Australia's Thunder From Down Under volition observe its 25th day connected the Las Vegas Strip connected Sunday, July 5, 2026, astatine Excalibur. Photo by: Courtesy of Thunder From Down Under
By Las Vegas Sun Staff (contact)
Saturday, July 4, 2026 | 2 a.m.
It was the summertime of 2001. The New Frontier inactive stood connected the Las Vegas Strip, a low-rise relic of an older Vegas trading connected nostalgia and inexpensive country rates. And wrong 1 of its theaters, a troupe of Australian dancers launched what would go the longest-running antheral revue successful Las Vegas history.
Twenty-five years later, the New Frontier is simply a vacant batch — imploded successful 2007 — portion Australia’s "Thunder From Down Under" performs nightly astatine Thunderland, its dedicated showroom wrong Excalibur.
The amusement marks its day Sunday, 25 years aft its July 5, 2001, Strip debut.
“Today, Thunder holds the favoritism of being the longest-running antheral revue successful Las Vegas past and is wide recognized arsenic 1 of the longest-running antheral revue productions successful the world,” co-owners Billy Cross and Adam Steck said successful a associated statement. “The amusement continues to execute nightly successful its dedicated showroom, Thunderland.”
Cross, the show’s laminitis and creator, and Steck, CEO of SPI Entertainment, built what began arsenic a niche amusement conception into thing the Strip had not seen before: a antheral revue with a specifically Australian individuality that recovered an assemblage wide and loyal capable to past 2 and a fractional decades of shifting Strip demographics and the emergence and autumn of competing venues.
The amusement moved from the New Frontier to Excalibur conscionable 1 twelvemonth aft its Strip debut and has not moved since. Excalibur is operated by MGM Resorts International.
Over its run, Thunder has attracted a personage pursuing that includes Britney Spears, Demi Moore, Kelly Clarkson, Paris Hilton, Jessica Biel, Kelly Ripa, Sting and Trudie Styler, according to the show’s producers. The amusement has been featured connected nationalist tv programs including “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” “The View,” “The Tonight Show” and “Drop Dead Diva,” and appeared successful the Disney movie “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.”
The amusement has besides toured internationally. Two touring troupes presently question year-round crossed the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.
“When we archetypal brought Thunder to Las Vegas 25 years ago, we believed it had the imaginable to win connected the biggest signifier successful entertainment,” Cross and Steck said. “To inactive beryllium present 25 years aboriginal is thing we’re incredibly arrogant of. The occurrence of Thunder has ever travel down to large radical — the performers, crew, absorption squad and partners who person been committed to gathering the brand. This milestone belongs to each of us.”
Thunder performs nightly astatine 8 p.m. with further 10 p.m. shows connected Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets commencement astatine $61.16 earlier taxes and fees. Attendees indispensable beryllium 18 oregon older.
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