And Ricci said the casino will continue to book “great acts at and above the level of what has been announced.”Īt 30,000-square-feet, the Xcite center is smaller than Sands Bethlehem Event Center’s 50,000 square feet and 2,550 seated capacity and 3,750 standing capacity. 27, and more sold-out shows with Rascal Flatts on March 3 and two by country music icon Reba McEntire on April 27 and 28.īut the point was well-taken: Among more than 20 shows the center has scheduled through May 19 are concerts you would expect to see at venues much larger than the 1,500-capacity Xcite Center. 14, with comedian Bill Engvall, a concert by Free and Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers on Jan. That’s debatable: the arena has a run of sold-out shows that starts tonight, Sunday, Jan. “We couldn’t have a better band opening than Chicago,” Ricci said before the red ribbon was snipped and a sold-out crowd entered the area.

Tony Ricci, chief executive officer of Greenwood Racing Inc., which owns Parx Casino in Bensalem, was at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the casino’s new Xcite Center on Saturday, surrounded by members of classic horns-rock band Chicago, which christened the center its first show that night.

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