CEBU, Philippines – Just hours after the “Kalyeserye” portion of “Eat Bulaga” announced that the noontime show will hold a special event called “AlDub-Sa Tamang Panahon” this Saturday, October 24 at the Philippine Arena, online sales of tickets are on pace to be sold out.
“As of 8:30 p.m, Ticketworld sold 30,000+ tickets and counting! Website experiencing high traffic. Please be patient mga Dabarkads!!! Expecting before Monday the 19th of October tickets will be sold out! We are currently experiencing high volume of traffic on our site,” went the latest post of The Philippine Arena.
At the rate of the brisk sales of tickets, affordably priced at P1,500, P600, P300 and P150, attendance could max out the 55,000 seating capacity of the humongous Bocaue, Bulacan-based multi-purpose indoor arena owned and operated by the Iglesia ni Cristo.
So far, the over 30,000 tickets sold has duplicated and possibly exceeded the over 30,000 attendance of Katy Perry’s Prismatic World Tour concert at the same venue last May.
Early this month, the red carpet premiere of “Felix Manalo,” the biopic of the INC’s first executive minister registered an attendance of 43,624 which was certified by Guinness World Records officials as both the Largest Attendance for a Film Screening and the Largest Attendance for a Film Premiere.
The Philippine Arena event is billed as one of the biggest of “Eat Bulaga” in its 36th year history. In terms of venue and attendance, “AlDub-Sa Tamang Panahon” may well be its biggest extravaganza ever.
By comparison, rival noontime show, “It’s Showtime” held its 6th anniversary kick-off special at last September 27 at the 16,500-seater Smart Araneta Coliseum. Featuring ABS-CBN’s most popular love teams, the show drew a sellout crowd but still lost out in the social media war to “Eat Bulaga.”
“Eat Bulaga” continues to dominate the ratings in its daily noontime slot as the phenomenal AlDub love team of Alden Richards and Maine Mendoza a.k.a. Yaya Dub, shows no sign of slowing down since it captured viewers’ imagination last July. On Twitter, an #AlDub related hashtag quickly becomes the number one trending topic every day. — InterAksyon.com