{"id":117431,"date":"2024-04-02T15:01:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/02\/mamma-mia-abbas-virtual-concert-residency-voyage-may-be-coming-to-the-las-vegas-strip\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T15:01:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:01:31","slug":"mamma-mia-abbas-virtual-concert-residency-voyage-may-be-coming-to-the-las-vegas-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/04\/02\/mamma-mia-abbas-virtual-concert-residency-voyage-may-be-coming-to-the-las-vegas-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamma Mia! ABBA’s virtual concert residency, ‘Voyage,’ may be coming to the Las Vegas Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ABBA Voyage<\/em>, the virtual concert production<\/strong><\/a> starring computer-generated “avatars” of the members of ABBA<\/strong>, backed by a live orchestra, has been playing exclusively in London since May 2022. But the show is reportedly heading to the U.S. for a run in — where else? — Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Sources tell The Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0the show will be staged in a custom-built facility on the Strip, with Resorts World the leading contender to host it. It’ll start as a limited engagement, then be extended if the demand is there.<\/p>\n

ABBA Voyage<\/em> used motion-capture technology to create digital “avatars” of group members\u00a0Agnetha F\u00e4ltskog<\/strong>, Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus<\/strong>, Benny Andersson\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Anni-Frid Lyngstad<\/strong> as they looked in 1979<\/strong><\/a>. In the London show, the avatars then “perform” the group’s biggest hits, while a live 10-piece orchestra accompanies them. The hit-packed set list includes “Mamma Mia,” “Does Your Mother Know,” “Waterloo,” “SOS,” “Fernando” and, of course, “Dancing Queen.”<\/p>\n

The motion-capture technology is courtesy of Industrial Light and Magic, which also worked on U2<\/strong>‘s eye-popping, recently concluded residency at Sphere in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

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Ian West\/PA Images via Getty Images ABBA Voyage, the virtual concert production starring computer-generated “avatars” of the members of ABBA, backed by a live orchestra, has been playing exclusively in London since May 2022. But the show is reportedly heading to the U.S. for a run in — where else?Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}