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Monday, April 5, 2010
‘Wicked’ numbers hard to forget
The musical “Wicked,” which invaded and conquered downtown Dayton Feb. 17-March 7, is gone, having moved on to other cities where the grass and money are green. It won’t be forgotten by the time it comes this way again, as it almost certainly will in two or three years.
Even so, the Broadway show’s inaugural run at the Schuster Performing Arts Center didn’t seize the record from “The Phantom of the Opera,” but that’s only because “Phantom” played the same theater for four weeks in 2003. If “Wicked” had stayed another week, things might be different.
Here’s a glance at just how well it did do, according to the Victoria Theatre Association, which presented it.
“Wicked” by the numbers:
Wicked by the numbers:
53,000: tickets sold. Capacity is 54,000.
$85: average ticket price paid to see it at the Schuster Performing Arts Center.
$4,590,000: box office receipts.
2: number of couples who got publicly engaged during the run. (One groom to be, Matt Fullenkamp, said he was seated near “a good friend of the actress who played Glinda. She sent a text to Glinda during intermission, after I had proposed. During the curtain call, Glinda and the other actors looked down and said, ‘congratulations!’ “)
12,847: number of cars parked at the Arts Garage, Ludlow and Second streets.
721: total of Victoria Theatre Association volunteers who worked during the two dozen performances.
6,422: volunteer hours they put in as ushers, bar attendants, team leaders, etc.
16,888: VTA staff hours, not including administrative personnel.
24: Dayton Police Department officers who directed traffic before and after performances (does not include extra patrols assigned by the DPD).
2,750: Ticket buyers served in the adjoining Citilites restaurant before shows.
Next attraction at the Schuster will be the recently revived Broadway musical “A Chorus Line,” April 27-May 2. For tickets and more information, call (937) 228-3630 or go to www.ticketcenterstage.com.
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Richard Marx to perform at Fraze
Popular 1980s singer Richard Marx will perform a charity concert at The Fraze this summer.
The concert is on Sunday, Aug. 15 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $48, $36 and $22. They go on sale Saturday, April 10 at 9 a.m.
Marx hits include “Don’t Mean Nothing,” “Hold On to the Nights,” “Satisfied,” and “Right Here Waiting.”
In 2006 he joined Ringo Starr’s All-Star Band for a tour of 22 cities. Richard played guitar in the band and performed his own hits at each show.
Proceeds from the Wright-Patt Credit Union, Dayton Area Toyota Dealers and Fricker’s 13th Annual Celebrity Concert for Charity go to cystic fibrosis research and to the Martha Franz Fund at Children’s Medical Center of Dayton, which supports the needs of local CF families.
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C-J student in poetry nationals
Chaminade-Julienne High School student Lynsay Strahorn will represent Ohio in the national finals of the Poetry Out Loud competition April 25-27 in Washington, D.C.
She won the fifth annual Ohio competition in March at Ohio Dominican University, besting competitors from 47 other schools. Other area participants included: Janae Cooper of Alter High School, Elise Duncan of Beavercreek High School, Jonnetta White of the Dayton Early College Academy, Constance Miller of Greenon High School, Mary Kate O’Neill of Kettering Fairmont, Leandra Cruzado of Northmont and Renika Williams of Trotwood Madison.
Lynsay received $300 and an all-expenses-paid trip to compete in Washington, D.C. Her school received a $500 stipend for the purchase of poetry books.
A total of $50,000 in scholarships and school stipends will be awarded to the winners at the national finals.
Poetry Out Loud is presented by The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation in partnership with the Ohio Arts Council.
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FesTiki returns to Dayton this summer
The second annual Surf Ohio FesTiki is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 14 and will feature a legendary surf rock band, reunited for the first time in 10 years.
The celebration of the surf, tiki and hot rod culture will take place at Old River Park in Dayton.
The day-long band lineup is highlighted by the Space Cossacks, one of the top-selling bands of the 1990s surf music revival.
FesTiki is “an exotic trip back to America’s “Polynesian Pop” era of the 1950s and ’60s,” according to organizers.
In addition to the Space Cossacks, the following bands are scheduled to appear: Vegas 66, the Madeira, Crazy Joe and the Mad River Outlaws, the Nick Kizirnis Band, Tyrd Fyrgysyn and the MasterXploders, and Llacuna and Silva with Leilani.
A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Surfrider Foundation, a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to the protection of the world’s beaches.
Admission is $10 for adults; $5 for ages 10-17; and free for ages 9 and under. For more information go to www.surfohio.com or www.festiki.com.
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