The Girlie Show World Tour 1993

The Band:

• Jai Winding, Michael Bearden - Keyboards
• Paul Pesco - Guitar
• Victor Bailey - Bass
• Omar Hakim - Drums
• Luis Conte - Percussion
• Mike McKnight - Additional Keyboards
• Niki Haris, Donna De Lory - Background Vocals
• Ungela Brockman, Christopher Childers, Michael Gregory, Carrie Ann Inaba, Jill Nicklaus, Ruth Inchaustegui, Luca Tommassini, Carlton, Wilborn - Dancers

Opening Acts: UNV (some USA venues), Yonca Evcimik and Kenan Dogulu (Istanbul), and Peter Andre (Australia)

Tour Started: September 25, 1993 - Wembley Stadium, London
Tour Ended: December 19, 1993 - Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
Costumes by: Dolce and Gabbana

Interesting Facts:

• Some venues forbade toplessness, so Carrie Inaba had to wear a halter top to conceal her assets.
• In Toronto Madonna held up traffic when she jogged through the streets.
• Orthodox Jews staged protests to cancel Madonna's first-ever show in Israel.
• In Puerto Rico, an uproar was caused when Madonna rubbed the Puerto Rican flag between her legs on stage.
• Caught by reporters at the birthplace of Christ in Jerusalem, Madonna called them "sons of whores" and hurled other vicious slurs in Hebrew and Arabic, then dodged a meeting with Mayor Teddy Koleck.
• The Girlie Show required 1500 costumes for the cast, and a 24-hour set up time for the enormous stage.

Review:

"Why does the rhetoric of fiaso and decline hover over the production like a vulture? Forget the naysayers - the wise thing to do is try to get tickets. Madonna may have failed at other things, but her stage performance - her fluent and daring dancers imagination, her genius for iconographic playfulness, her libertine expansiveness - is a wonder of our times." - The New Yorker.

Song Lineup:
Erotica
Fever
Vogue
Just My Imagination/Rain
Express Yourself
Deeper and Deeper
Why's It So Hard
In This Life
Justify My love: The Beast Within
Like A Virgin
Bye Bye Baby
I'm Going Bananas
La Isla Bonita
Holiday
Justify My love
Everybody Is A Star/Everybody

Tour Schedule:

• 25/9/93 - Wembley Stadium, London, UK
• 26/9/93 - Wembley Stadium, London, UK
• 28/9/93 - Palais Omnisports, Paris, France
• 29/9/93 - Palais Omnisports, Paris, France
• 1/10/93 - Palais Omnisports, Paris, France
• 2/10/93 - Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany (cancelled)
• 4/10/93 - Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv, Israel
• 7/10/93 - Inonu Stadium, Istanbul, Turkey
• 11/10/93 - Toronto SkyDome, Toronto, Canada
• 12/10/93 - Toronto SkyDome, Toronto, Canada
• 14/10/93 - Madison Square Garden, New York
• 15/10/93 - Madison Square Garden, New York
• 17/10/93 - Madison Square Garden, New York
• 19/10/93 - The Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA
• 21/10/93 - The Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, Michigan
• 23/10/93 - Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Canada
• 26/10/93 - Juan Ramon Lubriel Stadium, Bayamon, Puerto Rico
• 30/10/93 - River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 31/10/93 - River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• 3/11/93 - Estadio Do Morumbi, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• 6/11/93 - Estadio Do Maracana, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
• 10/11/93 - Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico City, Mexico
• 12/11/93 - Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico City, Mexico
• 13/11/93 - Autodromo Hermanos Rodriquez, Mexico City, Mexico
• 19/11/93 - Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia
• 20/11/93 - Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia (resch. 12/4)
• 24/11/93 - Brisbane Anz Stadium, Brisbane, Australia
• 26/11/93 - Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia
• 27/11/93 - Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia
• 29/11/93 - Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia
• 1/12/93 - Adelaid Oval, Adelaide, Australia
• 3/12/93 - Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia
• 4/12/93 - Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia
• 7/12/93 - Fukuoka Dome, Fukuoka, Japan
• 8/12/93 - Fukuoka Dome, Fukuoka, Japan
• 9/12/93 - Fukuoka Dome, Fukuoka, Japan
• 13/12/93 - Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
• 14/12/93 - Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
• 16/12/93 - Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
• 17/12/93 - Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
• 19/12/93 - Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan