“Michelle Obama is out here selling Beyoncé priced tickets and I was not prepared,” another wrote. Tickets to Michelle Obama’s arena book tour went on presale Thursday for people who signed up early, and it’s looking as though the former first lady is generating Beyoncé-level sales.
And those bemoaning not being able to score a lower-priced seat still have a shot: General public sales begin Friday morning. The documentary is part of a 2018 deal between Netflix and the Higher Ground production company formed by former U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife to produce content for the streaming service. READ MORE: George W. Bush slips Michelle Obama candy during father’s funeral. The former first lady acknowledged the timing is difficult for a film about community, and that social distancing doesn't come naturally to her. Want to discuss? Higher Ground was also behind the acclaimed recently released documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, by James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham. “I love Michelle Obama, I do,” a fan wrote on Twitter. READ MORE: Michelle Obama adds second engagement in Vancouver after first one sells out. Becoming chronicles Obama’s life: from growing up on the lower-income south side of Chicago, to confronting racism in public life to her amazement at becoming the country’s first black first lady. Tickets to the general public go on sale Sat. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6.
“Truly humbled by the response to my upcoming book tour,” she wrote. After carefully counting book tour money, Mrs. Obama can turn her attention toward projects like the $100-million Obama Netflix deal and how … It's what will get us to the other side," she added. Former United States first lady Michelle Obama will be speaking in four Canadian cities next year, as part of her Becoming book tour being extended into 2019. “I don’t want to hear a single word about Michelle Obama’s ticket prices,” one fan wrote.
B.C. On Tuesday, Live Nation and Crown Publishing announced Obama will have 21 book tour events next year, with six of them in Europe and four in Canada. Michelle Robinson Obama, born in 1964, attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
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By comparison, former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s memoir Living History needed a month to sell 1 million copies. Michelle Obama's tour to promote her best-selling 2018 memoir Becoming has been turned into a documentary film for Netflix.. However, Obama is donating 10% of tickets for each date to community groups and charities. Former president George W. Bush’s Decision Points took several weeks to reach 2 million. The tour starts in her hometown of Chicago on November 13. Former US First Lady Michelle Obama during a book tour for her …
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She has been appearing at such arenas as New York City’s Barclays Center and Chicago’s United Center, with guest interviewers including Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon.
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Obama later worked in the Chicago mayor’s office, the University of Chicago, and the University of Chicago Medical Center. ", Audience Relations, CBC P.O. Michelle Obama’s book tour. In this Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, former first lady Michelle Obama signs books during an appearance for her book, “Becoming,” in New York.
"Empathy is our lifeline here. Live Nation, the entertainment company producing the tour, added two dates — a second in Washington and a tour-ending second appearance in Brooklyn — to the 10-city itinerary, apparently in response to brisk sellouts. Tickets to hear Obama and as-yet-unnamed moderators discuss her upcoming memoir “Becoming” ranged from $29.50 for perches in the nosebleeds to $3,000 for front-row seats and a package that includes a “pre-show photo opportunity,” meet-and-greet reception with Obama, a signed book and other perks, including an “exclusive VIP gift item.”, With many fans snapping up cheap seats first, the big-ticket packages were some of the only seats left soon after the presale started. Michelle Obama stepped onto the stage at the SAP Center in San Jose and faced a sold-out crowd of 12,600 people, who came from throughout northern … Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. Get a roundup of the most important and intriguing national stories delivered to your inbox every weekday.
But I am sorely disappointed in how expensive these book tour tickets are.”.
“I’m having so much fun with all of you on my #IAmBecoming tour that I decided to do one final round of events to see folks in some cities we missed!” Obama shared on various social media platforms, alongside a video recapping the tour so far and announcing the new dates. "I'm a hugger," she said. Sales have topped 3 million copies, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. Deborah Speer, an editor for concert-industry trade magazine Pollstar, said those prices seem to be in line with those for high-end musical acts. She also reflects on early struggles in her marriage to Barack Obama as he began his political career and was often away.
Tickets to Michelle Obama’s arena book tour went on presale Thursday for people who signed up early, and it’s looking as though the former first lady is generating Beyoncé-level sales. “I can’t wait to share BECOMING with all of you & hope to see you somewhere along the way!”. "She moves quickly and I had to learn to move with her," Hallgren said.
Get that money, Mrs. Obama.”, And each event could generate millions: For comparison, Speer notes that in September 2017, two Paul McCartney shows at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center with tickets ranging from $35 to $356 grossed almost $2.2 million each. "Those months I spent travelling — meeting and connecting with people in cities across the globe — drove home the idea that what we share in common is deep and real and can't be messed with," Obama said. Michelle Obama's book tour documented for Becoming film, Obamas make their Hollywood movie debut with Netflix project, Michelle Obama's Becoming was #1 bestselling print book in Canada in 2018, Michelle Obama launches weekly read-aloud series for children in isolation, CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices.
“Michelle Obama is kind of a rock star herself.”, Some Twitter users seemed just fine with the prices.
Managed by the concert promoter Live Nation, the series had the scale of a rock tour, with a string of dates at sold-out arenas.
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Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ book tour coming to 4 Canadian cities. During the pandemic, Obama has read children's books to kids stuck at home in an online series titled Mondays with Michelle Obama.
Just handfuls of tickets for former first lady Michelle Obama’s book tour — where packages can sell for as much as $3,000 — are left at some of the stadiums where she’ll be appearing. (That’s before paying for production, security, venue rental, crews, lighting, sound and other fees.). That didn’t sit well with some would-be attendees who complained about getting priced out.
More details can be found on Obama’s website. Michelle Obama served as first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. It’s unusual for an author, though, to sell out arenas.
She writes that they met with a counsellor “a handful of times,” and she came to realize that she was more “in charge” of her happiness than she had realized. Obama and Live Nation said that they planned to donate 10 percent of ticket sales to unspecified “local charities, schools, and community groups” in each city she visits and that fans from those organizations would get free tickets.
The tour in 2019 and 2020 included public events in concert stadiums and large venues across the United States, Canada and Europe, where Obama held conversations with the audience and the likes of actress Sarah Jessica Parker, Gayle King and Stephen Colbert. Obama is embarking on a 10-city book tour to support her memoir.
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All shows start at 8 p.m. Prices range from $30 to $200.