The MSG Sphere at The Venetian will open its doors this autumn and offer the first of up to six residency headliners as well as the first original immersive film content.
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Lucas Watson, the president of The MSG Sphere, took the stage at Monday morning at Preview Las Vegas in a square conference center to talk about a rounded fortress.
“When I said you can feel it, you may have thought it was a figure of speech,” MSG Sphere President Lucas Watson said Monday. “But there will be 10,000 haptic seats that will make you feel the experience in your bones.”
U2 is inching to a bonafide announcement about this series at The MSG Sphere we’ve been tracking for the past few months.
We expect the MSG Sphere to showcase a custom production-projection show, to run daily throughout the year, to be The Sphere’s anchor.
Investors will spend at least $3.2 billion, add 4,758 hotel rooms and 581,000 square feet of meeting and convention space in projects set for completion next year.
Larry Mullen Jr. said in an interview this week that he “won’t be performing live next year. I don’t know what the band’s plan is.”
U2 is not planning to tour as it preps for MSG Sphere and “something special” in next show.
A former executive at Allegiant Stadium and T-Mobile Arena, Raul Gutierrez, has been named general manager of the MSG Sphere at The Venetian, which opens next year.
There’s no timeline for a spinoff company to be formed, and the Sphere, less than a year from completion, has a new construction cost estimate that has climbed to $2B.
An electrical fire was extinguished from the top of the under-construction MSG Sphere Tuesday afternoon.
Champion Painting Specialty Services Corp. has worked on the George Washington and Verrazano Narrows bridges in New York and two stadiums in Miami.
Some are wondering whether the MSG Sphere at The Venetian could be home to a National Basketball Association team. Rest assured, this venue is mostly for entertainment.
The last steel beam of the exosphere of the MSG Sphere at The Venetian was put into place with the massive construction crane Tuesday.
