Permanent “Friends” Attraction Coming to Las Vegas
A permanent “The Friends Experience” is coming to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in tribute to the legendary sitcom. [Image: Shutterstock.com]
Las Vegas will soon host one of only three permanent installations in the world of “The Friends Experience,” according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
MGM Grand will feature recreations of “Friends” sets.
Along with the original location in the iconic sitcom’s New York heartland and another to open in London this summer, the Vegas Experience at MGM Grand will feature recreations of “Friends” sets.
These include replicas of coffee shop Central Perk, the characters’ apartments, the Las Vegas wedding chapel where an inebriated Ross and Rachel got married, and the fountain from the show’s opening credits. Original X Productions produces the Experience and its CEO Stacy Moscatelli outlined why Sin City was a choice for a permanent installation.
“Vegas really has everything that we look for in a new market in terms of audience, visitors, entertainment, attractions,” she stated. Moscatelli added that because over 40 million people visited Vegas in 2023, “we want to be an entertainment option for those guests.”
According to the Review-Journal, the two-story attraction will pay tribute to a four-episode arc in 1999 that saw the characters arrive in Sin City. The sitcom remains one of the most popular series on TV despite nearing its 30th anniversary.
MGM Grand will house the Experience at its The District area, a space that previously hosted “The Hunger Games: The Exhibition,” and “CSI: The Experience.” The producers have provided no official opening date, but Moscatelli stated “probably late fall.”
