Judge to rule on reservation dispute at Hershey stadium
CARLISLE - A Cumberland County judge is expected to decide today whether a drum and bugle corps competition or the pop group Destiny’s Child has dibs on an Aug. 7 date in Hersheypark Stadium.
Judge Edward E. Guido finished hearing testimony yesterday on a plea from Carlisle-based Five Star Brass Productions Inc., which is seeking an injunction securing that date for its Hershey Spectacular.
Five Star is suing Hershey Entertainment &Resorts Co., claiming the midstate’s largest entertainment firm breached an oral agreement that reserved the stadium for its competition on Aug. 7.
Hershey officials are claiming there was no such commitment because Five Star didn’t have a written contract for its event, which has been held in the stadium for 20 years.
The deal with Destiny’s Child was struck in mid-May, they said.
Larry Hershman, Five Star chairman, said he received an oral commitment for the Aug. 7 date three months earlier.
Hershman has said his firm could be ruined if it can’t have that date.
More than 1,000 tickets have been sold, he said, and top-ranked units have committed to participate.
Many of those units are affiliated with Drum Corps International, whose president, Dan Acheson, testified by phone yesterday.
Acheson said the performers probably wouldn’t attend if the program, scheduled for the evening, was moved to the morning of Aug. 7.
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DEVELOPMENTS
- A judge will decide today on two disputed events, both set for Aug. 7 at Hersheypark Stadium.
- Five Star Brass Productions and pop group Destiny’s Child say they have a deal with the stadium.
- Hersheypark Stadium claims the drum and bugle corps never sent them a written contract.
