Who/what is PrimaryWave? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_Wave_(company)Bob Marley Hope Road, an immersive entertainment experience years in the making, officially opens with preview shows beginning June 25 at Mandalay Bay Resort.
(tl;dr: it's a relatively small (compared to eg Sony) music publishing company which owns the rights to the catalogue of Bob Marley, Nirvana, and many others)
Mandalay Bay is in Las Vegas. What they do there is not representative of what's done elsewhere in the world. Ticket prices are usually outrageous, so yeah I'd rather go to a cover band or just put on the CD or a DVD with a documentary. But their argument: it's not the same experience. And they're probably right.
Worth it? Would I go? Not so relevant. I'm not going to Vegas for sure (been there, done that, the US has to un-MAGA first) but I have been to the Dutch adaptation of The Bodyguard musical featuring lots of Whitney Houston songs.
Do enough people go? They apparently think so. Do check again in some months. When Mandalay Bay has put it off the agenda, then apparently it was not profitable enough. That's all business decisions. Not my world at all.
Statistics: Posted by BertKoor — Thu Jul 31, 2025 8:55 am