![]() “They want to be consumed by everything they can.” Fans are looking for more backstory, more engagement and beyond just sitting in the seat and attending the show,” said Andrew Luft, vice-president of partnerships at Vibee, the Live Nation-founded destination experience company. “The future of live entertainment, or at least a portion of it, will be more and more immersive. The experience began next door in the Venetian Resort, at the two-floor Zoo Station: A U2:UV Experience museum, theatre, lounge and gift shop celebrating U2’s pioneering 19 ZOO TV tour that, oddly, didn’t sell out its stop at the Silver Bowl stadium. But Las Vegas’s newest “showroom,” the $2.3 billion, 18,000-seat Sphere, redefines concerts. In bars, theatres, hockey rinks, football stadiums, parks, beaches, mountaintops and valley floors. I’ve attended hundreds of concerts, indoors and outdoors. U2 – even with drummer Larry Mullen Jr.’s temporary replacement Bram van den Berg – and the band’s home for at least 25 “Atomic City” shows lived up to the hype. When Vancouver got its shiny silver geodesic dome in 1985, I was among hundreds of high schoolers who volunteered to wave flags for the one-year countdown to Expo 86 at what is now Science World.Įven when the newly lit roof is fixed and the theatre reopens in East False Creek, it won’t hold a candle to the biggest new bauble on the Las Vegas skyline, which I experienced on opening night last Friday.Ī band from Dublin that once called itself The Hype came to celebrate 47 years together by creating more hype. ![]() Omnimax, a Canadian innovation, was a teenage mindblower that I discovered on a family trip to the giant “golf ball” at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Field trips about the solar system and space travel, the Pink Floyd laser light show and even a 54-40 record release concert left me speechless. Still haven’t seen the Sistine Chapel, but staring at other, modern ceilings has brought me great wonder and joy.Īs a schoolchild, it was the Planetarium’s Star Theatre, with robotic projector Harold, under the ceiling of the venerable H.R.
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