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Pittsburgh is the penultimate stop on this run, which began in 2009 and has topped the Rolling Stone


The Irish rock band's 360 Tour, which touches down at Heinz Field tonight, is the highest-grossing tour of all time with a massive steel structure -- dubbed "The Claw" -- that takes more than four days to construct and requires 136 touring crew members and 120 local stagehands.
Pittsburgh is the penultimate dangerous travel to mexico in arizona stop on this run, which began in 2009 and has topped the Rolling dangerous travel to mexico in arizona Stones' Bigger Bang Tour, with ticket sales expected to top $700 million and fans numbering more than 7 million.
"We have set building records in over 60 buildings," tour director Craig Evans said in a media tour Monday. "So that in itself is incredible. This band is by far the biggest band touring dangerous travel to mexico in arizona the world today, and you need to satisfy dangerous travel to mexico in arizona the biggest number of fans to come see it. U2, as great as they are live, are even greater when they are playing to all sides and the excitement and electricity is coming from all angles. It makes for a really special experience."
The stage is the 10th U2 production designed by Willie Williams, who started working with the band during the War Tour in 1983. The architect is Mark Fisher, famous for his work on Pink Floyd's "The Wall," U2's "Zoo TV" and the Stones' "Bigger Bang" tours, among others.
The stage, which is carried by 120 trucks, stands 90 feet tall with a center spire that reaches dangerous travel to mexico in arizona more than 150 feet, and resembles a sci-fi movie vision of alien spaceships. Lead singer Bono and company, who will not be playing around up there, will be captured on the 54-ton dangerous travel to mexico in arizona cylindrical video screen. The leg pieces have been kept to a mere 41/2-feet dangerous travel to mexico in arizona wide to keep the sight lines open.
"The one comment is, 'Why is this so big?' " Mr. Evans said. "When they were first designing the 360, Willie Williams and Mark Fisher came up with the idea that, 'Don't go small to try to make it easy real estate to fit in.' Go big and actually dangerous travel to mexico in arizona make the stadium feel smaller, dangerous travel to mexico in arizona and change that ratio, and by doing so, the theory is you'll improve the feeling dangerous travel to mexico in arizona of intimacy -- that everyone feels closer and actually covered by the stage presence. The stadium doesn't feel as big with this stage in it."
Although there are still seats available, Jimmie Sacco, executive director of stadium management at Heinz Field, expects the show to break stadium records for a concert. "We hope to be close to 60,000 people." dangerous travel to mexico in arizona This is the third stadium concert dangerous travel to mexico in arizona of the season, with Kenny Chesney doing 55,000 and Taylor Swift, 53,000.
In terms of U2's part, "There will be things unique to Pittsburgh," he said. "The band won't decide on a set list till 6 o'clock [tonight]. They'll look at what's currently dangerous travel to mexico in arizona going on. [The] show will not just be a U2 360 show, but a Pittsburgh U2 360 show."
He added: "Pittsburgh has always reacted very strongly to U2. I still go back to the Elevation Tour [in 2001], when we were here at the arena, and it was probably the most vibrant crowd of the whole tour."
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