Top shows returning to Atlantic City
Guns N’ Roses is playing at a casino this September in the clearest sign yet that big talent is coming back.
NEW YORK >> After decades of photographing rock stars, movie stars and heads of state, Annie Leibovitz has added a business leader to her portfolio: Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi.
Leibovitz’s shot of a stylish but relatively casual Nooyi, wearing a dark sweater and pants, will appear on the cover of Nooyi’s memoir “My Life in Full,” scheduled to come out Sept. 28.
Nooyi is expected to write about her childhood in India, her experiences as an immigrant at Yale University’s business school and how she became the rare woman and person of color to reach the highest levels of corporate power.
“It is not so much that Indra is a CEO but it is who she is,” Leibovitz said in a statement Wednesday.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. >> Welcome (back) to the jungle: Guns N’ Roses is playing an Atlantic City casino this year.
The iconic hard rock band has booked two dates at the Hard Rock casino Sept. 11 and 12 in the clearest sign yet that bigname entertainment is returning to the seaside gambling resort as it emerges from the coronavirus pandemic.
The band’s current lineup includes its biggest stars, lead singer Axl Rose and guitarist Slash. Opening the shows will be Mammoth WVH, the band led by Van Halen bassist Wolfgang Van Halen, son of the late guitar legend Eddie Van Halen.
The band says the Hard Rock shows will be the “most intimate” of their tour, which normally plays huge sports stadiums. The casino’s Etess Arena has about 6,000 seats.
Tickets go on sale Friday at noon, although fan club and other presales will begin before that.
Other big-name acts are due to play Atlantic City this summer and fall, some of which were rescheduled from last year when the pandemic forced the casinos to close for 3 1/2 months, and to operate at reduced capacity even after they opened.
Those restrictions, since lifted, made it impossible to book A-list acts because only a small percentage of seats could be sold.
This year’s scheduled shows include Kiss, Toby Keith, Dierks Bentley and Pitbull, all at Hard Rock; Phish on the beach; Michael Buble at Boardwalk Hall; Jerry Seinfeld at the Borgata, and the Beach Boys and Alice Cooper in separate shows at the Ocean casino.