Tickets On Sale For ‘Wizard of Oz’ at Vegas Sphere

• Tickets for the Las Vegas Sphere’s reproduction of “The Wizard of Oz” are now on sale
• Screenings start August 28
• The price point aligns with what the Sphere charges for its current feature films

Tickets to the immersive version of “The Wizard of Oz” are on sale now at thesphere.com. The film will screen multiple times daily starting August 28, and the price aligns with what the Sphere asks for its current films, “Postcard from Earth” and “V-U2.”

The ambitious amplification of the iconic movie was made possible through a marriage of AI and film archives from Warner Bros. and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

For example, in the original film, many closeups of Dorothy were shot to fill the 4:3 movie screens of 1939 with Judy Garland’s face. But closeups aren’t necessary to see her face on the Sphere’s 450-foot long, 240-foot tall LED screen, which is 1.327 times wider — even from the cheapest of the venue’s 18,600 seats.

So Sphere engineers replaced those closeups by having AI recreate the rest of Garland — and the other actors and environment surrounding her — for those scenes.

“If you’ve ever wondered if Oz actually exists — it does inside Sphere,” Sphere Entertainment chair and CEO James Dolan said in a press release. “’The Wizard of Oz’ at Sphere will put on full display what Sphere is capable of as an experiential medium.

Audiences will feel like they are part of the adventure as they experience the film in a way they never have before.”

The creative team included Academy Award and Emmy-nominated producer Jane Rosenthal (“The Irishman”); Academy Award-winning visual effects specialist Ben Grossmann (“Hugo”); Academy Award-winning editor Jennifer Lame (“Oppenheimer”); and Creative Director Zack Winokur (Little Island).

In addition, an 80-piece orchestra was brought to the original MGM scoring stage near LA to redo the entire soundtrack, which, when combined with the Sphere’s haptics (i.e., wind effects during the tornado) will augment the immersive experience.

Tickets are available here for “The Wizard of Oz” at $104-$194 per seat, with the cheapest seats during daytime screenings.