By Sonia Rao
On this Thursday night in mid-August, the Sphere’s staff is preparing to test-run an elaborate production of “The Wizard of Oz,” which it has been advertising for weeks on its 580,000-square-foot LED exterior. Oscar-winning visual effects (VFX) supervisor Ben Grossmann enlisted a team of more than 800 people to reformat the film to fit the spherical venue’s 160,000-square-foot screen, which stretches around the arena seating and onto the dome-shaped ceiling. Various practical effects, paired with audio blasted through 167,000 programmable speakers, are meant to immerse the audience in the land of Oz. “We’re not talking about this as a movie,” says producer Jane Rosenthal, who consults on the Sphere’s programming. “We’re talking about this as an experience.”
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