‘Fun, Fun, Fun’: Tickets on sale for arena’s Beach Boys ’15 show
The newly renovated Tucson Arena will get its first test drive as a concert venue on Jan. 3, when the Beach Boys come to town.
Tickets — $25 and $35 — are on sale now through ticketmaster.com
The concert is underwritten by Rio Nuevo, Concorde Construction and SMG Worldwide Entertainment.
“It’s really our hope to allow people to see the new venue in concert form. It will have all new sound and lights and new seats. New bathrooms. A new entrance to the breezeway,” said Fletcher McCusker, chairman of Rio Nuevo.
This will be the first time Tucson will experience the arena as a concert venue since its $8 million renovation that included new lighting and sound systems, new seats, new restrooms and new concessions. McCusker said the arena’s hard seats were replaced by cushioned ones and the bathrooms were completely redone from the stalls to the toilets.
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The project took the better part of the last year, he said.
SMG Worldwide Entertainment, a global entertainment management team that runs arenas throughout the country, took over management of the facility three weeks ago.
Rialto hosting spooky prom
Rialto Theatre is going Halloween on us on Friday with a spooky prom, featuring a cast of local bands with names that fit the theme: Numb Bats, Prom Body, Neon Eon, Ghostal, Sun Bones and Altrice.
The all-ages show starts at 8 p.m. and drags into the bewitching hour of midnight. Wear a costume and you might win cash. With or without a costume you can get free candy.
Doors open at 7 at the Rialto, 318 E. Congress St.; $5 at the door.
• Coming next Thursday: Folk singer-songwriter Patty Griffin with John Fullbright; $22-$40 at ticketfly.com
Also this week
•Israeli musician David Broza is at the Fox Tucson Theatre at 7 tonight.The show is in support of his Steve Earle-produced album “East Jerusalem West Jerusalem.” $23 to $54 at foxtucsontheatre.ticketforce.com or the box office, 17 W. Congress St.
• Chica Dust and DJ’s Dirtyverbs, PC Party and Rip Dee bring out the scare at Club Congress’s 21-and-older Halloween Party. It starts at 8 p.m. Friday at Congress, 311 E. Congress St.; $5 at the door at at ticketfly.com
Cathalena E. Burch
