“Wicked: For Good” made another $93 million at the box office last weekend.
When the original “The Wizard of Oz” was released in 1939, theater-goers were NOT off to see the Wizard. The movie lost $1.1 million during its initial run. At that time, it was MGM’s most expensive movie made.
According to the Library of Congress, it’s the most-watched picture in history.
Here’s what you get at the Sphere’s VIP Experience. Choice of Good Witch or Bad Witch. The Bad Witch costs more with two additional perks. You’d think it was the other way around, but they state, “Bad witches come with a little more magic”. Okay.
Here’s what you get: The Sphere’s website price for just one of those front section seats? $377.39. (Monkeys are literally flying out of my butt.)
Well, what if I just want a regular experience, you ask? Top row, all the way in the back, Ticketmaster has them priced at 119 bucks. Each. (And they are doing multiple shows a day.)
Which means the Sphere makes two million a day showing an old movie on a giant curved screen.
To be fair, it is a 4D experience with multi-sensory effects like shaking seats, high-velocity wind, atmospheric fog, fire effects, falling leaves, flying butterflies, and even falling fake apples and flying monkey props.
Did Vegas find a new way for people to lose their money? Or is overpaying to watch a movie classic as a 4D experience totally worth the thrill?
Obviously the ticket sales win that argument. But you can have my seat, because spoiler… it was all a dream.
Brick Taylor saw “The Wizard of Oz” for the first time as a child on his family’s black and white TV. When Dorothy opened the door to Oz, Brick’s mother said, “If we had a color set, this would all become beautiful golden colors right now.”
