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Dateline: 18th July, 2003 Record Sales for EIF Sales Exceed Last Year's Total with Two Weeks of the Festival Still to Run Tickets sales for the Edinburgh International Festival are booming, with over £2.35 million already taken at the box office - more than the entire sales for last year's event. Sales are buoyant across the board, with customers flocking to events as diverse as Chekhov's The Seagull, Wagner's Ring Cycle, Indian classical music, chamber music recitals and Korean storytelling. The Royal Bank Turn Up and Try It £5 tickets, a new initiative this year, are also proving very popular, ensuring access to otherwise sold out shows, and enabling hundreds of people to see world class performers without the need to pre-plan. Festival Director Brian McMaster said today: 'We are delighted at the response to this year's programmes. Reviews have been excellent, but, more importantly, our audiences are clearly having a very good time, and are trying out a wide range of familiar and less familiar events.' Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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