KISS To Play New Year's Eve Show In Vancouver

KISS has signed on to play a New Year's Eve gig at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, according to local radio station CFOX, which is presenting the show. CFOX reports that there will be opening acts, though it hasn't named them.

The stadium will reportedly be set up in a ''concert bowl'' configuration that utilizes about half of the stadium's available capacity, with the bands performing in the center. Due to this set-up, only 18,000 tickets will be sold.

Tickets are scheduled to go onsale Nov. 13. The first 1,993 tickets will sell for $79.93, according to CFOX. Others will sell for $99.93 and $129.93.

Gene Simmons of KISS told CFOX that the band will record the Vancouver performance for a new live album to be titled ''KISS Alive 4.''

KISS hasn't confirmed any further touring plans, though band members have often mentioned that another stint on the road is in the works for the spring of 2000. The band's most recent tour was the abbreviated ''Psycho Circus'' outing, which took place in late 1998 and early 1999 and covered major North American markets.

The boxoffice results from the ''Psycho Circus'' tour showed only a small drop-off from the band's blockbuster 1996-97 tour, when the band's four original members reunited and performed in full make-up after a lengthy hiatus. The total North American ticket grosses from that tour were estimated at more than $50 million, making it one of the top tours of the period.

Kiss frontman Paul Stanley recently concluded a 15-week run as the Phantom menace in a production of ''The Phantom of the Opera'' at Toronto's Pantages Theatre.