Word: ticketron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before anyone picks up the phone to call the local Ticketron, it should be pointed out that these rock worthies appear only on the album, not in the stage production. Nevertheless, Newman's work is savory enough on its own to guarantee a fair return under any auspices, except, perhaps, Carol Channing's. Bilious, outrageous and full of flinty, funny challenge, Faust has undergone sardonic transformation from what the author calls Goethe's "big brain thing" into a fleet Newmanesque parable of eliding destinies and colliding cultures. It is also guaranteed to contradict any lingering impression that, as Newman notes...
...summer because Ticketmaster is so powerful -- and so feared -- that no arena of decent size was willing to book the band. Ticketmaster denies that it has interfered in any way with Pearl Jam bookings. Artists afraid to be quoted by name claim that after buying out competing agencies like Ticketron, Ticketmaster is so powerful that it can hold up payment of ticket receipts for months, block bookings or just "experience computer problems" in selling tickets for a troublesome act, so that seats go unsold. Ticketmaster denies that it engages in such practices...
...sights. Those who hope to camp out amid the natural splendors during the summer high season are best advised to book well in advance. Since the early '80s, the National Park Service has sold campsites ($7-$15 a night) in 13 of the most popular parks through the Ticketron reservation service. So great is demand at Yosemite that the 200-plus daily openings, which go on sale eight weeks in advance, are snapped up in less than five minutes. Even bicyclists hoping to pedal Canyonlands National Park's scenic Island in the Sky trail in Utah must apply at least...