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Monday By the Numbers: Diana Ross’s distance from the audience, and a full house at Ham Hall

2003-2006 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand

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Diana Ross performs during the 2004 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Updated Monday, March 9, 2015 | 4:39 p.m.

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This week, Monday By the Numbers welcomes Diana Ross to her string of shows at the Venetian and touches on the original performing arts center in Las Vegas, which is located on the UNLV campus.

Read on, stat geeks:

16,335: Total number of tickets being sold for Ross’s nine-show engagement at the Venetian Theater from April 1-18.

100 million: Number of records sold worldwide by Ross with The Supremes and as a solo artist.

48: Number of inches from the front row to the edge of the stage for Ross’ shows at Venetian.

Five: Number of consecutive decades Ross has issued a hit single.

Two: Number of stars honoring Ross on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (one for her and one for The Supremes).

450,000: Number of fans who attended Ross’s concert in Central Park in July 1983.

71: The age Ross turns on March 26 (oh, yes).

Three: Years Ross dated Gene Simmons of KISS (1980-1983).

1,832: Tickets sold for Saturday night’s performance of 2 Cellos at UNLV’s Artemus Ham Hall.

1,832: Seating capacity at Ham Hall.

2: Number of years bow-tied piano practitioner Kenny Davidsen has celebrated his all-star shows at T Spot at the Tuscany, the second anniversary of which is Wednesday at 8 p.m.

32: Number of singers scheduled to take the stage for Davidsen’s anniversary show.

$0: Cover charge for Davidsen’s anniversary show.

360: Seating capacity at Ron DeCar’s Event Center, where on Friday you can catch Jassen Allen and Alexandria Morgan’s show, “With Love,” a celebration of Luther Vandross and Whitney Houston (tickets $30, $40 VIP, buffet dinner included). Doors are 5:30 p.m.; show at 7 p.m. (call (702) 384-0771 or go to RonDeCarsEventCenter.com).

88: Age, in years, of venerable comic Sammy Shore, who performed a short set at Sunday’s Joe Williams Scholarship Concert at UNLV.

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