Tickets on sale May 3rd; $1 from every ticket donated to the Melanoma Research Alliance
American Idol^® Live! returns this summer for another hit tour to showcase the season’s talented top Finalists and stops in Uncasville, CT for a Saturday, August 17th performance in Mohegan Sun Arena at 7:30pm.
Tickets are $71.00 & $61.00 and go on sale Friday, May 3rd through Ticketmaster at 10:00am.  Ticketmaster customers may log on to ticketmaster.com; call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge By Phone number 1.800.745.3000; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet.  Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Saturday, May 4th subject to availability. More details are also available at mohegansun.com/entertainment.
American Idol^® Live! gives fans the unique opportunity to be up close and personal with Season 12 Idol Finalists Amber Holcomb, Angie Miller, Burnell Taylor, Candice Glover, Curtis Finch Jr, Devin Velez, Janelle Arthur, Kree Harrison, Lazaro Arbos, and Paul Jolley. Plus, Aubrey Cleland joins the Tour as the 11th Idol Finalist thanks to the AT&T American Idol^® Live! Tour Fan Save, voted on by the Idol fans.
Finalists will perform favorite moments from the season as well as never before seen performances. The American Idol^® season Finale will air on FOX on May 16th but this season’s fan-favorites will continue on with the 2013 Live! Tour. Claire’s, one of the world’s leading specialty retailers of fashionable accessories and jewelry, joins as an associate sponsor of the tour.
This year, American Idol^® Live! partnered with The Melanoma Research Alliance (www.curemelanoma.org). For every ticket purchased for the Tour, American Idol^® Live! will donate $1 to The Melanoma Research Alliance to help cure melanoma. Melanoma Research Alliance helps find treatments and a cure for melanoma, a skin disease whose incidence is among the fastest growing cancers.
Mohegan Sun Arena is ranked 3rd in the U.S. and 5th in the world by Billboard Magazine and was the 2008 and 2010 recipient of a Country Music Award for “Casino of The Year.”  Venues Today also ranked Mohegan Sun Arena #4 in 2011 and ranked in the top six of “Top Stops of The Decade” in 2012. For more information on concerts and other great events at Mohegan Sun, visit mohegansun.com. For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711, ext. 27163.