Foxwoods Resort Casino has two live entertainment spaces: the Fox Theater and the Grand Theater. (All photos courtesy Foxwoods) With business good, resort continues to look at adding a third Foxwoods Resort Casino opened in 1992 in Mashantucket, Conn. It opened its first venue, the 1,370-capacity Fox Theater, in 2003. “Shows kept selling out,” said Monique Sebastian, who has been the vice president of entertainment and entertainment marketing for five years and with the property for 15 years. “The demands of the market were saying we could sustain a bigger venue while running the Fox Theater as well. We wanted to do more acts on a grander scale with higher-end productions. We wanted more seats, more people and to bring more traffic into the building.” They wanted to do Broadway. Big concerts. Cirque shows. With that mandate, the nearly 4,000-capacity Grand Theater was opened in 2008. “There is not much… Continue Reading Foxwoods’ Two-Theater Strategy

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