The Wizard of Oz is Coming to the Las Vegas Sphere

Thanks to the first Wicked movie and its upcoming sequel, there’s immoderate Wizard of Oz fever going around. The archetypal 1939 movie celebrated its 85th day past twelvemonth up of Wicked, and present it’s getting the spotlight erstwhile much acknowledgment to the Las Vegas Sphere.

Beginning successful August, the venue volition supply a “fully immersive experience” for Wizard of Oz that volition play connected the Sphere’s 160,000-square ft screen. Made successful collaboration with Google, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Magnopus, this caller mentation of the movie volition beryllium “enhanced” with existent exertion portion “maintaining the integrity of the original.” Sphere hasn’t elaborate what immersive elements volition beryllium featured yet.

The movie is portion of Sphere’s caller absorption connected archetypal amusement extracurricular of concerts and unrecorded events, and is the archetypal older movie to get an immersive expereince from the Vegas destination. According to Sphere Entertainment CEO Jim Dolan, the immersive experiences volition supply “a diverse  slate that leverages Sphere’s powerfulness arsenic an experiential medium.” Both Wizard and its successor acquisition From the Edge are hoped to propulsion the company’s imaginativeness “in antithetic ways.”

If that sounds breathtaking to you, the Wizard of Oz will unfastened astatine the Sphere connected August 28.

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