As at Sands Event Center, Philadelphia’s Electric Factory and even flat-floored arenas such as Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center, the drawback is that if someone very tall is seated ahead of you, you’re going to have an impeded view.īut the stage at The Xcite Center was elevated enough that even from a distance, the sightline was good.

The seating is divided into three sections of up to 30 rows, all on a flat floor. The room is wide and short – meaning all of the seats are relatively close to the stage. The seats are on tracks – similar to those used in Musikfest’s outdoor Steel Stage main venue – meaning they can be removed or rearranged for other events. Its seats are padded on both the seats and backs, with retractable arm rests. It also will be used as banquet space for casino events, he said. In addition to concerts, that will include boxing, mixed martial arts, festivals and other events. The venue will be used up to three times per week, with 80 to 100 acts and events in its first year, Ricci said. The Xcite Center offers state-of-the-art sound and three 16-by-9-foot giant video screens. 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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