Halloween spending is expected to reach $8.4 billion this year – $1.5 billion more than in

Halloween spending is expected to reach $8.4 billion this year – $1.5 billion more than in 2015. To put the financial magnitude of the holiday in perspective, fhe personal-finance website WalletHub has unearthed some scary numbers:

v $547.9 million: Halloween candy sales (fourth biggest candy-selling holiday)

v $300-plus million: Annual revenue from ticket sales to haunted attractions (80 percent of which are charity-operated)

v 72 percent: Share of parents who say they steal Halloween candy from their kids

v 34.1 percent: Share of Americans who are throwing or attending a Halloween party

v 1.58 billion: Pounds of pumpkins produced in the United States each year. The top states for pumpkin harvests are New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and California.

“Rectify” (10 p.m., Sundance TV): “Rectify,” one of television’s best dramas, kicks off its farewell season. Former death-row inmate Daniel Holden (Aden Young) is technically a free man, but that doesn’t mean his new life in Nashville isn’t without complications.

“Jon Glaser Loves Gear” (10 p.m., truTV): This new “hybrid” comedy series follows Glaser (“Parks and Recreation”) as he tries to make a reality series about his love of various gadgets. Of course, things repeatedly go wrong.

TV listings, C5

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Chorale to present Halloween concert

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning Valley Chorale, under the direction of Kris Harper, will present a Halloween concert, “The Music of the Night,” at 3 p.m. Sunday at Fairview Arts and Outreach Center, 4220 Youngstown-Poland Road. Audience members are encouraged to wear costumes. Treat bags will be distributed to the children after the concert. Featured will be Sierra McCorvey, soprano, and Jason Fair, accompanist.

The program will include selections from “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Harry Potter and the Prison of Azkaban,” “Wicked,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “Cats” and “Ghostbusters.”

Children from the Southside Fine Arts Academy will also perform. The concert is free, but an offering will be received. Call 330-707-2144.

Jazz concert

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown State University jazz combos will give a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Spotlight Theater, on the first floor of Bliss Hall, on Wick Avenue. The program will include American Songbook standards and student compositions.

Haunted Bio Trail

NEW WILMINGTON, PA.

Westminster College’s SCION and Phi Kappa Tau will host the Haunted Bio Trail at 7 p.m. Friday at the Westminster Bio Trail. Tickets are $5. A bonfire to roast hot dogs and s’mores will be at the end of the trail for a small fee. A shuttle will transport participants between the trail, fire and stadium parking lot.

Ensembles concert

NEW WILMINGTON, PA.

Westminster College’s School of Music ensembles will give a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Orr Auditorium.