The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, the state-of-the-art Las Vegas showroom built for Celine Dion, is getting some new, high-profile guests. Hercules has learned that Elton John is in negotiations for a three-year, $54 million engagement beginning in 2004.

Dion completed her first run of dates at the 4,100-capacity, $95 million showplace on July 6, 2003, wrapping up 65 sellouts that grossed about $36 million. Other artists scheduled to perform at the venue include Tim McGraw, Mariah Carey and Gloria Estefan.

"We always intended for other artists to play this venue," says John Meglen, co-president of Concerts West, producers of the Dion extravaganza and promoters for the Colosseum. "There are 12 weeks a year when Celine is not playing."

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