Artown can be trivial

$5,000
Amount of life savings playwright Sara Juli gave up that inspired Sara Juli’s The Money Conversation

13
Number of years of Artown

4
Number of Preservation Hall Jazz Band members who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina

3
Number of fake characters made up by other characters in The Nigerian Spam Scam Scam

1,293
Number of official 2008 Artown events listed on the festival’s Excel spreadsheet

34
Number of members of MarchFourth Marching Band

95
Number of specific venues during Artown

155,000
Number of coats the Harlem Gospel Choir helped collect for the homeless for Good Morning America’s coat drive this year.

30,000
Number of people who attended the first year of Artown

350,000
Estimated number of people who attended the 2007 event

6
Number of times Mandy Patinkin says in The Princess Bride “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”

11
Number of minutes into Vertigo that director Alfred Hitchcock makes a cameo