Las Vegas Weekly

October 15, 2009 · 3:12 PM

Photo Gallery: Garth Brooks, Steve Wynn make concert run official

By Robin Leach

Garth Brooks and Steve Wynn.

Photo: Scott Harrison/Retna/www.harrisonphotos.com

Beginning shortly before 2 p.m., we started tweeting the Garth Brooks and Steve Wynn press conference at Twitter.com/Robin_Leach (spelling and punctuation have been corrected for the non-Twitterverse!):

*Forty Nashville journalists on flight with Garth landed 20 minutes ago. Very large turnout of media in Encore Theater. Real-time reports start at 2 p.m.

*Garth and Steve onstage. Garth removes Stetson. Talked about it getting started over dinner. And wanted to see the room.

*Bette Midler and Steve watched Garth play the room privately. Bette was screaming when they watched him. Wanted to do a second.

*Steve said he had to buy plane to shuttle Garth back and forth to Oklahoma so he can still take kids to school. Girls now 17, 15 and 13.

*Garth says his life won’t change. Just he and a guitar. He says lucky to get the plane to make it work. Is it a five-year deal?

*A one-man show. I am the band, he says. A chance to slowly get back. “I never played a place like this built with this sound.”

*Ticket price will be $125. One price. No scalpers. Start Dec. 11. Jan. 1, 2, 3 and 4. Fifteen weeks. One show Fridays, two shows Saturdays, and one show Sundays.

*Then flies through the night to be back with daughters for school Monday morning. Then returns to Las Vegas after school drop-off on Friday morning.

*Garth says it will be an unscripted show and different every night. Wife Trisha Yearwood will be among the special guests from time to time.

*Says wife and three kids approved deal. Wynn will be only place you see him for five years. No touring and won’t even think about it until youngest goes to college.

*Steve says Beyonce wants to come back when Garth is not playing. Theater will be used only for special moments.

*Garth says he’s made his teamwork foundation a charity component of the contract. Tickets on sale 8 a.m. Oct. 24.

*Garth says after kids go off to college, Trisha will do Broadway for a year as part of their give-and-take relationship.

Check back for photos from the press conference. Meantime, click HERE for our story this morning.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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