SOLD OUT: Tickets for BCPAC’s opening show, “America’s Got
Talent” winner ventriloquist Terry Fator, are sold out – even
before the rest of the season has been announced.
What about season subscribers? What about someone who still
wants a ticket?
BCPAC president Karen Buchheit says: “After The Era announced
that Terry Fator would open our season, we were inundated with
orders. Here’s what ticket-seekers can do.”
Season subscribers are safe. “If you renew your subscription
when you get the brochure in September, you’re in,” Karen said.
If you’re not a subscriber, the only way now to ensure a Terry
ticket is to become one. “Subscribers get first choice,” she
said.
If you’ve already ordered a single ticket, count yourself
lucky.
If this show is proving to be so popular, why wasn’t it booked
into the 1,400-seat Bradford Area High School Auditorium?
“Terry Fator’s fee would have been substantially more in the
larger venue,” Karen tells us. “And the additional technical
support in the bigger space would have been more expensive, too, as
well as additional costs for marketing to sell 800 more
tickets.
“Also, we thought Terry’s show would be so much better in the
intimate, 600-seat Bromeley Family Theater in Blaisdell Hall. And
we hoped that Terry would generate this kind of excitement and spur
on sales of season subscriptions where a Terry Fator ticket is
guaranteed. I think Terry and the puppets are doing just that.
“After we announce the rest of the season shows around Labor
Day,” she said, “most people will think that that subscribing is
the way to go. We have a great season for BCPAC 25th anniversary.
Terry is just the start!”
HEAVY LOAD: Public radio carried a story the other day about the
brazen thefts of manhole covers right off the city streets in a
number of locales, creating a significant problem for pedestrians
and motorists alike. In one city, 80 a day were being removed –
quite a feat considering each weighs about 240 pounds.
Why, you might ask? To meet the demand for valuable metals, even
such “scrap” metal.
We don’t think we’re putting the idea in the heads of would-be
crooks in Bradford because, honestly, we don’t think they read
Round the Square. Besides, thieves could never get away with it in
our small towns.
