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Lollapalooza Nixes Another Show – Low Ticket Sales To Blame
07-18-03
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Lollapalooza organizers have cancelled their
July 26th appearance at Vernon Downs racetrack in central New York.
This is the second date canceled on the
comeback tour this year. This time the organizers place the blame on soft
ticket sales and high production costs of bring the show to that particular
venue.
"Due to the costs of production versus
the estimated tickets sales of 15,000, it did not make fiscal sense to
play this date," tour organizers said a statement. "Unfortunately, the
venue is such that Lollapalooza would have needed to bring in additional
production facilities, which made the cost to produce the Syracuse-area
show significantly more than other venues on the tour."
The venue reportedly holds between 25,000
and 30,000 people. The marketing director for the venue, Mark Scalzo, told
press representatives that he did not know exactly how many tickets were
sold for the event but the last figure he had heard was around 4,000.
The first scheduled date for the tour in
Michigan was also nixed. At the time organizers blamed that cancellation
on "staging and technical difficulties with the event site."
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