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Bruno Mars presented the Icon award at the Billboard Music Awards on May 20 in Las Vegas. He added a second Hawaii show today.
What started out as a frustrating morning for Hawaii’s Bruno Mars fans added a glimmer of hope just before noon today when the pop star announced on Twitter that he will perform a second show at Aloha Stadium on Nov. 11.
Tickets for the added show on Mars’ 24K Magic World Tour will go on sale to the general public — no preference for Hawaii residents — at 10 a.m. on June 16 at the Aloha Stadium box office and on Ticketmaster’s website and app, promoter Live Nation announced shortly after.
Tickets for the first show, scheduled for Nov. 10, went on sale at 10 a.m. today to Hawaii residents only, and social media was deluged with complaints from fans who came up empty.
At the time of Mars’ tweet, there were only a handful of seats left for under $400, and fans who tried to pluck those, received the following message: “Another fan beat you to those seats in that row. Here’s your best option in another row.” along with the offer of alternate tickets in the price range.
Clicking to buy those would sometimes result in the same message leading to another pair of seats (or even the first set offered), or to a new message: “Sorry! We could not find any tickets that meet your requirements. Please adjust your criteria and try again.”
The dead end led many fans to abandon the pursuit in hopes that a long-rumored second show would be added. At 11:37 a.m., Mars confirmed a deal was struck.
Mars last performed in Hawaii in April 2014, when he sold out three shows at the Blaisdell Arena and many fans were left without tickets due to fast sales. His popularity has grown rapidly since, with another hit album — “24K Magic,” which features several hits, including the title track and “That’s What I Like” — a one-hour special on CBS and a sweep of the major categories at this year’s Grammy Awards.
Stadium management said last week that about 36,000 seats would be available for each show. Base ticket prices for both range from $49.50 to $125 plus fees, but some tickets for the first show were priced much higher — some over $1,300 apiece — under a practice Ticketmaster referred to as dynamic pricing, with the cost going up and down based on demand. Both shows are scheduled to start at 7 p.m., with gates opening 90 minutes prior.
As with the first show, The Green and Common Kings will be opening acts.
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