Question: Could you provide the number of people that the Colosseum can hold?
About the article "Colosseum", section "Abstract".

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Colosseum II is a band that came from the ashes of Colosseum and featured Don Airey, Neil Murray/John Mole, Mike Starrs, Jon Hiseman and Moore. 
As the city becomes more prosperous, the citizens will demand entertainment.
It can be in the form of theater, amphitheater, colosseum, or hippodrome.
Actor colonies, gladiator schools, lion houses, and chariot makers will provide the trained entertainer personnel. 
Colosseum is the annual Inter-Collegiate technical festival of the college held after Odyssey. 
  In the scene with the gladiator caravan coming into Rome, a wall that surrounds the entire city can be seen, which resembles the Aurelian Wall.
The Aurelian Wall was not made until 275 A.D.
In the film it is stated that the Colosseum holds 50,000 people.
It is now believed to have seated 73,000.
In the movie, the Colosseum is referred to by that name; in truth during the Roman Empire it was known as the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium).
The name "Colosseum", derived from the Latin word "colosseus" meaning colossal in reference to the broken remains of a giant statue of the Emperor Nero found there, came into common use around the 10th century.
After visiting the Colosseum, Ridley Scott thought it was too small so the one in the film is larger than the real Colosseum.
In the film most Roman architecture is portrayed as being white.
Historical excavations and archaeologists often say that this is a misconception, as most buildings and structures were somewhat coloured, and that we only believe this because what we find from Roman time (and even Greek) often look white.
This is only because the original colour, through the ages, has gradually disappeared and left structures and buildings white.   
During the 16th and 17th century, Church officials sought a productive role for the Colosseum.
Pope Sixtus V (1585–1590) planned to turn the building into a wool factory to provide employment for Rome's prostitutes, though this proposal fell through with his premature death.
In 1671 Cardinal Altieri authorized its use for bullfights; a public outcry caused the idea to be hastily abandoned.
In 1749, Pope Benedict XIV endorsed the view that the Colosseum was a sacred site where early Christians had been martyred.
He forbade the use of the Colosseum as a quarry and consecrated the building to the Passion of Christ and installed Stations of the Cross, declaring it sanctified by the blood of the Christian martyrs who perished there ("see Christians and the Colosseum").
However there is no historical evidence to support Benedict's claim, nor is there even any evidence that anyone prior to the 16th century suggested this might be the case; the "Catholic Encyclopedia" concludes that there are no historical grounds for the supposition.
Later popes initiated various stabilization and restoration projects, removing the extensive vegetation which had overgrown the structure and threatened to damage it further.
The façade was reinforced with triangular brick wedges in 1807 and 1827, and the interior was repaired in 1831, 1846 and in the 1930s.
The arena substructure was partly excavated in 1810–1814 and 1874 and was fully exposed under Benito Mussolini in the 1930s.
The Colosseum is today one of Rome's most popular tourist attractions, receiving millions of visitors annually.
The effects of pollution and general deterioration over time prompted a major restoration programme carried out between 1993 and 2000, at a cost of 40 billion Italian lire ($19.3m / €20.6m at 2000 prices).
In recent years the Colosseum has become a symbol of the international campaign against capital punishment, which was abolished in Italy in 1948.
Several anti–death penalty demonstrations took place in front of the Colosseum in 2000.
Since that time, as a gesture against the death penalty, the local authorities of Rome change the color of the Colosseum's night time illumination from white to gold whenever a person condemned to the death penalty anywhere in the world gets their sentence commuted or is released, or if a jurisdiction abolishes the death penalty.
Most recently, the Colosseum was illuminated in gold when capital punishment was abolished in the American state of New Mexico in April 2009.
Because of the ruined state of the interior, it is impractical to use the Colosseum to host large events; only a few hundred spectators can be accommodated in temporary seating.
However, much larger concerts have been held just outside, using the Colosseum as a backdrop.
Performers who have played at the Colosseum in recent years have included Ray Charles (May 2002), Paul McCartney (May 2003), Elton John (September 2005), and Billy Joel (July 2006).