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Fri April 4, 2008

Frontier City launches first suspended roller coaster

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Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett; Frontier City General Manager Stephen Ball; Ernie Mashburn, director of maintenance; JoAnn Keirsey, marketing; and Andrea Pennock, marketing, break ground Thursday on the Steel Lasso at Frontier City. by DAVID MCDANIEL, THE OKLahoman
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Acrobatic shows three times daily

•Frontier City theme park General Manager Stephen Ball announced at a Thursday news conference the debut of Circo Magnifico, an acrobatics performance similar to Cirque du Soleil. Circo Magnifico will perform three shows daily in the park's Fort Frontier facility.

Summer concert series

•Frontier City also will host an expanded concert series, including performances by "High School Musical” star Corbin Bleu, former "American Idol” contestant Kellie Pickler, 1980s pop star and "General Hospital” regular Rick Springfield, mellow rock stalwarts America, and disco kings KC and the Sunshine Band.

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By George Lang
Assistant Entertainment Editor
For its 50th anniversary, Frontier City is taking Oklahoma City for a ride — by building the state's first suspended roller coaster.



Steel Lasso will be a 965-foot suspension coaster with a 49-foot lift hill.

The coaster "train,” which will hang from the track and allow riders to dangle their legs, will hold 16 passengers and travel 30 miles per hour.

"It's being custom-made for our park and our guests, which is a really exciting thing,” said Stephen Ball, Frontier City general manager.

"This is The first ride — especially a ride of this magnitude and size — that is actually being built and designed for Frontier City.”

Ball said the foundation will be laid next week, and he estimated it will take five weeks to build the coaster.

Frontier City marketing manager Andrea Pennock said the ride will debut "as early in the summer as possible.”

While Frontier City and its parent company, PARC Management LLC, would not release an exact amount for an ongoing capital improvement project at the park, Ball characterized the investment as "multimillion dollar.”

The concert calendar:

April 12: Thousand Foot Krutch and Wavorly.

May 31: KC and the Sunshine Band.

June 7: Jason Boland & the Stragglers, No Justice, Micky & the Motorcars.

June 14: Rick Springfield.

June 28: Aly & AJ.

July 5: Creedence Clearwater Revisited.

July 12: America.

July 26: Billy Currington.

Aug. 9: Sanctus Real.

Aug. 16: Clay Walker.

Aug. 30: Kellie Pickler.

Aug. 31: Corbin Bleu.

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