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Singer Celine Dion set on Vegas

LAS VEGAS -- Celine Dion leaves no doubt that she's ready to embrace Las Vegas five nights a week, 40 weeks a year until 2006 with her much-hyped new show, "A New Day."\nShe dances. She swoons. She flies. The newly muscled diva with a tomboyish haircut belts out 23 songs over more than 100 minutes in a Caesars Palace theater designed just for her.\nBut everyone in Las Vegas wants to know whether Dion, who turns 35 on March 30, can withstand the show's physical and emotional demands. Starting Tuesday, she'll hit the stage more times a year than Derek Jeter fields balls at Yankee Stadium.\nBut careers and reputations will be damaged if Dion doesn't continue to attract the masses after her premiere Tuesday, the same day she'll release a new album and appear in a CBS television special.\nCaesars Palace, which is banking on Dion to re-energize it, might have the most to lose if "A New Day" sinks like the Titanic.\nCaesars spent $95 million to create the lavish Colosseum for Dion that seats 4,100, and paid more than $30 million more to produce "A New Day"

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