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'Immortal' by the numbers

By Jon Bream

March 24, 2012 at 11:54PM

“Immortal” has become the biggest tour in the music business, grossing more than $1 million a night. (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

$60 million: cost to assemble production

38: trucks to transport the show

44: songs

252: costumes

5' 11": height of the "glove"

9: choreographers (10 if you count the acrobatic choreographer)

5: former Michael Jackson band members playing on the tour (drummer Jonathan "Sugarfoot" Moffett, bassist Don Boyette, guitarist Jon Clark, singer Fred White and keyboardist/musical director Greg Phillinganes)

15: U.S. cities on the tour

10: Canadian cities on the tour

10/2/2011: Tour opened in Montreal

2013: Permanent show opens in Las Vegas

about the writer

Jon Bream

Music Reporter and Critic

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.