Two girls. One ticket.
Oh, the dilemma.
Victoria Rodriguez, 15, stood in line for four hours back in May for wristbands to purchase tickets, but she -- and thousands of other fans-- came up short. Rodriguez, however, managed to find one ticket through a friend a few weeks after the quick sellout.
Just one.
Good news for her, surely, but a friend of hers, Lili Lambert, 14, traveled here from Germany just to see her-- and the Hansons.
"The girls are at the Hansons' house today in southwest Tulsa, hoping to see them and find another ticket," said Rodriguez's mother, Nila Estradda. "We found one from a scalper for $175, but that's just too much."
For the time being, Estradda said, Victoria gets the ticket for Wednesday's show.
Rodriguez met Lambert last year through the Internet. They chatted online nearly ever day, Estradda said, until Lambert and her parents came to visit in mid-June. The trip was to unite the new friends and let them explore the hometown of Hanson in hopes of finding...something.
"They are fanatics, both," Estradda said.
Hanson-- the Tulsa trio that scored a No.1 hit last year with "MMMBop" from the group's debut album, "Middle of Nowhere"-- is scheduled to play a concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Mabee Center, 8100 Lewis Ave. The show sold out in less then an hour when tickets went on sale May 30.
While Hanson may be hot, so are their fans.
One of them was on Monday, anyway. That morning, disc jockeys at radio station KRAV, 96.5 FM, asked listeners, "What's the craziest thing you would do for passes to meet Hanson?" Lonnie Dugan called in with his bright idea-- to ride around town on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle wearing a clown suit-- and the station took him up on it.
Dugan is a fan of Harleys, not Hanson, but his daughter-- like most young girls in the hit trio's home town-- is more interested in "Three Car Garage," Hanson's latest album. Dugan's idea won his daughter and her cousin teo hard-to-find tickets to the show plus backstage passes.
"They're definitely happy campers," Dugan said.
He found out, though, just how hot a ticket this concert is. Dugan donned the clown suit and set off among rush hour traffic -- shortly after the air temperature reached its high mark of 99 degrees Monday afternoon.
"I ride and old Harley, and it runs pretty hot. The heat ourside didn't make it any better," He said.
At least 8,000 fans-- plus hundreds of others just hoping for a glimpse of the blond boys-- are expected to descend on the Mabee Center for the show.
Another Tulsa band, Admiral Twin, has been on the tour with Hanson for nearly a month. This power pop band-- which includes drummer Jarrod Gollihare, author of "Hanson: The Official Biography" -- will open the Tulsa show.
