RE-INVENTION TOUR - DETAILS

The cities
- The songs - The performers - Numbers & figures - Tour grosses


The cities: Back to top
Here's the complete tour schedule, which covers 7 countries, 20 cities, 56 concerts.

US

May 24
May 25 26
May 27

The Forum, Los Angeles, CA Re-Invention Tour poster - click to enlarge

Re-Invention Tour poster - click to enlarge
May 29
May 30

MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, NV
June 02
June 03

Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim, Anaheim, CA
June 06
June 08
June 09

HP Pavilion, San Jose, CA
June 13
June 14

MCI Center, Washington, DC
June 16
June 17
June 20
June 21
June 23
June 24

Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY
June 27
June 28
June 30
July 01

Worcester Centrum, Worcester, MA
July 04
July 05

Wachovia Center, Philadelphia, PA
July 07
July 08

Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ
July 11
July 12
July 14
July 15

United Center, Chicago, IL
Canada

July 18
July 19
July 21

Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Canada
US

July 24
July 25

Philips Arena, Atlanta, GA
July 28
July 29

Office Depot Center, Sunrise, FL
August 01
August 02

American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL
UK

August 14
August 15

M.E.N. Arena, Manchester, UK
August 18
August 19

Earls Court, London, UK
August 22
August 23
August 25
August 26

Wembley Arena, London, UK
Ireland

August 29

Slane Castle, Dublin, Ireland
France

September 01
September 02
September 04
September 05

Palais Omnisports de Bercy, Paris, France
Holland

September 08
September 09

Gelredome, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Portugal

September 12 13
September 14

Atlantic Pavilion, Lisbon, Portugal


Remarks:
Madonna had to postpone her second show of the tour on May 25th due to illness. The show was rescheduled one day later.
For the European tour originally only London and Paris were announced. There were negociations for shows in Spain, Italy and Germany but for some reason they failed. Instead shows were added for Holland and Portugal.
Rumours about getting Madonna to Slane Castle started spreading in March and seemed confirmed when a licence was applied for in April, which got approved in June.
Madonna originally planned to play 3 shows in Israel, but cancelled her plan due to safety problems. According to rumours she had received death threats from extremists. She did visit Israel for a pelgrimage right after the tour.
The Lisbon shows almost got cancelled due to a conflict with a church group who reserved the venue the week prior to the concert. Since Madonna's crew needed the venue to set up the stage and to prepare for DVD recordings, both shows were pushed back one day. This is the reason why the tour book mentions September 12 & 13 instead of 13 & 14.
For a while, Madonna and the tour management considered extending the European tour with stops in Helsinki, Stockholm and Moscow. Although some of those negociations were almost finalized, Madonna decided to stick to the original idea to end the tour in Lisbon.
Like the Drowned World Tour, it was planned to broadcast one of the shows on TV. However, negociations with TV network CBS fell through when it didn't want to comply with Madonna's demand to air for more than 2 hours and commercial-free.
The 4-month long tour was chronicled by Jonas Akerlund in the I'm Going To Tell You A Secret documentary. The movie features several edited performances of the show and since the Lisbon show wasn't released on DVD yet, the documentary is the only way to see footage of the tour.

The songs: Back to top
 

The Beast Within (intro)
Vogue
Nobody Knows Me
Frozen
American Life
Express Yourself
Burning Up
Material Girl
Hollywood (interlude)
Hanky Panky
Deeper And Deeper
Die Another Day
Lament
Bedtime Story (video interlude)
Nothing Fails
Don't Tell Me
Like A Prayer
Mother And Father (with Intervention interlude)
Imagine (John Lennon cover)
Into The Groove (with bag pipes intro)
Papa Don't Preach (with American Life reprise)
Crazy For You
Music
Holiday

Remarks:
Tour programmer Mike McKnight confirmed in an interview that during the early process, many songs were considered for the setlist. He revealed that when the show was divided into 5 parts, Swim was performed in place of Frozen, I'm So Stupid & Love Profusion were included in the military segment (instead of Material Girl). The 1920s inspired torch song Devil Wouldn't Recognize You was to be premiered in the cabaret segment, along with Dress You Up & Take A Bow. For awhile, Live To Tell was considered in place of the John Lennon cover Imagine, and Die Another Day was the closing song of the show.

