Word: orpheums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following the Rolling Stones' announcement yesterday that the band's Hartford concert date would be moved up to early November, 1000 people waited in line at Boston's Orpheum Theater for tickets but were disappointed when the Ticketron outlet could only sell 36 tickets before closing...
...first 25 ticket-seekers in line, mostly college students, gathered outside the Orpheum early yesterday after hearing rumors emanating from radio stations in New York and Massachusetts. Although Orpheum spokesmen said they didn't know if tickets would be sold, WBCN hinted that people would be able to buy them within twenty-four hours. By 2 p.m. the ticket-seekers began to grumble...
...tickets arrived before the outlet opened at 10 a.m. Some were there to buy tickets for the Stones' Nov. 27-28 concert in Syracuse, but the Nov. 27 date sold out Tuesday and tickets for the 28th would not be available through Ticketron, a spokesman for the Orpheum said...
...tour, we are promised, the Rolling Stones really will play Boston. The key question is one of logistics: what site would allow both proper safety and admission procedures and still enable the maximum number of Stones fans to see their heroes? Only 2800 persons can be seated in the Orpheum Theatre--the initially proposed venue--and even the crumbling Boston Garden, with 15,000 seats, is much too small...
Boston officials cited that occurrence when banning the Orpheum concerts, but Graham denied that the Worcester crowd was unruly...