These costs, of course, are passed on to ticket buyers.
Ticket buyers don't want to hear that there's a financial crisis, and they'll get less than they expected.
This season, the figure rose to 15,000 new ticket buyers.
"In 1985, just 14.2 percent of the ticket buyers were over 40."
That means more than a little wait for regular ticket buyers.
For many ticket buyers, however, the problem was much more immediate.
The ticket buyer must be a high school junior or senior.
Stars often play for limited runs, and when a big name goes, sometimes so do the ticket buyers.
And what do the ticket buyers think of this advertising?
As a result, the number of ticket buyers increased many fold.