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Show Concerts fight for weekend audiences they can't go to both shows, and either one will be painful to pass up. When you split crowds, the profits go down. And it would have been so easy to put one show on Friday, and one on Saturday. It wouldn't be so bad if this was the first case of poor i planning but it isn't. It seems like the local promoters are almost in a contest to see who can pull out the most people for their show, leaving another auditorium barren. bar-ren. Usually, however, the competition com-petition leaves two auditoriums half-full. i ' A i" J J ) A i ! BY RICHARD ROMNEY Entertainment Editor There are going to be two shows trying to capture the college col-lege audience (among others) on May 7. Ike and Tina Turner will appear in the Sports and Special Events Center at 8 p.m., while Neil Diamond Dia-mond will mount the stage at the Salt Palace a half-hour later the j same evening. It will be a difficult decision to ; pick one show over the other, and ; the situation illustrates poor plan- i ning on the part of downtown radio station KCPX, not the Spe- I cial Events Center and Artists and ' Speakers Committee, who sched- ! ueled Ike and Tina long before anyone had Neil Diamond's signature signa-ture on the dotted contract line. Not to downplay Diamond's sterling talent. He puts on a fine show. But scheduling him on the same night as Ike and Tina hurts everyone involved-the promoters, who don't get as much money, the sponsors, who sell fewer tickets, tic-kets, and the audiences-because Nick Barbar, 12, left, and Craig Pease, 13, rehearse roles for Children's Theater Production of "The Prince and the Pauper." |