The efficiency of getting into the theater was smooth. They let you into the entry area an hour before you can be seated to get you lined up to run through ticket scanning and a scaled-down TSA security check. And it has to be because they have to seat 16,500 people in the 45 minutes before the show starts.
Above is what is projected on the screen while everyone is getting seated. The bottom looks like an orchestra pit, and softly playing was what sounds like one warming/tuning up to play. You can pick out snippets of the famous score.
If you are a purist fan of the film, you might not appreciate what has been cut, sped up, or added, because like anything created using that much AI, it can be either wondrous or appalling. The experience is definitely worth the price of admission; the tornado sequence is fantastic, the way Glenda’s arrivals and departures were done is just great, and the flying monkeys are a thing to behold.
After the original credits, they do the credits for the current production, and instead of endless scrolling, the entire screen is filled, so it goes by in just two 30-second images. Above is what is projected on the screen as the thousands of us slowly climb up the stairs to ride escalators down to


