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• Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (MSG Entertainment) announced that Randy Fibiger has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Bookings and Josephine Vaccarello has been named Senior Vice President, MSG Live & Business Operations. These newly created roles will ensure that all live entertainment bookings are streamlined across MSG Entertainment’s portfolio of venues: Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden, the Beacon Theatre and The Chicago Theatre.
Fibiger has been with MSG since 2009 and was most recently VP of Concerts. He will now oversee all concert bookings across MSG Entertainment’s portfolio of venues and for Boston Calling. Fibiger will directly book Madison Square Garden, while supervising the bookings team focused on relationship building with artists, managers, agents and promoters while also focusing on residencies, multi-night and multi-city bookings, and more.
In her newly expanded role, Ms. Vaccarello, most recently Senior Vice President, Live will now oversee the strategy and business operations for the Live business, while continuing to be responsible for family entertainment and performing arts, venue tours and special events. Across all areas of the live business, Vaccarello will focus on optimizing the use of MSG Entertainment’s five venues and developing bookings strategies that help drive growth.
Both Fibiger and Vaccarello continue to report to Darren Pfeffer, Executive Vice President, Live, MSG Entertainment, who remarked, “In elevating and expanding these two key roles within Live, we are ensuring that we are able to serve the industry and our fans in the best way possible. Josephine and Randy are instrumental to our live entertainment business. Their relationships within the industry and expertise across all areas make them integral in leading our business operations and bookings groups, respectively, ensuring MSG Entertainment continues to raise the bar in creating exceptional moments for artists and fans alike.”
Moving forward, Peter Mongillo, Director, Live, MSG Entertainment; and Jeanine Kalikow, Sr. Manager, Bookings, MSG Entertainment, will report to Fibiger. Mongillo will be responsible for booking Hulu Theater at MSG and The Chicago Theatre; Kalikow will book the Beacon Theatre. A new Director yet to be hired will book Radio City Music Hall and also report to Fibiger.
Pictured (l-r), Sunday night backstage as Foo Fighters officially reopened Madison Square Garden: Foo Fighters’ Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins and Dave Grohl; MSG’s Randy Fibiger and Josephine Vaccarello; and Foo Fighters’ Rami Jaffee and Chris Shiflett. [Photo credit: Gus Brandt]
