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SHOW TIME

By Helene Elliott

Box-office windows: 17.

* Theatrical/TV lights: 460.

* Background music speakers: 675.

* Photographic strobe lights: 48.

* Watts of audio amplification: 125,000.

* Fog machines: 2.

* Square feet of marshaling area for loading and unloading show equipment: 15,000.

* Vegas odds of Courteney Cox being pulled up onstage at Bruce Springsteen concert: 100 to 1.

* Concert rigging capacity: 150,000 pounds.

* Underground parking spaces for TV trucks: 6.

* Walk-in refrigerators in catering kitchens: 6.

* Dressing rooms for performers and officials: 7.

* Number of those for female NBA officials: 1.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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