Live Events Are Back In Las Vegas — Bruno Mars, Garth Brooks, Dave Chappelle, Justin Bieber And More Sell Out
Last weekend, July 9–10 marked the full tilt resumption of ticketed entertainment in Las Vegas. High demand events were everywhere, but tickets were gone. I was in town for the World Ticket Conference, where ticket markets, suppliers, and vendors were all stunned to see the degree to which demand had reappeared after a Covid-19 shutdown which had lasted nearly sixteen months.
Normally, this is a pretty well-connected group who knows how to get into an event. However, demand was so high that folks who run mega-million ticket dollar companies were scrambling to find any ticket for Chappelle, Garth, Bruno or even Cirque du Soleil. The town was full, and everyone wanted to be in one of the rooms where the party was going off.
Bruno Mars returned to the Park MGM theater with his full production show: lasers, fireworks, confetti, and a surprisingly tight production which emphasized the quality of his band, the ways in which they joined Bruno in alternately hyping the crowd, participating in the dancing or building the layers of sound behind Bruno who brought all of his many skills back to a public audience. This was a pop music concert with all the whistles and bells, and it was exactly what the audience had missed while sequestered at home…
