Stadium of Fire sells out in minutes
Stadium of Fire with Miley Cyrus sells out in record time
"We've always sold out at these shows," according to the show's executive producer, Brad Pelo. "I think the Beach Boys sold out in two weeks." But that 1992 fete was royally trumped last night by a 15-year-old pop star big enough to sustain two-household names: Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana.
Brigham Young University ticket sales sold its first ticket at 5 p.m. By 5:10, its registers' tills were full and the ticket machines empty, Pelo said.
Those lucky enough to draw a first-in-line number that guaranteed them a chance at a ticket window exited the Marriott Center's doors with white envelopes brimming with as many of the tickets as they could afford. Each reacted to the purchase differently. Some just grinned, others skipped to their cars in the overflowing parking lot. And a few broke out into song
"I've got a golden ticket," one woman belted out in vibrato, as she skipped up the building's concrete ramp.Others stashed their envelops like classified documents, stuffing them deep into pockets, and even cowboy boots, before walking out into a crowd of coveting eyes.
Can they be blamed?
Folks were throwing down between $875 and $3,125 on the average envelope — a figure ticket sales personnel didn't expect.
They originally thought buyers would purchase six to nine tickets at a time according to average purchase data from the past three years, but when the clock struck 5, their calculations crashed — hard.
"Suddenly, everyone was buying 25 tickets at a time," Pelo said. "There's no way we could have predicted that."
Cyrus' recent concert at the Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City sold out quickly, too, Pelo continued. "But it was only something like a 13,000-seat concert." By contrast, the stadium blasted through 58,500 ticket sales. That's 97.5 sales per second Friday evening.
But the Stadium of Fire blasted through 5,850 ticket sales a minute and in a better mind-gripping figure, that's 97.5 sales a second.
If you didn't get your tickets, eBay may be your only shot.
Minutes after they went on sale, ticket offers popped up at the auction site for about four to six times what they were originally bought for seconds earlier.
If you weren't one of the first 250 people in line, like Sheyla Buckley, you simply missed out.
Buckley's 10-year-old daughter, who will be dancing at the 4th of July show, eagerly waited for her mother to return with a handful of tickets.
"I'm going to have a lot of friends," said Mary Ann Watanabe, flashing her 25 tickets.
But at the back of the line there was a more somber mood. Frustrated folks several hundred back, who heard different rumors of the sell-out, grew uneasy with their chances and fired questions as ushers. Too hopeful to leave, many waited in the line at least an hour and half after tickets were gone.
2 comments:
Between $875 and $3,125 ??
What IS this girl? I don't think I could resist selling my tickets if I had them. I guess that may be illegal though, I'm not sure.
the envelope of tickets which was what they where talking about was for 25 tickets, then they would go and sell each ticket for about $300 a piece, the norm. tickets where between $35-$120
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