When a headliner cancels a Las Vegas Strip residency, the fans with show tickets are the most inconvenienced.
Ticketholders can usually get a refund for the tickets for their canceled show or exchange them for a rescheduled performance. If they’ve booked a room at one of the Strip’s hotels, it’s pretty easy to cancel or reschedule a reservation.
However, it can get expensive if an out-of-town ticketholder has booked a non-refundable airline ticket and doesn’t have travel insurance.
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Las Vegas Strip headliners have already canceled or postponed residency shows in 2025 and several were canceled in 2024.
Some of the most prominent residency postponements in 2024 included Adele’s “Weekends With Adele,” which rescheduled 10 shows set for March 1-30, 2024, and moved them to Oct. 25 to Nov. 30.
Singer Christina Aguilera postponed two shows on Jan. 5-6, 2024, at Voltaire in Apollo Global Management’s The Venetian Resort Las Vegas and rescheduled those shows for April 12-13, 2024. Aguilera also extended her residency for an additional 10 shows, ending on Aug. 3.
Legendary rock band Santana canceled the first eight shows of its 2025 residency at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, from Jan. 22 to Feb. 2, due to frontman Carlos Santana breaking a finger in an accidental fall at his vacation home in Hawaii. The band did not reschedule the shows but still has eight shows planned for May 2025.
Mötley Crüe canceled its residency shows that were scheduled to begin in March at Dolby Live at the Park MGM on the Las Vegas Strip. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation)
Mötley Crüe postpones Vegas residency shows
MGM Resorts International’s (MGM) Dolby Live at the Park MGM was ready to host legendary hard rock band Mötley Crüe for its first Las Vegas Strip residency in 12 years but had to cancel all 11 shows scheduled in March and April 2025 because of a medical issue.
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Mötley Crüe revealed in an Instagram post that it was forced to cancel the shows and reschedule most of them for September 2025 after lead vocalist Vince Neil’s doctors advised the singer that he required a medical procedure.
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“To all the Crüeheads who were looking forward to see us this spring, I’m truly sorry. My health is my top priority so I can bring you the awesome shows you deserve, and I can’t wait to return to the stage. Thank you for all the well wishes that keep reaching me. Your support means more than you know,” Neil said in the post.
The band has rescheduled 10 of the 11 residency performances for Sept. 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 24, 26, 27, Oct. 1, and 3, 2025, with tickets available at Ticketmaster.com. Tickets from the original spring residency dates will be honored for the new show dates.
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Under the original terms of the residency, a portion of ticket proceeds will be donated to Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth through Mötley Crüe’s Giveback Initiative and Live Nation.
The original 11 residency shows were scheduled for March 28 and 29, April 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 16, 18, and 19.
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“Please join us in wishing Vince a speedy recovery. We are looking forward for him to get well again and to take over Vegas together in September. We can’t wait to see you all out there, and thank you for your understanding and support in the meantime,” Neil’s bandmates Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, and John 5 wrote on Instagram.
Mötley Crüe’s residency follows its October 2024 Hollywood Takeover shows at Troubadour, The Roxy, and Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, Calif. The band also appeared in October at Aftershock 2024 in Sacramento.
The band last performed residencies on the Las Vegas Strip at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in 2012 and 2013.
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