Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:30:00
The fourth performance space in David Saxe's Miracle Mile empire carries the V4 billing, completing the set of showrooms the producer operates at 3663 Las Vegas Boulevard South inside the mall wrapped around Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. The number tells the story of two decades of accretion: Saxe opened the original V Theater in 2004 for his Ultimate Variety Show, added rooms as productions multiplied, and in 2010 took over the former $34 million Steve Wyrick Theatre after its foreclosure, reopening it as the Saxe Theater with VEGAS! The Show. Across the portfolio the daily schedule is relentless - up to seventeen performances of ten or more titles, from morning magic to midnight burlesque - and the V4 room absorbs the overflow: specialty acts, limited engagements, television tapings and productions between larger homes. The Saxe formula in every room is consistent: tickets priced under the resort showrooms, run times tight enough to stack an evening, VIP tables up front, and performers who work the crowd because the room is small enough to make that the whole point. The infrastructure advantage compounds - shared box office, marketing, costumes, rehearsal space and crew across all four V rooms plus the Saxe Theater - letting a new show open for a fraction of standalone cost, which is why so many Vegas titles have debuted somewhere in this complex. For the Miracle Mile Shops, the theater cluster is an anchor tenant of a different kind: show traffic feeds the restaurants and stores through the same corridors, an entertainment-retail loop the mall's designers could only have hoped for. The V4 is the depth of the bench made visible - proof that in Las Vegas even the fourth room of a mall theater complex out-programs most cities' main stages. The numbering also gives the complex resilience - when one room closes for a retool, its titles slide to the V4 and the schedule never breaks - an operational redundancy that has kept Saxe's box office open every night through renovations, recessions and even the Strip's darkest seasons.
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