1st MSG Sphere Show in Las Vegas Announced
The firstly tickets sold for the MSG Sphere inward Las Vegas will non be for the start-off of U2’s residency. Those dates have ease in time to live announced. They testament be for Postcard from Earth, a “multi-sensory storytelling” production localize to run several times per day, and they testament proceed on cut-rate sale Wednesday, Apr 12.
Postcard from Earth is the first of several of what Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSGE) refers to as “Sphere Experiences.” These would follow productions tailor-produced by Hollywood A-listers to make replete(p) vantage of the venue’s 160K square-foot, 16K-by-16K wraparound LED screen, custom spacial audio frequency system, and 4D capabilities enabled through tactile seats and environmental effects.
Specifics nearly Postcard from Earth are scant. An MSGE pressure waiver on Tues revealed only that it is allay inward production, that it testament debut inwards October, and that it testament bid “a unique linear perspective on the magnificent beauty of life-time on Earth.” However, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has reported that the film testament live directed past Daron Aronofsky, whose The Whale won an Oscar shoemaker's last month for best thespian Brendan Fraser.
“We are redefining the future of entertainment through and through Sphere,” St. James the Apostle L. Dolan, MSGE’s executive director chairman and CEO, said in the statement. “Sphere provides a unexampled spiritualist for directors, artists, and brands to make experiences that cannot be seen or told anywhere else, and Sphere Experiences are just now ace of the slipway we testament employment the venue’s technologies to wage the senses and send audiences to places both existent and imagined. Postcard from Earth testament exercise set a unexampled debar for multi-sensory storytelling possibilities, and we seem forrad to having audiences go through it at Sphere this fall.”
Not Just a Concert Venue
Recent internet reports feature speculated that the Sphere is having incommode reservation A-list medicine acts for residencies for II reasons: 1) to the highest degree acts don’t want visuals overshadowing their music; and 2) these acts don’t want to drop millions producing visuals for the MSGE Sphere that can’t follow reused at other concert venues.
So, basically, MSGE wants everyone — especially its electric current and potential investors — to cognize that its $1.88B young concert venue is to a greater extent than just now a concert venue; that it will generate consistent revenue between concert gigs. According to its push release, Sphere Experiences will running game multiple times per day, yr round.
Tickets for the 1st screenings of Postcard from Earth, staring at $49, go away on sales agreement at 10 a.m. PT on Wednesday, Apr 12 through and through thespherevegas.com.