Elton John Coming Back To Missoula

By Courtney Lowery, 10-31-07

Elton John, who played the Adams Center Sept. 28, is coming back to Missoula for an encore performance April 11. The Missoula stop will be the only Montana show on this part of John’s “Rocket Man: Number Ones” tour. This fall, he also came to Bozeman after his Missoula show.

Tickets will go on sale Monday, Nov. 5 at the Adams Center box office and GrizTix vendors: Southgate Mall, Worden’s Market and The Source in the University Center. University officials made it clear in an announcement sent Tuesday that the tickets will be on sale at these locations “as supplies last.” Each outlet will give numbers to ticket purchasers by 8 a.m. Nov. 5 and then choose one of those numbers randomly at 11 a.m. The person with the number called will be first in line to purchase tickets. “Receiving a number does not guarantee the ability to purchase tickets,” the announcement reads.

The group of tickets sold at the outlets will be separate from the tickets sold online at www.griztix.com or over the phone at 888-MONTANA. This fall, one of the big problems was people standing in line were going after the same pool of tickets as the thousands of people who were hopping online at the same time and purchasing tickets. All the tickets sold out in about an hour online.

“Due to overwhelming demand for tickets for his September concert, new ticket procedures have been added to improve ticket distribution,” said Jim Foley, Executive Vice President of The University of Montana in the announcement.