Closed — the record of a 25-year residency
Plainly first: David Copperfield played his final MGM Grand show on April 30, 2026, ending a 25-year residency in the intimate 740-seat David Copperfield Theater. This page is the record of that run, not a listing for it — the room is now the MGM Grand Theater, where Now You See Me Live opened in October 2026. The closing document sits at position 6: the breaking-news film of March 6, 2026, when the end was announced, worked through by a reviewer who had covered the show the previous summer. Everything else here is the residency as it played.
The final years, reviewed honestly
The set is deliberately heavy on the late era. The final-year review (August 2025) works the whole show — classic illusions alongside the newer storytelling pieces — and asks whether a quarter-century run still justified its ticket. The 'Final Honest Review' (January 2026) is a longtime dreamer's pilgrimage: he wades through the internet's pile of negative reviews first, then tests them against the actual night — the most considered of the farewell visits. A lifelong fan's 2024 worth-it test keeps nostalgia out of the verdict on production scale and illusion hit rate; a December 2023 last-minute visitor reports the rite plainly ('he's been playing there for many, many years'). The oldest film, a 2017 meet-and-greet review, survives because its verdict — whether the photo-and-handshake upgrade is worth its price — exists nowhere else in the set.
The warehouse
The page's jewel is from 2013: the resort's own TV visit to Copperfield's secret warehouse, touring the props and costumes of the act — including the flaming spikes of the Fires of Passion escape, performed ten stories up in a straitjacket under burning ropes — while Copperfield tells the career story that starts with an 8-year-old and a deck of cards. The film's billing is the era's own: 11 Guinness World Records, more tickets sold than any other solo entertainer in history. Whatever came next for the room, the quarter-century it housed is Las Vegas history — this page is its fullest film record, and our 'O' and Mystère pages carry the Strip's surviving large-scale magic of a different kind.
Sources: the seven videos on this page — final-year and farewell reviews (2023–2026), a meet-and-greet review, the March 2026 closure announcement, and a 2013 warehouse interview — summarized from their entries in our catalog.