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Here’s the Top 5 Events On www.selectaticket.com last week!
Check back next week to see the latest hot events on Select-A-Ticket. With the MLB Playoffs starting up soon, the NFL season underway and NHL preseason upon us, I would expect to see a good share of sports tickets but you never know!
The two-character Keith Huff play, A Steady Rain began previews on Thursday, September 10 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The production is only for a limited 12-week period; It opens on Tuesday, September 29, and runs through Sunday, December 6, 2009.
The production stars Hollywood super heros Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig. They play a pair of Chicago police officers who were once life long friends, but are torn apart by a foul investigation.
A Steady Rain marks Craig’s Broadway debut, but he has worked in London with the Royal National Theatre and the Peter Hall Company. While this is Craig’s Broadway debut, Jackman is no stranger to the Broadway stage. He earned a Tony Award for his work in the Broadway musical The Boy From Oz. He also was in productions of Beauty and the Beast and Sunset Boulevard in Australia.
A Steady Rain is bound to be successful because of the team of people who put it together. It is directed by Tony Award nominee, John Crowley, and is produced by a mix of talented producers such as Barbara Broccoli, Raymond L. Gaspard, Frank Gero, Jeffery Sign, Michael G. Wilson, Cheryl Wisenfeld, Fredrick Zollo, Michael Rose Ltd, The Shubert Organizations Inc. and Robert Cole.
The production features original music and sound design by Mark Bennet, set and costume design by Scott Pask, and lighting design by Hugh Vanstone.
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The New York Rangers will be playing their first pre-season game at Madison Square Garden against the Boston Bruins on Tuesday, September 15 at 7 p.m. Here are a couple games you cannot miss: Thursday, October 27 vs. New Jersey Devils, Saturday, December 26 vs. New York Islanders, and Wednesday, December 30 vs. Philadelphia Flyers.
This will be the New York Rangers’ first training camp and full season under head coach John Tortorella. Tortorella has a chance to make them the fast, aggressive team he likes to coach. With strong goaltending from Henrik Lundqvist, Tortorella feels his team can afford to take offensive risks because Lundqvist will bail them out more often than not.
The New York Rangers have made many line up changes during the summer. Marian Gaborik is the new high-scoring forward who signed on to play in the off-season. The team traded Scott Gomez to Montreal for Long Island native, Chris Higgins. They also traded Lauri Korpikoski to Phoenix for the talented Enver Lisin.
The New York Rangers signed tough guy winger, Donald Brashear, and speedy winger, Ales Kotalik. They decided to walk away from arbitration ruling, making Nikolai Zherdev a free agent. And finally, they signed veteran forward Vaclav Prospal.
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Avenue Q will play its final performance on Sunday, September 13 at the John Golden Theatre in New York City. This Tony Award winning Broadway show for Best Musical will have played 22 previews and 2,534 performances when it closes. Based on the book by Jeff Whitty, this show features music and lyrics written by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx with direction by Jason Moore.
The show is greatly inspired by Sesame Street. Some of the characters are in fact puppets that sing, as do the live characters. The show is definitely an adult advancement of Sesame Street that can be enjoyed by both adults and teenagers because of its relation to real life.
Avenue Q is about a broke college graduate named Princeton who wants to move to New York City and make a life for himself. He has a hard time fulfilling this dream due to his empty pockets and the high cost of living in the City. The only place he is able to afford is Avenue Q! When he moves to Avenue Q he meets all kinds of quirky people and makes many new friends. They struggle together to ultimately try to find their purpose in life.
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Here is the list for the past week, the return of KISS has generated a lot of excitement for their New York shows and tickets are moving fast!
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On September 25, 1976 U2 was formed in Dublin, Ireland. The Irish rock band has now launched a world wide concert tour starting in Barcelona, Spain called the 360° Tour. The tour is in support of their twelfth studio album, No Line on the Horizon, which is highy acclaimed. The 360° Tour is the band’s first tour since their Vertigo one back in 2006.
U2′s show director, Willie Williams worked with creative architect, Mark Fisher, to design one of the most innovative concert stages ever. Willie Williams has worked with U2 for each one of their tours since 1982.
