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Summary Ticket sales began at 9 a.m. at the National Taiwan University Sports Center.
Fans scrambled for tickets to a Lady Gaga concert scheduled for May in Taipei Saturday, with the lower-priced tickets selling like hot cakes.Sales began at 9 a.m. at the National Taiwan University Sports Center, where tickets from NT$1,800 (US$61) to NT$2,800 sold out very quickly.The most expensive seats for the May 17 concert were priced at NT$12,800, breaking the NT$12,000 record set by American rock band the Eagles last year.One of the Little Monsters -- as Lady Gaga fans are known -- paid NT$6,000 for a NT$5,800 ticket, saying he admired Gagas talent.The American pop diva, who promised a full-scale gig during her first visit to Taiwan for a mini concert last July, will rock local fans with hits from her album Born This Way, her debut album The Fame and The Fame Monster.The Goth-styled show, titled The Born This Way Ball, will also feature medieval castles and a monster pit in stage designs in what the diva described as more of a musical than a concert.The concert will take place at the Taipei World Trade CenterNangang Exhibition Hall.