The following changes were probably done closer to the opening night:
Nothing Really Matters was meant to follow Nobody Knows Me with a similar choreography (eventually some steps are used by Madonna). Jamie King advised taking the track off, because two solo perfomances in a row with the conveyor belt could be kinda tiring, then Frozen replaced, as a break of the dance segment. The glittery corset segment was meant to feature 4 songs. The video background to Nothing Really Matters would be the one used on Nobody Knows Me, with the lyrics and for the original Nobody Knows Me perfomance, they would use the Aviddiva remix video of Nobody Knows Me, another reason to drop it, because Madonna thought it was too self-celebrating.

Material Girl wasn't meant at all to be on the setlist, because and only because Madonna really doesn't like it. Dress You Up was meant to be the final number on the war segment but Madonna had a hard time learning to play the song. Jamie King suggested and convinced Madonna so Material Girl got included.

Take A Bow was rehearsed as an interlude to Mother & Father but Madonna thought Intervention was more appropriate so she could give her kids the props and finish the cycle about her and her family.

Although some fans were hoping to see different songs on the European leg, the setlist for this tour didn't change, unlike the Drowned World Tour.

Madonna did change some elements for the show. She wore the gold corset for the shows in the US, Toronto, Slane, Lisbon and the 2nd show in Arnhem. For the British and French shows as well as the first Dutch show, she had a lilac corset. Her shirt during Papa Don't Preach read either "Kabbalists Do It Better", either "Italians Do It Better", while the Brits and Irish fans got their own shirt: "Brits Do It Better" and "Irish Do It Better". There were also 2 versions for Don't Tell Me: the French version with the Paris background and the British "Bittersweet Symphony" version with London background (used in the British shows, Slane, Lisbon and the 2nd Arnhem show).

The name of the tour, Re-Invention was Guy Ritchie's suggestion, as Madonna had 'Whore Of Babylon', 'Ground 0' or 'Nobody Knows Me' as possible titles for the tour.

Paris - click to enlarge

Paris - click to enlarge

Paris - click to enlarge

Paris - click to enlarge

Paris - click to enlarge

Paris - click to enlarge

Paris - click to enlarge
The performers & collaborators: Back to top
 
Madonna
Donna DeLory
Siedah Garrett

Vocals & guitar
Background vocals
Background vocals

Michael McKnight
Monte Pittman
Stuart Price
Steve Sidelnyk
Marcus Brown
Lorne Cousin

Programmer / Keyboards
Guitar
Musical Director / Keyboards
Drums
Keyboards
Bagpipe

Daniel "Cloud" Campos
Reshma Gajjar
Mihran Kirakosian
Paul Kirkland
Tamara Levinson
Valerie "Raistalla" Moise
Dawn Noel Pignuola
Marilyn Ortiz
Sean Aires Smith
Seth Steward
Zach Woodlee
Jason Young
Sergie Ventura

Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Skateboard Artist

Jamie King
Caresse Henry
Chris Lamb
Benny Collins
Shari Goldschmidt
Liz Rosenberg
Angela Becker
Ashley Kraines

Show Director, Set Designer / Choreographer
Management
Tour Production Director
Production Manager
Business Management
Publicist
Assistant to Madonna
Assistant to Madonna

Giovanni Bianco
Steven Klein
Dago Gonzalez
Chris Cunnigham

Artwork, logos & designer tourbook
Photography tourbook and video projection
Video projection
Video projection

Stella McCartney
Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel
Christian LaCroix

Costume designer
Costume designer
Costume designer

Special thanks to:

Yves Sain Laurent, Prada/Miu Miu, Dolce & Gabbana, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chanel, Julien D'Ys, Eugenia Kim, Jimmy Choo, Gina shoes of London, Joeboxer, Capezio, Louis Verdad, Alexander McQueen, Gyvenchy, Jeremy Scott, Converse, Hanes, Asics, Harbinger, Banana republic, Henry Rose, Kangol, Rocky Roeger, USA Kilts, Juicy, Gap, etc.

