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[hiromi525]

The following is a sentence from a textbook.
Is this grammatically correct?

Tickets to both the variety show and the comedy show can now be purchased at special group rates.

I look up the word "ticket" in a dictionary, and it says that "ticket to" and "ticket of" is a wrong usage. And there is one example in the dictionary, "a ticket for tonight's show"

[CP]

There's an old Eddie Money song, "Two Tickets to Paradise," that may give you a hint at the answer.

Usually you have tickets for a show / movie, but tickets to a destination.

Examples:

We bought tickets for the revival of "A Chorus Line."

I need two tickets to London for February.

Yet, it's also true that we say ticket to instead of ticket for some things like ball games, as in, "I have two tickets to the Dodgers-Angels game. Want to go?"
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[hiromi525]

Thank you very much.

I will remember the title of the music "Two Tickets to Paradise"
and I am going to try to listen it at iTunes.