1. Â Impressive.
2. Â When all tickets are “$10” plus a $2 fee it is much easier to say “all tickets are $12.” Â Cut the crap and as Khan would say, “Don’t insult my intelligence.”
MORE THAN 20,000 FANS EXPECTED FOR
BILLY JOEL’S DOCUMENTARY FILM
“THE LAST PLAY AT SHEAâ€
THIS SATURDAY NIGHT, AUGUST 21 AT 8:00 P.M. AT CITI FIELD
Pre-Film Programming Includes Trivia Contests and Prize Giveaways;
Gates Open at 6:00 p.m.
Tickets Are Available Online at www.507TIXX.com, by Phone at (718) 507-TIXX,
And at the Citi Field Advance Ticket Window
FLUSHING, N.Y., August 19, 2010 – More than 20,000 fans are expected to attend the premiere of Billy Joel’s documentary film “The Last Play at Shea†this Saturday night, August 21 at 8:00 p.m. at Citi Field. The event will mark the biggest outdoor movie presentation since 1919.
All tickets are priced at $10, available online at www.507TIXX.com and by phone at (718) 507-TIXX, with each ticket carrying a $2 per-ticket service charge. The Citi Field Advance Window, on the third base side of the Jackie Robinson Rotunda, will be selling tickets without service charges through Saturday night. The show is rain or shine, and parking costs $5.
Fans will be entertained before the show starting at 6:00 p.m. with music, trivia contests, prize giveaways, and Mr. Met meet and greets.
On July 16 and 18, 2008, Billy Joel sold out the last concerts ever held at Shea Stadium, before a combined 110,000 fans.
“The Last Play at Shea,†produced by Steve Cohen and Nigel Sinclair, in conjunction with Billy Joel’s Maritime Pictures and Spitfire Films, examines the intersecting histories of a stadium, a team, and a music legend. The movie chronicles the life and career of Long Island native Billy Joel and parallels the history of both the Mets and their former home, Shea Stadium. Set to the soundtrack of Joel’s final Shea concerts, Last Play interweaves personal Joel interviews with exclusive concert footage featuring guests Tony Bennett, Garth Brooks, John Mayer, Roger Daltrey, Steven Tyler and Sir Paul McCartney plus Mets greats, past and present. Shea Stadium’s musical send-off was a fitting tribute to the venue that hosted memorable concert events over the years, beginning with The Beatles in 1965.
The showing of “The Last Play at Shea†at Citi Field is expected to be the biggest outdoor movie presentation since “Motion Picture Day,†held July 4, 1919, in Columbus, Ohio. The studios of D.W. Griffith, Paramount Pictures and Famous Players-Lasky showed many of the films starring the most popular silent film actors of the time including Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
For more information on “The Last Play at Shea†movie premiere, visit www.billyjoel.com or www.507TIXX.com.
I really do not get paying to watch a movie, at a stadium about the old stadium from 2 yrs ago. I wouldn’t even buy the DVD. I don’t even think I would watch it for free on SNY. Now the concert itself at the time would have been cool to go to. I don’t get it.
Im going just for the 5 dollar parking !!!
It’s still better than the more than 200 different possible seat prices for every Met game.
It’s a really good film. I saw it at the Tribeca film festival. Between the music, the stuff about Joel’s life, and the way the people who made it connect it all to Shea Stadium, the Mets, and New York, I think it’s going to be interesting to a lot of people, Mets fans, Joel fans, Beatles fans, etc. It certainly got the crowd at the Tribeca film festival into it.
Twenty thousand people??? No way that will happen…someone is dreamimg!
Gotta be sure to count the free giveaways and empty seats!
It probably will be something close to 20K. I can’t believe that they would say that unless the number of tickets that have been sold gave them reason to say it. It would be embarrassing otherwise.
i wonder if they gave any tickets to the former season ticket holders like they do to mets games to try to get them back?