Oprahs bizarre Vegas residency at the Sphere came to her in a daydream

Hit the showers, Bono — Oprah’s in town.Las Vegas has seen some genuinely strange spectacles over the decades — but nothing quite like what Oprah Winfrey is reportedly cooking up under a 366-foot-tall LED dome.The media mogul is set to take over Sin City’s fabled Sphere next spring — for a bizarre, two-hour mass enlightenment spectacle called “Oprah Winfrey’s AHA.” The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.

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Never miss a story Fans who pay hundreds of dollars per ticket will be treated to a visual, spiritual journey involving music, poetry, cutting-edge visuals — and even an appearance by a group of Buddhist monks.The idea for the production — “a call to wonder, to joy, and the ultimate AHA moment,” Winfrey explained — came from an “aha!” moment of her own, right inside the gargantuan venue.“‘AHA’ is a dream that came to me as I sat in awe at the opening night of U2 at the Sphere, mesmerized by the possibilities of how the space could be used as a tool for creating greater awareness and understanding of ourselves and our connection to each other,” Winfrey said.

Her mid-show epiphany, apparently, inspired her to cook up the world’s most technologically engineered group therapy session.Set to run the weekend of April 2 through April 4 with just four shows, the ostensibly enlightening extravaganza will feature Winfrey live — alongside a wildly eclectic lineup.Sharing the mega-stage with the Queen of Talk will be seven-time Grammy winner Jacob Collier, celebrated poet Ocean Vuong, folk artist and meditative soundscape-tress Ajeet, booming gospel veteran Wintley Phipps, and more.

Just in case the lineup with a 160,000-square-foot 16K wraparound screen in the gambling capital wasn’t zen enough? She’s also bringing in a group of Thich Nhat Hanh...