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Prince To Set Up Shop at the Hollywood Roosevelt

Where: 7000 Hollywood Boulevard [map], Hollywood, CA, United States, 90028

The Hollywood Roosevelt is apparently turning into a Vegas casino hotel minus the casino but now with a live musical act.

The LA Times is reporting that Prince (who just finished a concert series at the Rio in Vegas) will begin a seven-week residency at the hotel starting sometime in mid-June.

On seven Friday nights starting June 15, the Roosevelt will close off its lobby at 9 p.m. Then, at 11:30 in the Blossom Room in front of 250 seated guests and an undetermined number of standing-room-only patrons, Prince (joined each week by special guests) will give a two-hour performance.

At 2 a.m., Prince's private chef will take over the kitchen of the Roosevelt's Dakota restaurant, which will morph into an after-hours dinner club. As part of a jazz ensemble, Prince will entertain diners until 4 a.m.

We wonder...will he then play basketball with guests after that?

The contracts are supposedly being finalized this week and tickets will also be available this week. But the Hollywood Roosevelt hasn't been singled out here. Prince will do a similar concert series in the Hamptons later this summer and in London. But you can expect Prince and his band to be shacking up at the hotel all summer long.

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