Comedy is hot, including the Comedy Get Down tour, featuring Eddie Griffin, Mike Epps, Cedric the Entertainer, Charlie Murphy, George Lopez, and D.L. Hughley, which hit the Rose Quarter, Portland, Ore., June 4.
Travis Pastrana’s Nitro Circus Live returned to Australia to honor their 10th Anniversary Tour 2016, with stops in Sydney and Brisbane, making our Hot Tickets chart this week. First, Nitro Circus stopped at Brisbane (Australia) Entertainment Centre, May 13-15 where more than 22,400 fans were in attendance for the action sports collective. Next, the tour stopped in Sydney at Qudos Bank Arena where fans saw ticket prices range from $50 to $108. The Nitro Circus-promoted tour saw more than $2.77 million grossed throughout the five shows. European fans of Nitro Circus Live can catch their first stop in Belfast, Northern Ireland at Windsor.
Adam Sandler, David Spade, Nick Swardson, and Rob Schneider have teamed up on a seven-stop North American comedy tour calledl The Do-Over, which coincides with Sandler’s Netflix project of the same name. The Tour’s final performance at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Conn., has made our chart for their May 27 performance. Sandler, Spade, Swardson, and Schneider brought in more than 7,200 fans to the In-house and WME-promoted night that grossed $636,000 in ticket sales.
HOT TICKETS is a weekly summary of the top acts and ticket sales as reported to VT PULSE. Following are the top 20 concerts and events, the top 5 in each seating capacity category, which took place between May 10-June 7.
15,001 or More Seats | 10,001-15,000 Seats | 5,001-10,000 Seats | 5,000 or Fewer Seats |
1) Euroleague Final Four 2) Kenny Chesney 3) Kenny Chesney 4) Justin Bieber 5) Nitro Circus Live | 1) Cirque du Soleil Toruk 2) Nitro Circus Live 3) Jimmy Buffet 4) Luke Bryan 5) Luke Bryan | 1) Kenny Chesney 2) Bethel Music - Heaven 3) Adam Sandler 4) Def Leppard 5) James Taylor | 1) Celine Dion 2) The Book of Mormon 3) Beautiful 4) Scorpions 5) The Book of Mormon |
The Weekly Hot Tickets chart is compiled by Monique Potter. To submit reports, e-mail HotTickets@venuestoday.com or fax to (714) 378-0040. |