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Monday Night Pool Tourney • Sign Up 6:30, starts 7.00 Free Pool Sunday & Tuesday Evening. 2657 Willamette • 344-0816 Neighbors v Bar and Bistro 1417 Villard • Eugene, OR 97403 • (541) 338-0334 presents Victoria Venom's , HI III> aiaii r benefit show for $2 donation HIV ALLIANCE Wednesday Nights Starting April 1st • 6pm Music, 8pm Show in our outdoor patio! Riverdance: The ‘Riverdance’ craze is a nationwide phenomenon ■ Continued from Page 7 million-plus people worldwide who have seen the spectacle. As of press time Thursday, ab solutely no tickets were avail able for any of its eight Eugene performances. “['Riverdance’J is one of the fastest-selling shows in the histo ry of ticket sales at the Hult Cen ter,” said Erick Hoffman, market ing and programming manager for the Hult Center. Tickets, which went on sale immediately following the visit of “Les Miser ables” in September, sold out al most immediately and have been virtually unavailable since. Penny, a box office representa tive at the Hult who declined to give her last name, said it’s al most impossible to gauge how many ticket-seekers have been turned away empty-handed. “The day tickets went on sale there were long lines out the door,” she said. "There were people calling us on the phones and standing in line.” Amy Williams, a junior educa tional studies major, was one of the lucky few who walked away with the coveted prize. She and her roommate stood in line at the EMU for about half an hour the day tickets went on sale. “We weren’t sure we’d get them,” she said. “We wanted to get there as soon as the box of fice opened, but we got there late.” However, she said, getting tickets wasn’t a problem. “Everybody was kind of ner vous. The people in front of us had a cell phone, and they kept dialing in to see if they could get tickets over the phone before they got to the front. And they did,” she said. The “Riverdance” craze is not indigenous to Eugene. The tour has sold out every performance so far, is booked well into 1999 and currently has no end date, said Anne Abrams, a tour press representative for the show. The Irish song-and-dance show has borne similar success since its Dublin debut in 1994. "Riverdance” began as a mere 7 minute intermission entertain ment for the year’s Eurovision Song Contest, and it incited such popularity and critical acclaim that it was expanded into a full length stage production. The focus of the show is the evolution of Irish dance and its interaction with other cultures. At its foundation is Irish step dancing, a series of tapping, kicking and clogging moves made while the upper body is held stiff. The dancing is choreo graphed by Michael Flatley, who went on to produce his own popular show, “Lords of the Dance.” In the meantime, “River dance” has toured Europe, been broadcast worldwide on televi sion, won a Grammy for Best Musical Show Album and sold more than 3 million video copies. The original company fea tured in these televised and video versions no longer exists and is not the one that will visit Eugene, Abrams said. Currently there are three different compa nies touring the world, and the newest one, which debuted in Vancouver, B.C., in January, will stop at the Hult Center. But Abrams said not to expect a lower quality show. “Every body with ‘Riverdance’ is sub jected to the same standards as far as quality of performance,” she said. Although tickets are currently sold out for all Hult Center per formances, Hoffman said there is always the possibility that some tickets will be returned or that the show’s promoter will release a few extra tickets at the last minute. “It’s not uncommon for a few to surface here and there,” he said. Those who are interested should continue to contact the box office at 682-5000. </> o HOME OF THE MEGA DEAL 1856 E. 13th L MEDIUM ® 1 TOPPING PIZZA 343-3030 not valid with any other otter, expires 4/30/98 J Billy Com Imni i. 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