FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 1, 2011
Contact: Lacey Leffler
Director of Marketing
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THE MONKEES CELEBRATE THEIR 45th ANNIVERSARY BY
HITTING THE ROAD FOR FIRST LIVE PERFORMANCES IN A DECADE
Original Members
Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz & Peter Tork Announce
An Evening with The Monkees - The 45th Anniversary Tour
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The Monkees to Perform at Pantages Theater on July 8, 2011
Tacoma, WA - Here they come…again…hey, hey, it’s The Monkees! 45 years after their groundbreaking show and hit singles first took televisions and record players by storm, original Monkees members Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Peter Torkhave announced a new tour to dazzle five decades’ worth of fans. An Evening with The Monkees - The 45th Anniversary Tour will come to Broadway Center’s Pantages Theater in Tacoma on Friday, July 8, 2011. These shows mark the first live performances by the band in a full decade, and are sure to draw yet another generation of fans to their one-of-a-kind mix of music and comedy.
Tickets go on sale Friday, March 4, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. and are $69, $79, $89 and $175. The $175 tickets include a pre-show Meet & Greet for 100 VIP guests and includes appetizers and one free beverage coupon. Tickets may be purchased through the Broadway Center Box Office at 253.591.5894, toll-free at 1.800.291.7593, in person at 901 Broadway in Tacoma’s Theater District or at www.broadwaycenter.org. Tickets are subject to applicable service charges. Fans should check local listings and www.facebook.com/MonkeesTour for updated tour information.
On The Monkees 45th Anniversary Tour, audiences will get a full multimedia experience celebrating nearly a half-century of the band’s legacy. Jones, Dolenz and Tork will appear live on stage to perform all of their mega-hits including “I’m a Believer,”“Last Train to Clarksville,” “Daydream Believer,” “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone,” “Valleri” and, for the first time ever on stage, songs from their classic albums and rarely heard selections from their cult classic movie, Head. In addition, songs and videos will be broadcast throughout the venue to provide a soundtrack before and after the main show, featuring Monkees rarities as well as covers by the legions of past and present artists they’ve influenced over their long career.
Formed in Los Angeles in 1966, The Monkees debuted on television screens with their eponymous NBC series and #1 hit single “Last Train to Clarksville.” The show was a smash success over its two-season run, winning two Emmy Awards. While becoming pop culture icons, the band’s musical accomplishments were just as impressive, as The Monkees are among the top-selling artists of all time. They scored a dozen Billboard Top 40 hits—outselling both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in 1967—as well as Top 10 hits in more than 25 countries. The Monkees are the only artists ever to have four #1 albums in the same year, and they also enjoyed the top-grossing tours of both 1967 and 1986, when they performed 145 dates in North America alone. MTV and Nickelodeon’s re-broadcasts of original episodes of The Monkees ignited a whole new era of “Monkeemania” in the 1980s, as younger generations discovered the group for the first time. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, the band’s original members have reformed for albums of new material as well as anniversary tours and TV specials. The Monkees tour in 2011 will continue their epic legacy into yet another decade.
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The Broadway Center for the Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges the following for support of the 2010-11 Season: ArtsFund, Ben B. Cheney Foundation, The Boeing Company, City of Tacoma, Forest Foundation, The News Tribune, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust and Sequoia Foundation Pierce County Program.