(NewsNation) — Want to take your spouse and two kids to see “The Wizard of Oz” at The Sphere in Las Vegas? You better start saving your pennies now.
One Vegas insider who did buy tickets for himself and his wife, showed me his receipt: a whopping $288 for two tickets.
”What the hell is going on?” My insider fumed. “It’s not even an hour-and-a-half-long movie. If I wanted to take my kids, it would have cost almost $600, and that’s before I got to the concession stand! A damn movie would set me back $700 if I threw in popcorn and a drink!”
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Tickets to the movie start at $114 (for seats where views are obstructed). According to the LA Times, “There’s a lot of financial pressure on “Oz’s” girl from Kansas.
Adapting “Oz” to the Sphere’s dimensions took about $100 million
Adapting the film to Sphere’s stunning dimensions took about $100 million. Although the arena seats 17,600 when full, “Oz” showings only offer a slice of the middle section, roughly a third of its capacity. A trimmed 70-minute edit of the movie is playing two to three times a day, nearly every day, through the end of March 2026, with a ticket price that currently starts at $114.”
As my source noted, “Vegas is in a lot of trouble right now — very few tourists are coming right now, numbers are down across the board, and not a lot of locals can afford that pricing. This is just sheer greed.”…