Adele’s Las Vegas Residency Uses Seat-Fillers, But Not for the Reason You Think

The Sun recently reported that superstar vocaliser Adele was on the Q.T. employing “seat-fillers” to mask hollow seats at her Caesars Palace residency. Quoting unnamed “insiders at the Colosseum” with the scoop, the British people rag asserted that some performances aren’t draftsmanship a good audience, and seat-fillers are necessary because “the early exact to see to it her sing has waned – and that is reflected inward the cost of tickets.”

This debate is weak for a pair of reasons, which is why Casino.org chose not to pick upwardly the initial report. Firstly, resale tickets are tickets that have got already sold. Their prices get zero in correlativity to locale vacancies. Secondly, after every bingle “Weekends with Adele” ticket sold come out last-place summer, front-row seats were beingness offered on Stubhub for $41,280 each. Now, many put up be found for around $4,000.

Does $4,000 a seat really suggest a waning of interest group inwards Adele, or just now a list of greedy individuals coming to grips with the realism of marketplace forces?

What About the Seat-Filling?

As it turns out, The Sun was part correct about the seat-fillers. They are used, according to a repudiation of the Sun story past Saint John the Apostle Katsilometes, amusement columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. But they’re non used to spread over up for shamefully unsold Adele seats.

According to Katz, Caesars Palace will call up on employees – and those who act for partner companies – to occupy seats when it appears that ticket-holders can’t do the show.

No-shows get become increasingly commonplace inward Las Vegas since COVID-19, but especially after thousands of southwestern United States flights into Las Vegas were canceled o'er the holidays because of the unsuccessful person of the airline’s obsolete booking system.

Last-Minute Tickets

As farther grounds of its theory of waning Adele demand, The Sun also cited the fact that it’s possible “for some fans to nab a last-minute just the ticket for just now a C dollars or so.”

Yes, that’s also true. But again, it’s non because of waning demand. Non-Caesars Palace employees were ever able to purchase same-day tickets inwards person at the locale loge office. Typically, a few tickets suit useable for every show that make either been canceled or returned to the box seat office.

Relying on this method is far from a guarantee. But hey, you’re inwards Las Vegas, right?

Adele continues to perform at Caesars Palace on weekends though March 25. All tickets are sold out. (But did we really need to narrate you that?)