Named for it’s unique stage design, U2′s 360° tour’s stage structure allows the crowd to be able to enjoy the band without anything in the way of their view. The stage is completely surrounded with audiences on all sides. As the band performs there is a 360° TV screen hovering over the stage allowing everyone in the audience to have a great view. This will be the first time a band has toured with a stage that has such an original and uncommon structure.
U2 will be playing two shows at Giants Stadium, one on Wednesday, September 23rd and one on Thursday, September 24th. Get your U2 concert tickets now!
With just 4 more hits New York Yankees captain, Derek Jeter, will pass Lou Gehrig for the most hits in the Yankees’ history. He’s getting there very quick too! In just the past 26 games he had 44 hits. He’s not wasting any time!
After 17 seasons, Lou Gehrig had a record of 2,721 hits with the New York Yankees just before his illness related retirement at age 35. Gehrig has held this record for 70 years.
On Saturday’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays, New York fans cheered as Derek Jeter swung closer to breaking the record. In the New York Yankees 6-4 win over the Blue Jays, Jeter hit 2 singles bringing his record to 2,715 hits. That leaves him just 7 hits short of breaking the record.
On Monday, Derek Jeter has an excellent chance to break Gehrig’s mark in becoming the all time hitter when the New York Yankees return home to start their series against the Tampa Bay Rays with a double header. On this day, history could be made in New York at the New Yankee Stadium.
You could be there when Derek Jeter breaks Lou Gherig’s record. Grab some New York Yankees tickets now!
For over four years the Broadway show, Jersey Boys, has been playing to sold out audiences. Audiences and critics agree that Jersey Boys is a sensational one of a kind musical. In 2006, the show won several Tony awards including Best Musical.
The show features the 1960′s rock and roll band, The Four Seasons, formed by members Frankie Valli, Nick Massi, Tommy DeVito and Bob Gaudio. Jersey Boys the musical follows the band’s coming of age and tells the story of their rise, fall, and success.
Uncommon for a musical, Jersey Boys has a documentary style storyline. The show is told by each member of the band taking turns narrating the story.
Each individual band member, and the band collectively have many life struggles, such as gambling debts, Mafia threats and family disasters, that they are forced to deal with throughout the musical. The band grew up together in the tough neighborhoods of New Jersey where they sang, rehearsed, and they ultimately used their innovative style to their advantage and founded the Doo Wop genre.
You’ll definitely enjoy the music from this show, and you may even recognize some of the tunes such as “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” and “December 1963 (Oh, What A Night).”
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The New Jersey Devils return to the ice with their first preseason game on September 16th against the New York Rangers. The team’s first regular season home game is on October 3rd against their rivals, the Philadelphia Flyers. They will be returning with a new coach… well, sort of. Jacques Lemaire is returning as head coach to replace Brent Sutter, who resigned on June 9th.
In the mid 1990′s, Jacques Lemaire coached the New Jersey Devils and led them to their first Stanley Cup in 1995. Not only did he lead the team to their first Stanley Cup, but he is also the coach who led the Devils to win 199 games, which is more than any other coach. Lemaire is no stranger to the Stanley Cup, he has won eleven Stanley Cups altogether as a player, an executive, and a coach. He took the team over in 1992 and that season he guided them to the second best record in the league.
See the all time winningest goalie, Martin Brodeur, increase his record, and the rest of the team by buying your New Jersey Devils Tickets now. Tickets are on sale for the entire season!
What was once a huge hit in London has made its way to Broadway at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. Billy Elliot has out shined many Broadway musicals by being nominated for Best Musical and fifteen other Tony awards including Best Original Score, Best Costume Design of a Musical, and Best Choreography.
With a little help from musical legend, Elton John, this Broadway show is based on the critically acclaimed British feature film and comes to life on stage. Elton John wrote a brand new score for the Broadway version of Billy Elliot. The show stars David Alvarez, Trent Kowlaik, and Kiril Kulish uniquely sharing the role of Billy.
Billy Elliot, an eleven year old child who is without a mother, is growing up in a northern town where men box and work in mines. He manages to find his way out of boxing practice and into a ballet class. He is attracted to the grace of ballet and secretly continues to take dance class in hopes of attending the Royal Ballet School in London. Billy Elliot is a story of one boy trying to follow his heart and make his dreams come true!
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