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Sunday, July 12 opens at 11:00 AM at Sphere with The Wizard of Oz, and the morning slot has a particular quality in Las Vegas: you walk in off the bright summer morning and step directly into the sepia Kansas of 1939.The production then expands that world across 160,000 square feet of 16K wraparound screen, […]

Monday, July 13 at 2:00 PM offers a rare afternoon weekday slot for The Wizard of Oz at Sphere — smaller crowd, same full production, nothing reduced or held back for the time of day.Sphere's infrasound haptic seats, wraparound 16K display, and live 4D effects run exactly the same for a Monday matinee as for […]

Tuesday, July 14 at 5:00 PM, The Wizard of Oz at Sphere draws a clear line between watching a film and being placed inside one — and this Las Vegas production makes that distinction unmistakably tangible.Sphere's 16K wraparound display curves up, over, and around the audience while infrasound haptic seats emit tones through your chair […]

Wednesday, July 15 runs late at Sphere with an 8:00 PM start — an evening midweek slot that puts The Wizard of Oz squarely into Las Vegas night-show territory on the Strip.The pyrotechnics in the Wizard's throne room and the towering fire bursts during the film's climactic sequences hit differently in an evening atmosphere when […]

Thursday, July 16 at 2:00 PM, Sphere's afternoon show of The Wizard of Oz gives you a few hours inside the venue's 160,000-square-foot wraparound display — the largest immersive screen in existence anywhere in the world.Google AI expanded every original 1939 frame to fill that screen, generating new imagery beyond what the original cameras captured […]

Friday, July 17 at 2:00 PM, The Wizard of Oz at Sphere starts the weekend early with a production that moves you through Kansas, the tornado, Munchkinland, and the Emerald City in full 4D on the Las Vegas Strip.Each act gets its own physical effects: leaves and wind for the tornado, butterflies in Oz, snow […]

Friday, July 17 brings Into the Millennium back to Sphere for the residency's second night — a show that has drawn over 575,000 fans through this Las Vegas venue since the run launched. The Backstreet Boys channel the pop-perfection era of their late-'90s peak: crisp harmonies, synchronized movement, and catalog depth that keeps the room […]

Saturday, July 18 at 2:00 PM, the 167,000-speaker system at Sphere lets you hear the Wizard of Oz score the way it was meant to fill a room — remastered, re-orchestrated, and directed from every point in the space around you.The production took Herbert Stothart's original 1939 compositions back to the orchestra and rebuilt them […]

The Into the Millennium residency wraps its opening weekend at Sphere on Saturday, July 18. It's a Saturday show in Las Vegas, which means a packed house with a crowd that's been building anticipation all week and arrives ready to sing every word.The Backstreet Boys — pop's most durable vocal group — use Sphere's immersive […]

Sunday, July 19 goes late with an 8:00 PM show of The Wizard of Oz at Sphere — one of the few Sunday evening slots in the entire residency run, and a rare chance to catch it at night on the Strip.Evening performances carry a particular atmosphere: Las Vegas outside, pyrotechnics and infrasound haptic seats […]

Monday, July 20 at 5:00 PM marks another week in what has become a genuinely extended Sphere run for The Wizard of Oz, still drawing Las Vegas audiences deep into the summer residency.The production uses 4D effects — real wind, fog, snow, fire, and UAV-deployed flying monkeys — alongside Sphere's 16K wraparound display and 167,000-speaker […]

Tuesday, July 21 at 5:00 PM at Sphere, the production honors Herbert Stothart's original 1939 compositions by re-recording them for a sound system that Stothart could not have imagined when he wrote the score.The orchestrations were preserved — not altered — and then pushed through Sphere Immersive Sound's 167,000 programmable speakers, which can direct any […]

Wednesday, July 22 at 8:00 PM, Sphere runs The Wizard of Oz in a late evening slot — and by this point in the summer, the production has proven it works with equal force in every time slot it occupies on the calendar.A Wednesday night crowd at Sphere in Las Vegas tends to mix visitors […]

Thursday, July 23 opens at 11:00 AM at Sphere — a morning show on a day that does not usually run that early in the summer calendar, giving you a full afternoon on the Las Vegas Strip afterward.The Wizard of Oz at Sphere is a fully produced 4D experience from the first frame: wind arrives […]

Into the Millennium returns to Sphere on Thursday, July 23 for the second week of the residency's summer Las Vegas calendar. The Backstreet Boys have been performing these songs since 1999 and they show it — the precision of five vocalists working in long-rehearsed sync is one of the things that makes this show worth […]