Title: ABC Television's "The Disco Ball...A 30-Year Celebration" to Benefit AIDS Project Los Angeles; Tickets on Sale Now!
Source: Business Wire
Date: October 3, 2002
Topic: News
All-Star Event to Feature Performances by The Village People, Whoopi Goldberg, KC & The Sunshine Band, Gloria Gaynor, Aaron Carter, Maya, Thelma Houston and Anastasia
Dust off the platform shoes and send the leisure suit to the cleaners, because ABC will host "The Disco Ball...A 30-Year Celebration," an all-star party celebrating that phenomenon called disco. The Disco Ball is Sunday, October 13, 6 to 9 p.m. at the Shrine Auditorium. Tickets range from $100 to $25 and are available at ticketmaster.com or by calling 213/480-3232. $100 tickets include floor seats and open bar. Proceeds from the ticket sales will benefit AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA). For more information, go to disco-ball.org The venerable venue will be transformed into Club Shrine, the hottest nightspot in the country, featuring two discos built on platforms over two-thirds of the auditorium's downstairs seats, five performance areas, go-go stages and balcony seating for an additional 3,500 people. And since the "Disco Ball" is NOT an awards show, the music absolutely NEVER STOPS.
Legendary performers of the disco era, as well as some of today's biggest stars, will jump onto multiple stages and perform the classics that defined the disco era, including "Disco Inferno," "I Will Survive," "YMCA," "It's Raining Men," "Stayin' Alive," "Turn the Beat Around," "Hot Stuff," "Macho Man," "You Should Be Dancing," "Get Down Tonight" and "Last Dance." The Village People, KC & The Sunshine Band, Gloria Gaynor, The Pointer Sisters, Irene Cara, Thelma Houston, The Trammps, The Spinners, Nicki French, Anastasia, Maya, Whoopi Goldberg, Westlife, and Aaron Carter are among the artists set to perform.
"The Disco Ball...A 30-Year Celebration" is written by Bruce Vilance and produced by Jeff Margolis Productions.
AIDS Project Los Angeles, which this year marks 20 years of prevention, advocacy and service, provides direct services to more than 10,000 men, women and children living with HIV and AIDS in Los Angeles County. Services include prevention education, food banks, professional dental care, housing assistance, mental health counseling, women's services and case management. APLA is a leader in the provision of bilingual HIV treatment information, in print and on the Internet, and advocates for effective AIDS-related policies and legislation on the local, state and federal level.
For more information, please visit www.apla.org / CONTACT: APLA Nicole Russo-Okamoto, 213/201-1363 or ABC Jeff Fordis, 818/460-6676 / URL: http://www.businesswire.com
