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Gray Areas: Disney on Ice, monster trucks return

Entertainment Editor Andy Gray

Assorted ramblings from the world of entertainment:

• Tickets go on sale this week for a couple of returning events at the Covelli Centre.

“Into the Magic” is the title of the Disney on Ice production coming to the Youngstown arena in December.

The show features a mix of Disney favorites and characters from some of its more recent animated offerings. The ice will represent the ocean when Moana goes on a quest to save her island with demigod Maui, and Miguel from “Coco” will take the audience into the Land of the Dead.

Other characters include Belle from “Beauty and the Beast,” Anna and Elsa from “Frozen,” Rapunzel and Flynn from “Tangled” and the title character of “Cinderella.”

Performances are scheduled at 7 p.m. Dec. 8 and 9, 11 a.m. and 3 and 7 p.m. Dec. 10 and 1 and 5 p.m. Dec. 11. Tickets range from $22 to $67 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Southwoods Health box office and through Ticketmaster.

An online-only presale runs from 10 a.m. today through 11:59 p.m. Monday with the password: DVLP22.

Also returning to the venue is the Toughest Monster Truck Tour.

New this season will be Dozer, a bulldozer-themed monster truck making its first appearance in Youngstown. It will be joined by Dirt Crew (a dump truck-themed monster truck), Tailgator, Buckshot and other extreme vehicles.

Shows are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3, 2023, and 6 p.m. Feb. 4, 2023, with the pit party starting two hours before.

Tickets are $33 gold circle, $28 for adult reserved and $17 for children reserved on Feb. 3 and $38 gold circle, $33 adult reserved and $17 reserved children for Feb. 4 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at the Southwoods Health box office and through Ticketmaster.

From Friday through Oct. 9, all adult tickets will be discounted $5, and all tickets will include a pit pass (a $10 value).

• Comedian Bert Kreischer, who will perform Oct. 6 at the Covelli Centre, has several standup comedy specials available on Netflix. He does two podcasts, “Open Tabs” and “Something’s Burning,” and his wife hosts a third (“Wife of the Party”).

Soon Kreischer will be able to actor to his resume.

Kreischer stars in the film “The Machine,” inspired by his signature comedy routine about robbing a train with the Russian mafia while on a college trip to Russia.

The movie takes place 20 years after that event, when Kreischer and his father (played by Jedi master Mark Hamill) are kidnapped by the mob as retribution.

The movie finished filming in Serbia last year, but its release is being delayed for an unusual reason — Russia’s war in the Ukraine.

In a radio interview last spring, Kreischer said, “I think we’re going to wait until this whole Russian thing calms down. I mean, Putin’s killing my release date.”

A comedy about Russians might not be the easiest sell right now, even for one of the most popular comedians in the U.S.

Kreischer has plenty to keep himself busy until the movie comes out, including his current Berty Boy Relapse Tour. The Youngstown date is about 600 tickets shy of being a sellout. Tickets for the 7 p.m. show range from $39.75 to $99.75.

Andy Gray is the entertainment editor of Ticket. Write to him at agray@tribtoday.com

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