Ticket sales are up 30% compared with the same time last year for the South Australian event, the second largest fringe festival in the world.
With one month remaining until the festival begins, Adelaide Fringe Director and Chief Executive, Heather Croall said the spike in ticket sales to tourists and locals was expected to level out to about 8 to 10% as opening night neared.
She said the number of visitors to South Australia for the month-long Fringe had increased by 50% in recent years to more than 20,000 last year.
Croall said the 2019 Adelaide Fringe would be an “entertainment extravaganza” with significant growth in the genres of circus and physical theatre (up 44.4%), interactive (up 44%) and theatre (up 21.8%).
She concluded “each year we see more and more artists getting behind our fabulous festival and putting on an increasingly diverse range of shows so that Fringe-goers have an exciting assortment of events to choose from, including wonderfully unique experiences like a music performance on a hot air balloon and a play set in a caravan park.”
The 2019 Adelaide Fringe kicks off on Friday 15th February with a street party and the stunning Tindo Utpurndee Sunset Ceremony by the banks of the River Torrens.
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