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Sesame Street Live is taking over the Dodge Theater for a few days in early May. Here is some info on the show from the wiki:

Sesame Street Live is the live touring show based on the children’s television show Sesame Street.

Produced by Minneapolis-based VEE Corporation, the show opened on September 17, 1980, with a production of Sesame Street Live “Missing Bird Mystery” playing at the Met Center in Bloomington, MN. Sesame Street Live is now produced as three or four separate tours, each performing a different show, with its own plot, characters, scenery, and soundtrack. Shows are performed in arenas and theatres around the world, generally working on an eight to ten month touring schedule ending in the spring and resuming in the late summer. While in the United States, Sesame Street Live is a bus and truck show, with the equipment moving by two or three trucks and the personnel travelling by bus. (This is contrasted with a show that travels by rail, such as the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.) Outside of the US, air cargo and sea containers are used.

The shows feature original music scores and songs, complemented with old favorites from the show, and professional dancers as costumed characters performing the parts of the Muppets. The productions are done in a theatrical style. In an arena, a stage is built and a false proscenium is created to make the experience more similar to going to a theatre.

It ought to be a blast for the kids. If you are having trouble finding tickets to this show at the Dogde Theater box office here is where you should look for after market tickets:

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Ok so My Little Pony Live is coming to Jobing.com arena in Glendale soon. It turns out that this show is produced by the same people who do Sesame Street Live. The idea is that it is like a play (musical actually) but the actors are the My Little Pony, umm, ponies. My Little Pony has been a favorite for little girls for a long time now. We get this from wikipedia:
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Pro Rasslin’s is coming into town folks — the show is Phoenix will be at the US Airways Center.. This is a good time just waitin’to happen. For some reason the antics of pro wrestlers seem to have a timeless appeal. The latest big show will feature the following current werestling stars:

“WWE AND WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPION JOHN CENA
WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPION SHAWN MICHAELS
RIC FLAIR
EDGE
RANDY ORTON
UMAGA
ARMANDO ESTRADACARLITO
THE GREAT KHALI
INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPION JEFF HARDY
JOHNNY NITRO
MELINA
SHELTON BENJAMIN
CRYME TYME
WOMEN’S CHAMPION MICKIE JAMES
VICTORIA
CANDICE MICHELLE
TORRIE WILSON
AND MANY MORE!”

Anyway, if you don’t find the seats that you want to this spectacle through the box office here are you best after market ticket vendor options:
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Comedian Ron White has a gig scheduled at the Dodge Theater soon. You’ll recognize Ron from his participation in the Blue Collar Comedy Tour (although he wasn’t on Blue Collar TV). This show is likely to sell out so if you can’t find the tickets you want at the box office here are the best ticket brokers to check:

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So some people think I look a bit like Anthony Wiggle… Not sure what to think about that. But a few years ago I did dress in a Wiggles costume at Halloween with some other dads. I won honorable mention in a swanky costume party with that get-up! (The party host had a toddler too it turns out.)

Anyway the Wiggles will be at the Dogde Theater soon. If you are having trouble getting the quality seats you were hoping for through the box office never fear — there is always a ticket broker happy to sell you some after market tickets. Here are the best of the after market ticket vendors:
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Disney On Ice is coming into Phoenix again for three days worth of shows at the US Airways Center. The theme this time around is Pixar’s Monsters Inc. and it ought to be a big hit with the little ones. Hey - what’s not to love about a huge furry Sully ice skating? Anyway, if you don’t find the seats you want through the box office here are you best after market ticket vendor options:
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Comedian Ralphie May is coming to Phoenix for a show at the Celebrity Theater. His shtick is partially that he is morbidly obese, though rumor has it he has dropped all the way down to 365 pounds. I hear he was more than twice that heavy at one point! Anyway, if you can’t find the tickets you need to this show at the box office here are the places to shop for after market tickets:
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Comedian George Lopez has a few upcoming shows scheduled at the Dogde Theater. If you are having trouble getting the quality seats you were hoping for never fear — there is always a ticket broker happy to sell you some after market tickets. Here are the best of the after market vendors:
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I am clearly not the target market for this show…

Ok, so I guess Chita Rivera is a famous dancer from back in the day. She became a huge star on Broadway in the 50’s. Apparently she remains a star in the eyes of a lot of people because the ticket brokers have bought up a lot of tickets to this show (and that means they expect it to sell out.) Well if that is the case then I say good for Ms. Rivera. (I must admit; she does have a pretty cool name.)

Anyway, if you are looking to see this show at the Gammage Auditorium over at ASU in Tempe (Phoenix) and aren’t finding what you need at the box office here is where you should shop:

AIW Tickets has tickets to three shows starting at $85
Stubhub is worth checking
TicketsNow has tickets at $95
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When I was a kid a had an embarrassing moment at a magic show. We kids were sitting in front of the stage and the magician did a trick where he dropped a guillotine on an audience member’s head, severing a carrot but leaving the head of the person untouched. It was a pretty cool trick actually. The thing was that the severed carrot fell in front of the stage where I was sitting. I picked it up and looked around wondering I should do with this carrot (I mean it could have been still needed for the show right?) The girl next to me told me to throw it back on stage. In retrospect I now know that she meant just toss it gently back up there… but at the time I hauled back and hucked it at the magician. It grazed his ear as it whizzed by. He wasn’t amused. He asked for the parents of the kid in the front to come get me. My dad wasn’t too pleased either.

Anyway, I don’t recommend you huck any carrots at David Copperfield if you go to this show. Tickets ain’t cheap and you’d probably get tossed from the Dogde Theater is you did…

Anyway, if you are looking for tickets to this show and the box office doesn’t cut it for you here is where you should look:

1. AIW Tickets has seats starting at $100

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So it turns out Cedric the Entertainer does more than commercials and an occasional movie still. He is bringing his live act to Phoenix soon for a show at the Dogde Theater. Ced’s wiki says this about him:

Cedric the Entertainer (born Cedric Antonio Kyles, April 24, 1964 in Jefferson City, Missouri) is an American actor and comedian. The self-assumed title “The Entertainer” comes from his early days as a comedian when he also sang and danced… In 1996, Cedric moved into acting, playing Steve Harvey’s friend, Cedric Jackie Robinson, on his sitcom, The Steve Harvey Show. His acting career grew and he began appearing in movies, including Big Momma’s House, Dr. Dolittle 2, Barbershop, Barbershop 2, Serving Sara, Johnson Family Vacation, Intolerable Cruelty, Man of the House, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Be Cool.

Tickets to this show are likely to be hard to come by so if you can’t find the seats you need at the box office here is where you ought to look online:

1. AIW Tickets has seats starting at $125

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So a show called Legends (or is it “Legends!”?) is set for a multi-night showing at the Orpheum Theater in Phoenix. As far as I can tell this is a big celebrity impersonator fest with Elvis, Prince, Madonna and other impersonators putting on shows. The ticket brokers have been snapping up tickets so it must be a fun show that will sell out pretty quickly. If you are having trouble getting the tickets you want at the Orpheum box office here are the places you ought to try next:

1. AIW Tickets has seats starting at $75

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is coming to Phoenix’s (actually Tempe’s) Gammage Auditorium. Can you spell? Want to test your spelling skills on stage with the actors? You can’t try if you don’t have tickets! Here’s what you do.

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Yes, the Harlem Globetrotters are still around. Word has it they still put on a good show too. The good news for us in the desert is they are bringing their traveling show to the US Airways Center in Phoenix soon. The Globetrotters wiki says:

The Harlem Globetrotters are a basketball team that combines athleticism and comedy to create one of the best-known sports entertainment franchises in the world. Created by Abe Saperstein in 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, the team adopted the name Harlem because of its connotations as a leading African-American community. Over the years it has toured more than 100 countries, playing more than 20,000 exhibition games, mostly against deliberately ineffective opposition like the Washington Generals (1953–1995) and the New York Nationals (1995–present).

If you are looking for tickets to the big show here is where we recommend you hunt:

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Disney On Ice is coming back to Phoenix. The latest variation on the show is called “Disney On Ice: Disneyland Adventure” whatever that means. I took my little girls to Disney on ice a few years back and they liked it. I survived too. One this is for sure, these things tend to do really well and even sell out on occasion. The wiki says this:

Disney on Ice is a touring ice show produced by Feld Entertainment under agreement with The Walt Disney Company. Aimed primarily at children, the shows feature figure skaters dressed as Disney cartoon characters in performances that derive music and plot from the various Disney films; the “stars” of the show are the Disney characters themselves rather than the skaters.

If you are having trouble getting the tickets you want for this show here are the places you ought to check out:
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The legendary comedian Bill Cosby will be in town at the Dodge Theater soon. Cosby is fixin’ to crack 70 but he is still at it. I assume this tour is in support of his new comedy album reportedly called “The House of Blues Cosby”. His wiki says this about him:

William Henry “Bill” Cosby, Jr., Ed.D. (born July 12, 1937) is an American actor, comedian, television producer, and activist. He received an Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts for his doctoral thesis on Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, an educational children’s cartoon series he created.

Anyway, this is a pretty hot ticket here in Phoenix so is you are looking to get seats here are the places we recommend you check:
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Hey, what screams “Christmas” more than a ballet about a girl who gets magically shrunken and then fights a magical evil rat king? Apparently not much. And once again there is a top-flight production of the Nutcracker playing this December in Phoenix. The music is as beautiful as ever and the dancing makes for a lovely experience every time. Here is a little trivia on the Nutcracker from the wiki:

The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, English: Shchelkunchik), Op. 71, is a fairy-ballet in two acts, three tableaux, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1891–1892, and based on The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (German: Nußknacker und Mausekönig), a story by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1816). Alexandre Dumas’ adaptation of the story was set to music by Tchaikovsky (after the libretto of Marius Petipa) and has become the most popular ballet performed around Christmas time. It is appealing to children and adults alike and has been a standard yearly feature of theatres in many cities. A selection of eight of the more popular numbers from the ballet was made by the composer, forming The Nutcracker Suite, designed for concert performance. The titles of the ballet (simply The Nutcracker) and the suite (The Nutcracker Suite) are frequently confused.

Tchaikovsky composed the ballet in 1891–1892, but he was unsatisfied with it and considered it to be one of his less successful pieces.

The first performance of the ballet was held as a double premiere together with Tchaikovsky’s last opera Iolanta on December 6/18, 1892, at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia. The ballet was conducted by Riccardo Drigo and choreographed by Lev Ivanov. However, this performance had just limited success.

The current popularity of The Nutcracker is due in part to Willam Christensen, former Ballet master of the San Francisco Ballet, who imported the work to the United States in 1944. The success of the ballet and George Balanchine’s choreography for his own 1954 version created a winter tradition of Nutcracker performances in the United States.

Ok, so on to where you should hunt for tickets. The box office is always a good place to start, but tickets sell out fast so here is where you should look to find just to the tickets you want:
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You gotta hand it to the folks at Disney — they know how to promote their cra… err… stuff. They have created a newish batch of that stuff in the form of High School Musical - The Concert. If I have this right, I guess this is the traveling road show of the made for tv movie that my 9 year old daughter and her friends were very interested in called High School - The Musical, or High School Musical or something. I couldn’t bring myself to watch it but based on the ads it looks like dreamy hoops star longs to sing or some such nonsense. I’m sure drama and hilarity abounded…

Anyway, if you need to get tickets for yourself and a daughter or something we have done some research and here are the best after market sources for excellent seats to this tour stop at Jobing.com (Glendale) Arena: (more…)

The Blue Man Group’s “How To Be A Megastar Tour” show is coming to Phoenix Arizona to the Dodge Theater. Tickets are hard to come by but we’ve got ya covered.

StubHub has tickets ranging from $70-400+
We Have Seats is selling all sorts of tickets ranging from $87-400+
TicketsNow is worth checking too

Here is some info on the Blue Man Group from their wiki:

Blue Man Group (BMG) is a creative organization centered on a trio of mute performers, called Blue Men, that present themselves in blue paint, latex bald caps, and black clothing.

