Rainbow World Tour

Infobox concert tour
concert_tour_name = Rainbow World Tour


image_caption = The tourbook of Mariah Carey's Rainbow World Tour
artist = Mariah Carey
album = "Rainbow"
start_date = February 14, 2000
end_date = April 18, 2000
number_of_legs = 3
number_of_shows = 6 in Europe
4 in Asia
9 in North America
19 in Total
last_tour = Butterfly World Tour
(1998)
this_tour = Rainbow World Tour
(2000)
next_tour = Charmbracelet World Tour
(2003-2004)

The Rainbow World Tour was a worldwide arena concert tour in the year 2000 by American pop/R&B artist Mariah Carey.

History

Carey had released her ninth album "Rainbow" in November 1999 and decided to go on tour to promote it. Unlike her previous outing, the Butterfly World Tour, marked Carey's first tour in the US in 7 years since her 1993 Music Box Tour garnered a flurry of bad initial reviews. In addition to visiting more European countries, Carey also visited Singapore for the first time.

The tour grossed $7 million from the North American dates alone, according to "Billboard". Critical reaction was mixed at best, especially in the United States. A lot of people reproached her of having a tired and hoarse voice during this tour.Fact|date=February 2007 Of the debut American performance at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, "Variety" said: "Mariah Carey's show begs for either simplicity or coherency." [Variety magazine, [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-61426689.html Staples Center concert review] , March 27, 2000.] Of the United Center performance, and reflecting that this was the first time Mariah was scantily clad touring, "The Chicago Sun-Times" said that Carey had "been transformed from a wannabe Whitney to a wannabe Britney," and called her approach to concert performance "difficult to fathom." [Chicago Sun-Times, [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4246E706300CC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Mariah Carey at United Center] , March 27, 2000.]

The final three dates of the tour were pushed back a bit (Boston from April 4 to April 13, for example) after Carey got food poisoning from eating raw oysters after the concert in Atlanta. [ [http://pubpages.unh.edu/~gwd/mcboston.html Mariah Carey 4/13/00 Boston, MA Concert Review ] ]

The Show

During this tour, Mariah debuted new songs from the "Rainbow" album such as: "Can't Take That Away", "Heartbreaker", "Petals", "Thank God I Found You" and much more, including some of her biggest hits.

Once again, longtime friend Trey Lorenz was featured as a backup singer for Mariah.

The Toronto concert was filmed and scheduled to air on US television, but that never happened. Mariah even mentioned during the show it was being filmed.

Missy Elliot made a special appearance at the New York show during Heartbreaker

et list

North American Dates

# Introduction Medley: "Rainbow"/"Butterfly"
# "Emotions"
# "My All"
# "Always Be My Baby"
# "Heartbreaker"
# "Dreamlover"
# "X-Girlfriend"
# "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
# "Thank God I Found You" (with Trey Lorenz)
# "Make You Happy" (Trey Lorenz only)
# "Fantasy (Remix)"
# "Crybaby"
# "Close My Eyes"
# "Petals"
# "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)"
# "Honey"
# "Vision of Love" "encore"
# Interlude: "Rainbow"
# "Hero"
# "Butterfly" (Outro)

Europe / Japan

# Introduction Medley: "Rainbow"/"Butterfly"
# "Emotions"
# "My All"
# "Dreamlover"
# "X-Girlfriend"
# "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
# "Without You"
# "Make It Happen"
# "Thank God I Found You" (with Trey Lorenz)
# "Make You Happy" (Trey Lorenz)
# "Fantasy (Remix)"
# "Always Be My Baby"
# "Crybaby"
# "Close My Eyes"
# "Petals"
# "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)"
# "Heartbreaker"
# "Honey"
# "Vision of Love" "encore"
# Interlude: "Rainbow"
# "Hero"
# "Butterfly" (Outro)
# "All I Want for Christmas Is You" (Japan Only)

Songs Performed At Other Shows-"Sweetheart (Mariah Carey song)" at Belgium -"I Still Believe/Pure Imagination" at Singapore & Los Angeles

Band

Vernon Black, Eric Daniels (keyboards), Sam Simms, Gregory Gonaway, Marco Oliveria, Michael McKnight, Trey Lorenz (backing and featured vocals), Melonia Daniels, Lloyd Smith, MaryAnn Tatum (backing vocals), Tracy Harris.

Tour dates

References

External links

* [http://www.mariahcentral.com/rainbow.html MariahCentral article on tour]