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Ricky Martin’s
Blaisdell shows
near sellout

The promoter may add seats
if the configuration can
be worked out

Tickets Live

By Tim Ryan
Star-Bulletin

About 14,000 seats for Ricky Martin's two shows at the Blaisdell Arena Sunday and Monday are nearly sold out, the promoter said.

But once the stage is installed this week, promoter Marek Lieberberg may make an additional 100 seats available for each show, said Jacky Jedlicki, vice president of Lieberberg Productions."We have to see how all the sound boxes will fit and not obscure views," he said.

The show was to have been at Aloha Stadium, which holds more than 30,000 for concerts. But last week it was moved to the arena, which seats about 7,000 for concerts, because stadium staging wasn't available, Jedlicki said.

Jedlicki said the switch to the arena was not due to poor ticket sales but because the stadium stage wasn't finished.

Stage delays also led to the postponement of Martin's shows in Australia and Asia, promoters there said.

"Ricky didn't want to do a 'B' show in Hawaii but an 'A' show, so we had to move it to the arena," Jedlicki said.

Lieberberg Productions, which is shipping Martin's indoor stage to Hawaii from Europe, was "confident" the Martin Aloha Stadium show would have sold "more than 20,000 tickets.

"The move has never been ... about money. It was either move it or cancel it" because of the staging problem, Jedlicki said.

The diamond-shaped indoor stage to be used in Hawaii must sit at the makai end of the arena because of the hanging points for lights and other special effects.

A Sony Jumbotron television will be hung at the rear of the stage.

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