When Maroon 5 planned its 2023 residency year, the idea was to give fans an intimate concert experience in a 5,200-seat theater. The residency was so popular, it sold out in 2023, extended into 2024 (also sold out), and has now extended to eight dates in 2025. You can imagine what will happen next. Here’s what you can expect:

Dolby Live at Park MGM is a rather perfect venue for Maroon 5’s Live Nation Las Vegas-presented M5LV The Residency, and producer Baz Halpin and director Parker Genoway were particularly smart in the way they lined up the band—Adam Levine (lead vocals), James Valentine (lead guitar), Jesse Carmichael (keyboards and rhythm guitar), Matt Flynn (drums), PJ Morton (keyboards), and Sam Farrar (bass guitar, keyboards, percussion, sampler, special effects, and backing vocals)—laterally, across the raised portion of the venue’s massive 130’ x 40’ stage. The horn section is on one side, and the background vocalists on the other, allowing frontman Levine to go hard on the lower part of the stage and its X-shaped protrusion, jumping, leaping, shaking a fist in the air, and on a few occasions, displaying the ‘Disco Point’ (made famous by John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever).

The M5LV show grabbed me from the beginning, with the band’s selection of “Kiss” by Prince as the lead-in to the show’s intro—a Las Vegas vignette featuring a seemingly infinite number of showgirls doing a Rockettes kick-line, to the sounds of “Viva Las Vegas” by Elvis Presley.  I got chills at the audience’s reaction to the first few bars of “Animal” (the first song in their 21-song set), and again when the crowd heard the opening of “Moves Like Jagger” (which sends everyone into a tizzy).

The covers are fun, and both “I Wanna Be Your Lover” by Prince and “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees make great use of Levine’s falsetto.  But, for me, the highlight of the show is when Levine and Valentine, accompanied by a few security guards and cameramen, kick off the encore by venturing into the audience and singing a stripped-down version of “She Will Be Loved,” which is fantastic.  

Shout out to the lighting design by Tom Sutherland of DX7 Design, which is stunning, and with the stage bathed at different times in swaths of gold, a verdant green, vivid red, and cerulean, like a Rothko painting come to life.  The videos are fantastic (I especially enjoy the ones evoking sunset that merge with great effect with the smoke that covers the stage).

You might be wondering if Maroon 5’s extended M5LV residency is right for you. While these sorts of questions can only be answered by the individual, it’s safe to say that if you have been listening to the radio regularly these past couple of decades and have liked what you’ve heard, then yes, you’ll have a great time spending an evening at M5LV.

Maroon 5 returns to Dolby Live in March: 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 19, 21, and 22.
Doors at 7:00PM | Show at 8:00PM