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Thursday, July 30 at 2:00 PM, one of the final July shows at Sphere runs in the afternoon slot — a good moment to catch The Wizard of Oz before the calendar flips into August on the Las Vegas Strip.Sphere's production re-recorded the 1939 orchestral score and rebuilt the visual track using AI to fill […]

Wednesday, July 29 at 8:00 PM, Sphere closes out the month with a late evening show of The Wizard of Oz — atmospheric fog fills the Haunted Forest sequence while towering fire bursts light up the Wizard's chamber after dark on the Las Vegas Strip.This production uses Sphere's physical effect systems at their fullest: wind […]

Tuesday, July 28 at 5:00 PM, The Wizard of Oz at Sphere keeps its run strong through the end of July with an evening show that puts the production's staying power in Las Vegas on full display.The show has drawn more than 2.2 million tickets since opening, and the reasons are not hard to find: […]

Monday, July 27 at 2:00 PM, the final week of July opens at Sphere with a weekday afternoon show that tends to run at a more relaxed pace than the weekend crowds bring to the Las Vegas venue.The Wizard of Oz at Sphere uses Google AI-generated imagery, live pyrotechnics, infrasound haptic seats, and Sphere's 16K […]

Sunday, July 26 opens at 11:00 AM for another morning run of The Wizard of Oz at Sphere — a good pick as the month winds toward its final week in Las Vegas.Sphere's morning shows carry the same full 4D production as any evening: the tornado arrives with real wind, snow falls over the audience […]

Saturday, July 25 at Sphere — the Into the Millennium residency's second Saturday and a full showcase for what the Backstreet Boys and this venue do together. The pop vocal group has performed here more than 35 times to sold-out crowds, and each Saturday night the room hits its highest energy of the week.Their five-part […]

Saturday, July 25 at 2:00 PM, peak Las Vegas summer brings a full house to Sphere for The Wizard of Oz — and the production scales to whatever crowd the afternoon delivers.This is a 4D film built specifically for Sphere's capabilities: over 1,800 AI-generated visual elements, live physical effects at every major scene, and a […]

The Into the Millennium residency hits Friday, July 24 at Sphere — the back half of the second week's back-to-back run. The Backstreet Boys built their reputation on radio-ready pop with genuine vocal craft, and the Millennium album gave them four globally recognized singles that still move crowds a quarter-century later.At Sphere, the production surrounds […]

Friday, July 24 at 2:00 PM — if you have not been inside Sphere yet, The Wizard of Oz is the production this Las Vegas venue was built to host.The 16K display curves over and around the audience for 160,000 square feet of total coverage, while infrasound haptic seats, 4D wind arrays, atmospheric fog, and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]