Why Is Adele’s Las Vegas Residency in Limbo, and Can She Still Pull It Out of the Bag? 10 Burning Questions

variety.com:

Chris Willman Music WriterNot every Las Vegas residency has to be a cast-of-dozens, song-and-dance extravaganza, although most obviously are.

When Garth Brooks settled into a five-year residency at the Wynn that lasted for 187 shows between 2009 and 2014, it was just him, wife Trisha Yearwood and (for all of the shows but the final handful) a single acoustic guitar.Many fans have said they would have been happy if a voice and guitar was all the spectacle Adele provided during her now-postponed residency that was slated to run at Caesars Palace from January through April.

Right about now, as she faces some tough decisions about rescheduling aid a growing PR crisis, a one-woman show might seem like a good idea, in retrospect, for Adele, too.

Instead, Adele went for a bells-and-whistles blowout that would have been as big as her voice — hardly the unexpected way to go for a performer undoubtedly acutely aware of the massive production values for Vegas residencies by everyone from Celine Dion and Elton John in the 2000s to Lady Gaga and Katy Perry recently.