CaptionLos Angeles city officials are preparing for massive crowds downtown during Tuesday's public memorial for Michael Jackson at Staples Center.
Staples Center boss Tim Leiweke says 17,500 tickets free tickets will be provided. There also will be a free worldwide video feed.
Leiweke says 11,000 tickets will be for seats inside Staples Center and 6,500 will be for seats in the adjacent Nokia Theatre, where fans will watch a simulcast.
People who want tickets must register on the Web at Staplescenter.com. After 6 p.m. Saturday, 8,750 names will be randomly selected to receive two tickets each. Notifications will go out on Sunday. Those selected will obtain their tickets via Ticketmaster on Monday.
No details of the memorial service itself have been released.
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- Jennifer Thompson on 07/03 03:21 PM
Anyone else locally planning to attend? I'll be going if I "win" tickets to attend. It'd be last minute, so I hope that I'll be able to make reasonably priced airplane travel reservations. I just think it's ridiculous to have to wait to see if I will "win" a ticket to attend a PUBLIC memorial, then have to make a mad dash all the way across the country, hopefully in time.
