“The Wizard of Oz at Sphere” has generated over $400 million in ticket sales and sold more than 3 million since opening in August.
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The Las Vegas Sphere is doing the time warp again for its next out-of-this-world experience – the 50-year-old classic “Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
Amid the wild success of the “Wizard of Oz at the Sphere,” Sphere Entertainment announced Tuesday, June 16, the production of a new super-sized experience – “The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Sphere,” coming in 2027.
Sphere Studios will use its technologies to enhance the original beloved 1975 film for projection on Sphere’s 160,000-square-foot wraparound LED screen, complete with immersive visuals and spatial audio.
The highly interactive aspects of the “Rocky Horror” cult-classic experience – in which viewers dress up in character costumes, shout back raunchy lines at the screen, sing “Time Warp” and throw props – will continue in the enhanced Sphere version.
“Since ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ premiered in 1975, it redefined audience participation and became a cultural phenomenon,” New York Knicks owner Jim Dolan, CEO of Sphere Entertainment, said in a statement. “We have the opportunity to take that spirit of immersion to an entirely new level.”
The cult classic movie stars Tim Curry in his iconic, breakthrough role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a flamboyant “sweet transvestite” scientist from Transsexual, Transylvania. The film also features Susan Sarandon as the innocent Janet Weiss and Barry Bostwick as her strait-laced fiancé Brad Majors, whose car trouble leads them to Frank-N-Furter’s bizarre castle.
The “Rocky Horror” announcement comes nearly a year after “The Wizard of Oz” debuted at Sphere on Aug. 28, transporting audiences into the classic 1939 film starring Judy Garland as Dorothy. The $100 million project transformed the movie into a fully immersive experience, with the Kansas twister swirling across Sphere’s wraparound screen while wind effects, rumbling seats and spatial audio made audiences feel as if they were traveling to Oz themselves.
“The Wizard of Oz at Sphere” has generated over $400 million in ticket sales and sold more than 3 million total tickets since opening in Las Vegas, according to a Sphere release.
As USA TODAY’s Melissa Ruggieri wrote: “There is no succinct way to describe the transformative encounter that begins upon entry into the venue’s atrium, which welcomes viewers into the Land of Oz with Sphere-typical grandiosity.”
When is the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ coming to the Sphere?
The “Rocky Horror Picture Show at Sphere” is expected in 2027 at the Sphere. No further details of the release date were given. To receive updates, visit thesphere.com and sign up for the Sphere Newsletter.
