On Friday, Oct. 21, the UGBC will be hosting Plexapalooza, a fall Plex Show featuring popular mash-up artists Super Mash Bros., with 5&A Dime and Boston College's own ILO Productions.
Tickets for the event will go on sale online at the Robsham Box Office website at 8 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 17. As the capacity at the Plex is 1,300, tickets will be sold on a first come, first served basis for $20, and students will be allowed to purchase two tickets per BC ID.
"Students can expect the same level of security that they experienced at Girl Talk and The Cataracs," said Mike Zarrilli, executive director of campus entertainment for UGBC and CSOM '12. "While the situation surrounding concerts certainly makes things more tenuous on our end, there should be no impact felt by students who attend this event."
Despite the moratorium placed on large-scale concerts in Conte Forum, UGBC has been given the go-ahead by the administration for this event due to historically low numbers of alcohol-related transports from the Plex. "We're allowed to have a Plex Show despite the moratorium placed on concerts for two reasons," Zarrilli said. "First, Plex Shows in the past have not filled up emergency rooms with alcohol-related transports, and second, in our view, Plex Shows are dances, not concerts. The moratorium was placed on concerts. Events like Homecoming and Plexapalooza should not be affected."
UGBC is not planning any pre-show festivities, but Zarrilli said, "We're hoping that most of our students will be at Conte to support the hockey team against UMass prior to the concert."
Zarrilli said that, according to administrators with the Student Programs Office, "If there are an unusually high number of transports at the Plex Show, it could significantly set us back in getting the concert moratorium lifted. We hope that students will take this into consideration and act responsibly both before and at the event."
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