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OKay, US tour reviews should actually be reworded as North American...you're leaving us Canadians out and since we're the first ones this time around...

Here's my review.

All I can say is WOW!!!!! What a concert! We got line up at 6 pm for the 7:30 showing...the doors didn't open until 6:30, but until about 10 after 6 we could hear Cher rehearsing. We got to enter at 6:35 and my friend was one of the first ones frisked by security...we hit the souveneer booth..definately hit it before the concert! It was nice before, but a mad house aftre, and many items were sold out and some booths were shut down already. The crowd was a huge mix...some young many old, and a pair of drag queens or Cher impersonators which the crowd was going wild over.

Tommy drake was supposed to be on at 7:30. He made it about 7:45 and wen until 8:30. Then there was a half hour intermission for those with short attention spand and nicotine habits. Cher came on at 9:00 and went until 10:33. Tommy Drake's show was wonderful! It was a great way to get into a good mood for the concert!!! He had some wonderful parts, and made fun of all our Red deer people beautifully!!! He can be a bit risque but he's good.

Cher started from the ceiling on the chandelier, did her song and then gave a comedy bit as well which was wonderful!. The Elephant is there...not as many hoop dancers as the DVD, but we saw Cirque de amis at K-days before the show (which we had free admission to with our cher tickets) so we got our hoop acrobats and our ribbon dancers there...but there was some of each in the concert. the costumes were amazing..man! Pictures do not do them justice!!! I dont remember the songs sang..there was the halfbreed/gypsies, tramps and thives/darklady medley, the shoop shoop song, if i could turn back time, a couple of her older songs from a bit before my time, and the encore was believe. We all had to clap and stand and whoot for that one. Then confetti was shot out above the lucky floor people, and I know one lucky stiff who got Cher money...but I didn't. He sent me a picture of it though.

The souveneer stands had the basic stuff..no pendant, no blanket or jacket. Had the magnets, the buttons, t-shirts and of course the tour book. The living proof t-shirt (the one I bought) has the tour dates on the back...from Calgary, AB toTallahassee, FL. Dates beyond that, maybe they'll be making anew swhirt for. The tour book is gorgeous. We were concert date #233 on this tour.

One Calgary reviewer apparently said that she loked tired (Im in Edmonton, not Calgary..so this is second hand info) but to me she looks a bit tired..her eyes do, but that could be (at risk of upsetting poeple) her eyelift maybe finally showing a bit of age. As far as the way she talked and danced she looked great to me. She seems a bit tired when you look at her face, but thats the only way it shows.

All in all I rate this concert 5 stars!! It was a wonderful time!!! the only minus I have for it is the retards coming in late (at 9:10 for a 7:30 concert???If she had started on time they would have missed most of it!!) and all the morons getting up continuously for more beer. Why would you want to get looped when you spent 85 dolars on tickets??? The tour book cost 35 dollars Canadian and the XXL t-shirt was 48 dollars Can. 45 if you get only the XL, but I like roomy!!!

I took pictures, but I'll be getting them developed tomorrow..not sure if they worked or not..I really hope so but I had a camera in my way (Cher's for her video TV's that are posted on either side of the stage) so if they worked I'll try and post them as soon as I can.

Im off to bed now. between the K-days, the circus there and then the Cher concert (and the hour wlak to my car before and after the concert) I'm pooped. Im going sleepy byes. Its bad enough I'll be deaf and tired at work tomorrow.

Don't quite know what you mean by set list..you'lll ahve to tell me that one..you mean the actual set? The list of songs? Not sure. She stuill does the ringmaster bit, it was after her comedy dialogue..it led into it...
Don't knwo what you want to knwo about costume changes...she does...frequently. Every other song there is a new costume and hopefuly i got all but 2 of them on film so there would have to be about 8 or 9 differnt changes i think..I'll know more when the pics get developed.

She wears, the red glitery one with the red wig (thats my personal favourite), the white glittery one, the black s and m one which Im sutre is the favourite of many a guy here, the elephant costume...indian maybe...the cat one with the mane...the jeans and white shirt, the coloured funky bell bottoms, and I can't remember the rest.'

The set was a two story, looked kinda like the foyour of a manor house...curving stairs on either side with a balcony in betweent hat for some shows she would be elevated on top and for others she would come through the doorway which when closed has stars on it...there are some markings on the stage but couldn't see what exactly they were, pretty celtic designs I things. Lots of lighting over the crowd and over Cher. I already listed the song list I could remember...um...videos playing in the background on the 3 screens, the middle one quite often was a split screen wuitht he video and live cher to the Right. (our right, not Cher's right). NO clowns thank god! A few dance scenes between songs, guitar solos, etc to distract us from stage set ups, and lots of videos stuff during her cistume changes. I woudl have to guess that for an hour and a half concert...that we got about 12-15 songs..that includes the four in the medley. It wasn't as many songs as I had hoped...so Im not sure on the total. She had davod letterman clips and other TV show clips, movie clips..oh yeah she sand the song that was a duet with Peter Cetera...her bassist i think it was sung it with her. Forgot that one in my song list...The showed scenes from Moonstruck to that one.

I hope I havn't missed anything. If I did post and let me know, and everyone cross their fingers for me that the piccies worked. i really hope they did.

Okay...I dnot remember the entire isting then, just what I emntioned, but if you are wondering about particular songs and give me the titles I can tell you if it was played, as then I'll remember whether i heard it or not. walking in memphis was did I mention that one??? I dont thin anything else from that album was played...belive, nothing else form that album I dont think, If I could turn back time and the peter cetera song, nothing else from the Heart of stone album I dont think,
the shoop shoop song but Im not too familiar with that era so Im not sure what album that is from. It was never one of my favourite songs. bang bang..is that the name of the song??? catchy tune but not one I had heard before...

no jessie james, or any of those catchy songs.

Medley was some song that was one of her first hits (I know, really helpful arent I...) half breed/gypsies tramps and thives and darklady.

I found someone was played. Im reading the tour book now to see what songs were played, so forgive the sporadicness of the listing now...

I found one interesting thing about the concert though, whenever she has a song that emntioned anyting that could be controversial, such as gypsies...tramps and thives, draklady where she does her gypsie...dance and there were a couple of other point...I think it was half breed where she said indian...she mumbles it. So it can't necessarily be understood unless you knwo the song. I thought that was kind of interesting.

Couldn't find anymore song listings...there is one more ballad I'm sure I am misisng, but other then that I thnk i may have most of them. I will say perhaps I have misssed 2 maybe 3 songs...if there is one you are wondering was played ask and I can hopefully tell you yea or nay.