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Denver, Colorado has Red Rocks. Phoenix, Arizona has Celebrity Theater. Why the comparison? Red Rocks is the one of if not the best place in the world to see an outdoor concert, and Celebrity Theater is one of the most interesting and best places to go to an indoor concert. After hearing so much about the coolness of seeing a concert at Celebrity, I finally had a chance to go. It is a Phoenix historic landmark.

A friend of mine mentioned the day of the sold out Mercy Me concert about checking for tickets. I thought, right. But, it was her birthday. So I first called to verify if any tickets by chance were for sale. No luck. They confirmed that not only were the tickets gone, but for the past month you could not have gotten two seats together either. Checked ebay for a late auction. Not a chance. She mentioned Craig’s List. I had never used it before but knew many people that had. And what do you know! There was a guy selling TWO tickets for face value, in the second row from the stage! I called him and made a deal to meet half way. This was just four hours before the concert was set to begin.

Here’s a pic of our seats:

mercy me, Phoenix Az

Built in 1963, Celebrity has a capacity of 2,665 seats and none are more than 75 feet from the stage. The revolving stage! This is very cool. While the group plays, the stage turns, at a top speed of a half rotation per minute. Every so often it will stop and change direction.

Mercy Me, Celebrity Theater

Mercy Me put on a great show at Celebrity. They played their numerous top hits, shared many of the stories behind them, and sang a new one I really liked called Finally Home. One of the best moments of the concert was the band stepping out of character so to speak (in a good way) and playing a Tom Petty tune. Being a Petty fan and having seen him live twice, they were as good as the Heartbreakers!

Go to the next page to check out a Mercy Me video –

This Mercy Me video, So long Self, is a good combination of the music and personality of the group.

I am looking forward to enjoying other concerts at Celebrity. I’ll plan to buy the tickets early next time as I don’t think deals like that are very common at this popular Phoenix venue.