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Goodnight Starlight?
Keep up the good work Larry— October 3, 2013 4:52 a.m.
Goodnight Starlight?
Dear Chris, I just read your post on the show you did at the Theatre: “I tried to rescue the Starlight Bowl because I saw the amazing potential a venue like that had,” says Chris Leyva after learning that managers of the 4000-plus seat amphitheater had recently filed bankruptcy. “I wanted to see it become like a mini Hollywood Bowl, and why not? The Starlight has alcohol permits and a huge parking lot.” Leyva is a San Diego–based musician. He also buys local talent for both House of Blues and 4th&B and he tried to do the same at the Starlight. “I produced a mini festival [Staring at the Sun V, in March of 2007], but [Starlight management] got greedy and turned people away at the door.” Leyva had flooded high schools throughout San Diego County with free tickets but says Starlight refused to honor them on the day of the show. “She [then-manager Susan Suffecool] started charging them all.” Concertgoers who refused to pay were turned away, he says. Susan Suffecool DID NOT charge for people to go into the venue. So your facts are incorrect and slamming to someone who WAS trying to build a new Theatre experience with local talent. What she DID say was if this show went well we could TALK about the possibility of charging a nominal fee if there was to be a second show. Starlight took the hit on the sound that was around $2000.00 so we indeed invested in your show and had hopes of building this to be a new and improved venue. We also let you sell your merch out in front and took no "kick back" of said money you earned. You did a lot of leg work on this and it was appreciated, but in the end the audience turned out to be about 100 +/- for the entire day. Please make sure in the future that you have your facts correct before you: SLANDER (slan·der [slan-der] Show IPA noun 1. defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander. 2. a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report: a slander against his good name.) A person that worked hard to save a San Diego Treasure.— October 3, 2013 4:50 a.m.