to open today, Friday, July 1.
Revel Casino stays ahead of the curve when it comes to keeping those who want to remain “in the know” informed of its progress in Atlantic City.
The newest webisode from the fourth-coming mega-resort, “The Idea Behind Revel: A New Kind of Destination,” reveals more of the story behind the production. The video includes intimate looks into the planning, vision and details of the highly anticipated destination.
The firm's CEO, Neil Moffit, recently told the 'NY Post' that "this casino could easily be in the upper echelons of Vegas."
Revel continues to back up its claim that the property will be a mega-casino complex with the announcement that Food Network Iron Chef Jose Garces, acclaimed chef and owner of eight restaurants in Philadelphia, and four more in Chicago and Scottsdale, Ariz. is set to open the doors to three highly anticipated restaurants at Revel.
Kevin DeSanctis, Revel CEO: "Clearly we want to go after the type of artist that can draw 5,500 people, and when you get into that genre, if you will, there’s probably only about 20 acts that can do that."
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1. j durante said... on Feb 22, 2012 at 11:09AM
“really looking forward to staying and playing”