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Since they disbanded, their two albums have become oral histories of an era, selling 3,050,000 copies. When the 26-city, 31-concert comeback tour was announced, the 30,375-seat Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, N.J., sold out in less than a day, a Ticketron record. Before opening night in Seattle, advance sales for the tour-at an average of $7.50 a ticket-projected a $10 million gross (compared to the $5.7 million grossed by Dylan last winter), which would make C. S. N. & Y. the most commercially successful tour in the history of U.S. music. The group...
...Facts: 90 minutes, quadraphonic sound (the unit is so swank that it travels with the show, hence the limited engagement), 1972 tour, a lot of fast numbers, no dumb shots of the audience, Music Hall, through Tuesday, 7:30, five and a half bucks, no reserved seats, available at Ticketron but going fast. Clearly a peak experience...
Several suppliers of computer services were also in trouble. Los Angeles-based Computer Sciences Corp. discontinued Computicket, a system that sold theater and sports tickets at terminals linked to a central computer. Computicket had been losing clients to a rival service, Ticketron. At the same time, Manhattan's Computer Applications, Inc. scrapped Speedata, a computerized system for reporting grocery sales and prices. The company simply could net raise the $2,000,000 more needed to make the system profitable...
...ticketron program will enable Lion fans to obtain conveniently the best available seats on a first-come, first-served basis. At the electronic box offices, purchasers instantly receive the actual printed tickets, not box office exchanges, for the location and price desired...
Computer ticketing is still in its infancy, but its convenience is beginning to catch the public's fancy. After 15 months of operations, Ticketron, the bigger of the two systems, has terminals in more than 300 locations from coast to coast. It offers seats to a wide variety of entertainment, including the U.S. Open Tennis matches in Forest Hills, N.Y., the Philadelphia Folk Festival in Old Pool Farm, Pa., the home games of six major-league baseball teams and most events at Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden. According to President John Quinn Jr., T.R.S. now sells...