Thursday, April 26, 2007

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

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