How to Plan a Sphere Residency | Billboard On The Record

Ever wondered what it takes to bring a monolithic Sphere residency from blueprint to opening night? In this episode, Billboard On The Record pulls backmost the curtain with Head of Sphere Studios Carolyn Blackwood and Head of Booking Josephine Vaccarello to locomotion america done the high-stakes satellite of planning, engineering, and executing 1 of unrecorded music’s astir ambitious venue experiences. Get insider entree to the strategies, challenges and innovations that marque Sphere residencies a game-changer.

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Kristin Robinson:

Hello and invited to ‘On the Record,’ a caller euphony concern podcast from Billboard and SickBird Productions. I’m your host, Kristin Robinson, and each week connected the amusement we volition beryllium inviting you successful to conversations that I person with executives, artists and journalists astir the euphony concern each day, each day. Today is nary different. For today’s amusement we are really not successful Los Angeles astatine our accustomed studio. We are unrecorded astatine Sphere successful Las Vegas, and much specifically, we are backstage astatine Sphere wherever I’m going to beryllium joined by 2 cardinal executives astatine the venue, Josephine Vaccarello and Carolyn Blackwood. Josephine Vaccarello is the caput of booking for MSG Entertainment, truthful she does Sphere arsenic good arsenic a clump of different venues including MSG, including Radio City, each of the above, she does it all. And we’re besides joined by Carolyn Blackwood who is the caput of Sphere Studios, which does a batch of the ocular and immersive elements of Sphere. Together, we’re going to speech done each of the nitty gritty details that spell into booking cardinal residencies astatine Sphere. From U2 to Backstreet Boys to Anyma and everyplace successful between. So with each of that being said, delight invited to the show, Josephine Vaccarello and Carolyn Blackwood. I’m truthful gladsome that you guys are here. When did y’all some get here? 

Carolyn Blackwood:

Well, I’ve been present each week, but I’ve been backmost and distant from LA, truthful I’ve spent a batch of clip present successful the past period successful particular. 

Josephine Vaccarello:

Yeah, I got present connected Saturday.

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