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“We did one show the first season, then we did five (in 2014) and then we did nine (in 2015),” he said. The exclusive booking agreement expands on a relationship first formed four years ago with a Mumford and Sons concert. I like to joke that it has the feeling of a Caddyshack gone berserk.”

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“You have an old-school, legendary tennis club that’s running at full speed while The Who is sound checking. “People are playing tennis on the grass courts behind the stadium all the way up until the show starts,” Luba says. Open tournament left for Flushing Meadows in 1977, and the facility’s 38 courts and stadium are now operated by the 125-year-old West Side Tennis Club, one of New York’s oldest. Forest Hills Stadium was used as a filming location for Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train and Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums and has hosted concerts by the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, who famously landed a helicopter on the court in 1964. “We went back to the original architectural drawings of the stadium,” Luba tells Billboard, embracing the 10 decades of history at the stadium where Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson became the first African-Americans to win the U.S. Madison House also reconfigured the entry concourse and gave it a more open, functional feel and expanded the number of VIP spaces from four to nine. “We’re really lucky someone hasn’t taken a leak in there,” jokes Madison House’s Mike Luba, who spearheaded the renovations, which include reconfiguring the floor to create “one of the largest GA seating sections in North America,” he tells Billboard. AEG will lead a renovation and redesign of the stadium’s concourse, seating and concessions and create new “speakeasy” VIP areas with hidden entry points, including a suite that can only be accessed via secret passage through a fake port-a-potty.

Open Tennis Championship. AEG-owned Madison House Presents will exclusively present 15 to 20 shows a year at the 13,000-capacity stadium still owned and operated by the West Side Tennis Club. AEG has inked a long-term booking and concert promotion agreement for the historic Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, the former home of the first U.S.