Northern Jubilee Is Nation's Busiest Theatre
Edmonton's Jube sold more tickets last year than any other theatre in the country, eclipsing Calgary and Toronto BY EMIL TIEDEMANN I T seems that every other week Edmontonians have something else to brag about, from recently being named North America's " Most Sociable City " to being frontrunner for the EXPO 2017 bid , and from accommodating the headquarters of Canada's "#1 company to work for" ( PCL ) to the opening of the world-class Art Gallery of Alberta . Hell, even the Oilers have finally started to win some games! And now, the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium has just been bestowed as Canada's busiest theatre, with 146,555 tickets sold in 2009 alone, according to concert industry publication Pollstar . Those numbers place the 2,515-seat venue ahead of Calgary's 2,515-seat Jubilee theatre (138,515 tickets) and even Toronto's 2,752-seat Massey Hall (93,742). But those figures are only based on touring shows (such as musicals and ...