Numbers and figures: Back to top
 
750,000 Fans will see her show
110 People will travel on the road with the tour
58 Minutes for Madonna to get hair and makeup completed before show
56 security guards backstage
55 Tons of above ground equipment including sound, lights, videos and speakers
40 Tons is the weight of the stage
30 Trunks will carry wardrobe of entire touring company
25 Cases of Kaballah Water provided backstage nightly (backstage beverage of choice)
18 Semi Trucks will carry equipment including special 'Turntable' stage
18 Dressing Rooms in each venue for touring entourage
12 Tons of sound equipment in air
12 Dancers
8 Minutes for Madonna to do warmup on Pilates stretch ball
6 Madison Square Garden Shows sold out in one day
5 Costume changes
5 Musicians
4 Wembley Arena Shows sold out in one day
3 Toronto Shows sold out in one day
3 Ricola cough drops consumed by Madonna prior to start of show
2 Background vocalists
1 Full truck to house Madonna's wardrobe and makeup
1 Skateboarder
1 Large cup of Throat Coat Honey Lemon Tea consumed by Madonna prior to start of show
1 Children's Play room backstage
1 Bagpipe player

Tour grosses : Back to top
 
NORTH AMERICA
1. Inglewood, Calif.: $6,965,055 - 3 shows - 43,158 attendance
2. Las Vegas, Nev.: $7,005,548 - 2 shows - 28,341 attendance
3. Anaheim, Calif.: $4,164,450 - 2 shows - 24,250 attendance
4. San Jose, Calif.: $5,543,715 - 3 shows - 40,205 attendance
5. Washington, D.C.: $3,486,684 - 2 shows - 26,788 attendance
6. New York, New York: $12,674,925 - 6 shows - 88,625 attendance
7. Boston/Worcester, Mass.: $6,439,890 - 4 shows - 46,075 attendance
8. Philadelphia, Pa.: $4,134,478 - 2 shows - 30,575 attendance
9. East Rutherford, N.J.: $4,437,345 - 2 shows - 29,315 attendance
10. Chicago, Ill.: $7,894,105 - 4 shows - 59,591 attendance
11. Toronto: $5,322,703 - 3 shows - 52,167 attendance
12. Atlanta: $3,450,874 - 2 shows - 25,627 attendance
13. Fort Lauderdale/Sunrise, Fla.: $3,834,522 - 2 shows - 28,208 attendance
14. Miami, Fla.: $4,145,760 - 2 shows - 30,580 attendance
Totals for North American leg: 39 shows reported to Billboard - $79,500,054 - 553,505 tickets

EUROPE
1. Manchester, England: $5,136,114 - 2 shows - 27,320 attendance
2. London, England: $6,356,207 - 2 shows - 34,087 attendance
3. London, England: $9,809,717 - 4 shows - 45,267 attendance
4. Meath, Ireland: $6,575,339 - 1 show - 62,275 (only non-sellout date)
5. Paris, France: $7.357,529 - 4 shows - 68,000 attendance
6. Arnhem, Nethlerlands: $6,759,661 - 2 shows - 73,300 attendance
7. Lisbon, Portugal: $3,286,166 - 2 shows - 33,460 attendance
Totals for European leg: 17 shows reported to Billboard - $45,280,733 - 343,709 tickets

WORLDWIDE TOTAL: $ 124,780,078 - 56 dates - 897,214 tickets
   
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