Caesars books Bette Midler for 200 shows

Bette Midler is going Vegas in a big way. Next February she’ll begin a two-year, 200-show engagement at the Coliseum, the 4,100-seat venue at Caesars Palace. The production will be huge -- the stage will be 120-feet across, with a massive video wall -- but Midler said Wednesday that “I have no idea what the show will be but it be fabulous, tacky and glorious. There will be a lot of laughter and a few tears. And I think we will have some half-dressed people up there too.”

Midler will be taking the spot left open by the December closing of “A Brand New Day,” the Celine Dion show that began its run five years ago. Midler praised Dion’s show as well as Elton John’s elaborate Vegas production, but she said her show would be more rollicking.

“A lot of the shows in Vegas now could be playing on PBS. There’s not a lot of comedy in the Vegas music shows now and that’s what I do best.”

The Divine Miss M, who turns 62 in December, said this two-year run seemed like a career finish line. “This is the end, kind of, this show feels like everything my career has been leading up to.” Tickets go on sale today through Ticketmaster.