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If you haven't got your tickets there are still some tickets available.

I talked to the producer and there are still plenty tickets for the show. we need to support this show this time around. He said that if this show goes well this year they are thinking about creating a show that will feature both VGM and Anime music.

If you havent bought tickets do it now. We need to get this show sold out so they will come back next year. FANIME come on!

It is so exciting! I have been waiting for this show to come to California since May 26 of last year. I was so bummed that I couldn't go to the Chicago show. I got my tickets for this show in my home state!

PLAY! Concert Kicks Off on Saturday, May 26, 2007 in San Jose, CA

PLAY! and Blizzard Entertainment® to Give Away Free World of Warcraft® Trial DVDs at the California Premiere

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March May 8, 2007- Today, Jason Michael Paul Productions, Inc. has announced that the upcoming PLAY! concerts will kickoff on Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 8PM in San Jose, CA at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. The concert will take place in conjunction with the Fanime Convention www.fanime.com.

PLAY! A Video Game Symphony is a symphony concert world tour, featuring live music performed by full orchestra and choir. Outstanding graphics on large screens above the orchestra accompany the scores, highlighting memorable moments from a catalogue of blockbuster video games.

Audiences will be thrilled by orchestral arrangements of their favorite video game soundtracks, including the score to World of Warcraftâ, Blizzard Entertainmentâ's award-winning massively multiplayer online game.  As an added bonus, attendees to PLAY! Concerts will receive a free trial disc of World of Warcraft on DVD-ROM, which includes 14 days of free game time, while supplies last.

"Thanks to the generosity of Blizzard Entertainment, our concert goers will have a memento by which to remember their special evening at the PLAY! concert," says Jason Michael Paul, producer of PLAY!.

Additional tour dates including ticket information are available at the official PLAY! website at www.play-symphony.com/tickets.php <http://www.play-symphony.com/tickets.php> . So far, upcoming PLAY! concerts have been announced for Stockholm, Singapore, Sydney and Ft. Worth, TX.

About Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft and the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® series, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com <http://www.blizzard.com/> ), a division of Vivendi Games, is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software renowned for creating some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed games. Blizzard’s track record includes ten #1-selling games and multiple Game of the Year awards. The company’s free Internet gaming service, Battle.net®, reigns as the largest in the world, with millions of active users.

As if the FINAL FANTASY merch wasn't enough. Here is more souvenirs to add to the loot. See below:

PLAY! Concert Kicks Off on Saturday, May 26, 2007 in San Jose, CA

PLAY! and Blizzard Entertainment® to Give Away Free World of Warcraft® Trial DVDs at the California Premiere

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March May 8, 2007- Today, Jason Michael Paul Productions, Inc. has announced that the upcoming PLAY! concerts will kickoff on Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 8PM in San Jose, CA at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. The concert will take place in conjunction with the Fanime Convention www.fanime.com.

PLAY! A Video Game Symphony is a symphony concert world tour, featuring live music performed by full orchestra and choir. Outstanding graphics on large screens above the orchestra accompany the scores, highlighting memorable moments from a catalogue of blockbuster video games.

Audiences will be thrilled by orchestral arrangements of their favorite video game soundtracks, including the score to World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment's award-winning massively multiplayer online game.  As an added bonus, attendees to PLAY! Concerts will receive a free trial disc of World of Warcraft on DVD-ROM, which includes 14 days of free game time, while supplies last.

"Thanks to the generosity of Blizzard Entertainment, our concert goers will have a memento by which to remember their special evening at the PLAY! concert," says Jason Michael Paul, producer of PLAY!.

Additional tour dates including ticket information are available at the official PLAY! website at www.play-symphony.com/tickets.php. So far, upcoming PLAY! concerts have been announced for Stockholm, Singapore, Sydney and Ft. Worth, TX.

About Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
Best known for blockbuster hits including World of Warcraft and the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® series, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (www.blizzard.com), a division of Vivendi Games, is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software renowned for creating some of the industry’s most critically acclaimed games. Blizzard’s track record includes ten #1-selling games and multiple Game of the Year awards. The company’s free Internet gaming service, Battle.net®, reigns as the largest in the world, with millions of active users.





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Have you checekd out PLAY!'s website and some of the videos on you tube. This show looks freaking amazing. It is from the same team that did Dear Friends- Music from FINAL FANTASY. I want to encourage everyone to go. last time I went I met Nobuo Uematsu, Hironobu Sakaguchi, and Yoshitake Amano.

I can appreciate everything that the Fanime organizers are doing. On the one hand they have a free ticket for some pretty good groups. On the other they have a world renowned worldwide touring production with PLAY!. The truth is I like both J ROCK and VGM. However, PLAY! may never come around again and I can truly appreciate a full orchestra, choir, grammy award winning conductor. We need to support both or else these types of events cannot survive.

