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L-Acoustics Promotes Palmer, Adds Pellicano

L-Acoustics Promotes Palmer, Adds Pellicano

Posted by | May 9, 2019 | , ,

Dan Palmer and Gino Pellicano.  Pair will work out of audio company’s LA-area office Gino Pellicano joins, and Dan Palmer is promoted, at L-Acoustics’ sports facilities and consultant outreach team. Pellicano is the new application manager; Palmer has been promoted to business development manager for sports facilities in the U.S. and Canada. Palmer has been with L-Acoustics for 10 years. Pellicano comes from Powersoft, where he served as market development and applications manager for North America. Before that, he worked as a project engineer for Burbank, Calif.-based Electrosonic, following several years as an applications engineer at Eastern Acoustic Works. Pellicano has also held design/consultant positions at Technomedia Solutions and SIA Acoustics. Both will be based out of the company’s office in Westlake Village, Calif.

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Roller Coaster Puts Jersey Sales on Incline

Roller Coaster Puts Jersey Sales on Incline

Posted by | May 3, 2019 |

The Atlanta Braves have a jersey coaster at SunTrust Park. (Courtesy Silver Crystal Sports) Installation helps move merchandise, literally and figuratively, at venues When Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena wanted to try something different with its team jersey operation, it turned to Silver Crystal Sports, the company that put team jersey roller coasters in Atlanta’s new baseball stadium, SunTrust Park, and other facilities. “I’ve seen them around and was really impressed with the concept,” said Dave Urso, Bridgestone’s senior vice president of operations. “We had just come off a Stanley Cup (Finals) year, where we had a new jersey with a switch from Reebok to Adidas, which meant a lot of sales of jerseys.” Urso and the team wanted a way to keep the momentum going. “This way of presenting the jerseys makes the jerseys highly visible to the fans — and highly desirable,” he said. “This takes the whole operation out… Continue Reading Roller Coaster Puts Jersey Sales on Incline

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Theaters Offer Madea a Last Round of Applause

Theaters Offer Madea a Last Round of Applause

Posted by | May 3, 2019 | ,

Tyler Perry and cast in “Madea’s Farewell Play Tour,” the last hurrah for Perry’s irascible character. (Courtesy Tyler Perry Studios) Tyler Perry’s most famous character leaves a trail of sold-out shows as she nears the end of her final tour   Tyler Perry’s Madea character was not supposed to be the star of the touring stage shows and movies that eventually became a $500 million juggernaut. In the original 1999 play, “I Can Do Bad All By Myself,” the always loud, often tough, sometimes violent and mainly loveable matriarch of the Simmons family was supposed to be onstage for only two minutes. But the last-minute cancellation of the star of the show forced Perry to take on all of the star’s lines at Chicago’s Regal Theater that night. The crowd roared, Madea stole the show, and a franchise was born. Twenty years later, Madea has appeared in 11 stage shows… Continue Reading Theaters Offer Madea a Last Round of Applause

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Management: May 2019

Posted by | May 3, 2019 | ,

Move of the Month Joan Roebuck-Carter (pictured) will join the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia on June 3 as senior vice president of institutional advancement. Roebuck-Carter for eight years was senior director of development and institutional support at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, also in Philadelphia. Before working in development, Roebuck-Carter worked in television production, starting in TV news in Pittsburgh and later serving as senior associate producer at “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” She moved into arts fundraising at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1998. The move follows the announcement by Nancy Newman, Mann executive vice president, that after 20 years she would step down from her position in the summer. Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland hired Brooke Bockelman as vice president of booking. Bockelman was director of booking for Columbus Arena Sports & Entertainment. SMG named Joe Giordano assistant general manager of BOK… Continue Reading Management: May 2019

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