At the outset, the startup will be going after the big ticket names in music and the mid-sized bands or indie artists that can't fill out big venues but have engaged, core fan bases already engaged to help it build awareness and brand recognition, but over time, Estrin sees it expanding to include the long-tail.
Not one was a big-ticket name, and five were on the Dodgers team that finished 80-82 last season, fueling the impression that the club is recycling rather than reloading.
Customers decided to spend -- especially on goods with big-ticket names.
Under the directorship of Kazakh violinist Marat Bisengaliev, the SOI stages two sets of "celebrity" concerts – featuring such big-ticket names as Karl Jenkins and Tamas Vasary – every February and September.
So far the big-ticket names have failed to impress, with Ridley Scott receiving a thrashing for "Robin Hood" and Woody Allen not faring any better with "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger," his latest multi-strand trifle about vexed relationships featuring strong (Naomi Watts) and less so (Josh Brolin) actors apparently again left to their own devices.
Imperfect, impossible and irascible dads are in heavy rotation this fall, with comedic paternal roles drawing big-ticket names including Robin Williams, Michael J. Fox, Peter Riegert and now James Caan.
Secondary ticketing, the name for tickets that are resold as opposed to "primary" tickets released at face value, has attracted increasing scrutiny of late.
And unlike many of the no-name governors mentioned, Edwards brings to the ticket instant name recognition.
The vigorous, ultra-masculine, NASCAR-inflected sound of the ticket's name.
But the rightful winner of the $3 million ticket, whose name was not released, had already signed it.
By Hendrik Hertzberg August 11 , 2012The vigorous, ultra-masculine, NASCAR-inflected sound of the ticket's name.