I was thinking that it might be nice if we can have a group to meet up before the concert for dinner? If this is something that people want to do suggest a place. I am thinking to meet uo at the convention center. Does anyone have any restaurant suggestions? Holler. Only 19 more days!

The PLAY! concert starts at 8PM. Does anyone know what time the music fest starts? In a perfect world we can attend both since the PLAY! program I believe usually runs about two hours or so. In any case, I have been waiting for PLAY! to come to the Bay Area since I first saw the banner on the fanime website last year! It is not everyday that you get the opportunity to see a full orchestra, choir, grammy award winning conductor, guest stars, receive limited edition merchandise, world premiere of Lost Odyssey, The Darkness, and yet still more to be announced. I have already spent my money on PLAY!. Oh I cannot wait.

You should get your tickets now before they are gone!

San Jose, USA
San Jose Center for the Performing
When: Saturday, May 26, 2007, 8 pm


Tickets to the PLAY! concert in San Jose, CA will be available to the general public starting Saturday, March 31 at 10 am online at www.ticketmaster.com or at Symphony Silicon Valley, 467 South First St. San Jose, CA 95113 or by calling 408 286-2600.

Please visit our website www.play-symphony.com for the latest updates and do not forget to register on the PLAY! website.

Already announced to attend will be Jeremy Soule composer of Oblivion, Morrowind, Prey, etc.

There will be free Dear Friends- Music from FINAL FANTASY programs and posters to the first 1000 attendees.

World premieres of LOST ODYSSEY and THE DARKNESS will be a part of this concert.

Free trial of World of Warcraft will be given away to every attendee.

There is a discount for FanimeCon attendees. At the ticketmaster website type in "fanime" to receive a discount on tickets.

This type of event can not be successful without your support. Get your tickets now! Dress up as your favorite character. Take a date to the concert! Bring your parents to a video game symphony! Bring the whole family to be entertained. It promises to be spectacular!

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The more people who come the more exciting it will be. I hope that everyone coming to Fanime will join us at this event. We are going to have a costume ball. 8)

I was just curious if anyone knows what the program will be for this show? Is it posted anywhere? Please let me know. I hope they perform One Winged Angel.

This is awesome!

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 21, 2007 - Jason Michael Paul Productions, Inc. announced today that the first 1,000 attendees to the PLAY! concert in San Jose will receive free exclusive Dear Friends - Music from FINAL FANTASY programs and posters. PLAY! San Jose will be presented in association with Fanime at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 8 pm.

The two-hour concert performed by the Symphony Silicon Valley and Chorale will be conducted by Grammy Award-winning artist Arnie Roth. "It's no secret among game lovers and connoisseurs of orchestral music that some of today's most thrilling scores are coming out of the video game genre," says Roth. "This spectacular concert series speaks to the growing popularity and artistic sophistication of this form of entertainment and will attract people of all generations to some of the world's greatest concert halls."

This presentation is the second successful collaboration between the Symphony and Jason Michael Paul Productions, having presented a sold-out video game music concert in 2005.

Tickets to the PLAY! concert in San Jose, CA are available to the general public online at www.ticketmaster.com or at Symphony Silicon Valley, 467 South First St. San Jose, CA 95113 or by calling 408 286-2600.

Ticket prices for this concert range from $36 - $72 a seat with a select group of the best seats selling for $100 including a PLAY! Package of gifts.

Article URL is http://www.play-symphony.com/news.php?full=70.
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The $100.00 tickets are gone? :cry: I shouldn't have waited.

For those interested:

Jeremy Soule announcement

http://www.play-symphony.com

It is official Jeremy Soule the composer of Oblivion will attend the show. Also, many of us are planning on coming in costume. We are going to have a costume party there. Spread the word and encourage everyone to get their tickets now before they are gone. If you know of anyone interested make sure they get there tickets and spread the word. I have been waiting for this event to come since Dear Friends in SF. Also, the ticketmaster system has a discount for Fanime folks. Just enter "fanime" which is all the more reason to buy now!

The password is "fanime".

According to the PLAY! website www.play-symphony.com Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu creators of FINAL FANTASY will premiere their newest game Lost Odyssey as part of the show. They will also preform the music and showcase on the big screen never before seen footage of the game "The Darkness". Both of these games have not even been released anywhere. Pretty cool!

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If you want to check out the information on the show visit www.play-symphony.com. There is ticket information there. For some reason ticketmaster hasn't built in the discount for registered fanime attendees. The team behind this production is the same one behind Dear Friends- Music from FINAL FANTASY, and More Friends- Music from FINAL FANTASY. Tickets are on sale but they will probably sell out so get them while you can.

I heard that there will be some famous people attending as well as a lot of free giveaways.

I am excited! They have been everywhere except our beloved Cali. :lol: