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Create a fantastic piece of evergreen content for the major areas surrounding cities you target. The content for each smaller city will be used to build out large context for the major pieces of evergreen content.

so you end up with:

MAJOR ARTICLE ABOUT EVERYTHING IN NEW ENGLAND

^stuff to do in [enter city]

^best parks in [enter city]

^top 10 restaurants in [enter city]

Over time you end up with rich major pages that target large areas - with smaller niche content that is linking to and drawing deeper context to ALL things about an area. With smart URL's and initiatives such as targeted local facebook ads propagating content - and getting local bloggers involved - it'll all be downhill from there.

I would use each page created as an opportunity to target specific keywords. For each ticket page you can target the following areas: Month, Date, Venue, Type of Show, Play Name.

So for example:

http://www.charged.fm/event/tickets/2511448/kinky-boots

vs.

http://www.charged.fm/tickets/broadway-play/kinky-boots/Month-Date/

So if someone was to search:

broadway tickets for September...boom targeted

kinky boots september....boom targeted

kinky boots broadway tickets...boom targeted

broadway play tickets....boom targeted

Use each as an opportunity to deeply target the context of the page. Where title's have to be >60 Characters - we're allowed more wiggle room with H1.

I target specifically what I'm targeting in my title - and I use  contextually similar  text in H1.

Duplicating isn't going to hurt, but its a missed opportunity to draw deeper relevance and co-occurrence of other related terms.

okay cool - appreciate the input man. i think im just going to no-follow/no-index all the pages. and the big plan strategy is to slowly optimize each individual page as time goes on