Filipino boxing champ Manny Pacquiao’s scheduled concert at Waikiki Shell in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 21 has been cancelled due to poor ticket sales.
According to a report published by the Honolulu Advertiser on March 17, Ryan Chang of Island Fire Productions claimed that only 603 out of the 8,500 seats of the venue for the “Manny Pacquiao Live in Hawaii Concert Celebration” have been sold so far.
The ticket prices range from $25 to $150. Pacquiao would have earned $100,000 from the hour-long concert.
"I don't know what to say about what happened. We thought Hawaii would appreciate bringing him in and 25 bucks is pretty cheap and reasonable,” Chang told the paper.
The concert producer added that they had hoped to sell at least 2,500 tickets to break even. However, based on the low ticket sales vis-a-vis the approaching date of the concert, Island Fire Productions has decided to cancel the show.
“We needed to either pull out now or make about $175,000 to break even. I couldn't risk dropping that much for my investors,” Chang said.
The Honolulu Advertiser report said that Pacquiao “was going to sing for an hour with his MP Band and he was going to give away an autographed replica of the IBO light welterweight championship belt he earned with his win over Ricky Hatton last May. More than 20 other musicians, deejays, jugglers, dancers and magicians were also scheduled to take part in the concert.”
A meet-and-greet session with Pacquiao and select ticket holders was also planned.
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