Blue Man Group’s theatrical acts incorporate rock music (with an emphasis on percussion), odd props, audience participation, sophisticated lighting, and large amounts of paper. It is also noted for having a “poncho section” of the audience; in the front rows, audience members are provided with plastic ponchos in order to protect them from various foods, substances, paints, and so on, which get thrown, ejected, or sprayed from the stage. The shows are family-oriented, humorous, energetic and often employ thought-provoking satire on modern life. Much of the humor breaks the fourth wall, for example, interrupting the show to ridicule latecomers in the audience.

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Dance has made a TV comeback. Between Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance, cutting the rug isall the rage on TV now. Well the traveling raod show is coming to Phoenix at the newly renamed Jobing.com Arena (formerly Glendale Arena). The Ticket brokers have been getting their hands on a lot of the best seats so if you are in need of good seats to the show here are the best places to hunt online:

Stubhub has a few tickets now and will let you sell your extra seats too

Here is some info from the U.S. Dancing with the Stars wiki:

Dancing with the Stars is a reality show airing on ABC in the United States. The show is based on the British BBC TV series Strictly Come Dancing and is part of the international Dancing with the Stars franchise.

The concept of the show is to pair a celebrity with a professional dancer in an attempt to win a high score from a panel of three judges and then a high number of votes from the viewers, who can call in and vote online. The person who receives the lowest score is eliminated, but they are allowed to dance one last dance at the end of the show.

The current co-hosts are Tom Bergeron and Samantha Harris. In season 1, Bergeron’s co-host was Lisa Canning. The panel of judges is Len Goodman (head judge), Carrie Ann Inaba, and Bruno Tonioli. Harold Wheeler is the musical director. The announcements for the show’s titles and dance introductions were recorded in the United Kingdom by Alan Dedicoat.

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Season three (premiered September 12, 2006) expanded from ten couples to eleven. Celebrity participants for season three of the USA edition of Dancing with the Stars are:

* Tucker Carlson, political pundit/MSNBC news anchor – partner Elena Grinenko (eliminated first)
* Monique Coleman, actress - partner Louis van Amstel
* Sara Evans, singer - partner Tony Dovolani (withdrew during sixth week)
* Willa Ford, singer - partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy (eliminated fifth)
* Vivica A. Fox, actress – partner Nick Kosovich (eliminated fourth)
* Harry Hamlin, actor – partner Ashly DelGrosso (eliminated third)
* Joey Lawrence, actor – partner Edyta Sliwinska
* Mario Lopez, actor/TV host – partner Karina Smirnoff
* Shanna Moakler, beauty queen/reality television star - partner Jesse DeSoto (eliminated second)
* Emmitt Smith, NFL running back – partner Cheryl Burke
* Jerry Springer, talk show host/former politician – partner Kym Johnson (former champion of Australian version of Dancing with the Stars) (eliminated sixth)

* As part of Slim Fast Dance Challenge: Tysonia Sichinga and Christian Perry

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Alright, I admit it: The Doodlebops kinda creep me out. My toddler likes the show well enough but I cringe every time it comes on. Seems too similar to the weird psychedelic stuff from decades past like HR Puff n Stuff and that always creeped me out as a kid. Plus, the whole music dance theater thing that the doodle bops reek of just ain’t my thing.

But let’s face it — The Doodlebops are not targeted toward dads; the Doodlebops are targeted toward little kids and little kids eat this kind of stuff up. So if you are looking for primo seats to their Phoenix show we have you covered.

Stubhub has excellent tickets (including front row seats) ranging from $55-160.
We Have Seats has similarly excellent seats ranging from $69-145.
Ticketsnow has many of the same seats ranging from $75-165

And for your reading pleasure here is some more info on the Doodlebops:

The Doodlebops is a Canadian musical comedy series for preschool children. Beginning its broadcasting run in 2004, the series, produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment airs on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Canada in the CBC Kids morning block, and on the Disney Channel in the USA as part of the Playhouse Disney morning programming schedule. The series stars are Lisa J. Lennox as Deedee Doodle, Chad McNamara as Rooney Doodle, and Jonathan Wexler as Moe Doodle.

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