ENTERTAINMENT: Celine returns in March … of 2011

  Fans have to wait a year to see the show, but not to buy tickets for Celine Dion’s long-expected return to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace next year.
  Tickets go on sale Friday for shows launching March 15 of 2011. The show will be different this time, with the first sign of departure from “A New Day” being a 31-piece orchestra and band onstage.
  “With the orchestra and the band we’re going to be able to perform our songs like never before,” Dion said in a statement released today. “The repertoire is going to be extraordinary ... a mix of timeless Hollywood classics, along with all the favorites that my fans like to hear me sing.”
  The Canadian superstar signed on for another three-year hitch in the Colosseum, which needs new anchor tenants after the recent departure of Bette Midler and the questionable future commitment of Cher.
  But the singer’s husband-manager, Rene Angelil, told the Toronto Sun his wife will do about 70 shows a year. That’s become more the norm for big-name headliners such as Barry Manilow and Cher. Dion’s original Colosseum venture launched with 200 annual shows in 2003, but she reined in her schedule to 160 when that proved too taxing.
  Colosseum officials have said for months that they will be happy to have Dion back when she is ready. The singer toured for a year after “A New Day” closed in December 2007.
  The singer’s career plans of late apparently revolve around her attempts to conceive a second child through in vitro fertilization. She is expected to discuss that as well as the new show venture today on Oprah Winfrey’s show, which airs locally at 2 p.m. on KLAS-TV, Channel 8.
 The ticket price range of $55 to $250 (before taxes and service charges) are $22 less expensive on the low end and $25 more on the high end as “A New Day.” Tickets go sale at 10 a.m. Friday at Caesars and Ticketmaster outlets.