Best of Both Worlds Tour

infobox concert tour
concert_tour_name = Best of Both Worlds Tour


artist = Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus
album = Hannah Montana
Jonas Brothers
Insomniatic
start_date = October 18, 2007
end_date = January 31, 2008
number_of_legs = 3
number_of_shows = 71Extra tour chronology
Group = Hannah Montana
Type = tour
Last tour = ""
(2007)
This tour = "Best of Both Worlds Tour"
(2007/2008)
Next tour = -Extra tour chronology
Group = Miley Cyrus
Type = tour
Last tour = —
This tour = "Best of Both Worlds Tour"
(2007/2008)
Next tour = "Breakout Tour"
(2009)

The Best of Both Worlds Tour was a 2007-2008 North American concert tour featuring singer, songwriter and actress Miley Cyrus of the Disney Channel series "Hannah Montana", performing both as a solo artist and in character as Hannah Montana. The tour is named after the theme song for the series, "The Best of Both Worlds", which reflects the dual nature of the series' character. The tour had the most in-demand concert tickets of 2007. The concert tour was choreographed, created and directed by Kenny Ortega, the director and choreographer of "High School Musical", "High School Musical 2", and "The Cheetah Girls 2". The concert in Salt Lake City, Utah was recorded for the live album and was also aired on Radio Disney with interviews with Miley in April 2008 as a part of Planet Premiere.

Itinerary

The tour followed the June 2007 release of Cyrus's double album "Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus". The tour began on October 18 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri and was initially scheduled to end on January 9 2008 in Albany, New York. [ [http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070808005287&newsLang=en Best of Both Worlds Tour News Release] ]

One dollar of each ticket from the tour went to benefit the City of Hope Foundation, which helps in fighting against cancer. [http://www.cityofhope.org/Media/ehope/07_0830/mileycyrus Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Tour- City of Hope]

The Jonas Brothers were the opening act for the first leg of the tour. They played a total of 54 shows on the tour.

In December, an additional 14 concerts had been added to the tour, beginning in Detroit on January 11 and ending in Miami on January 31. After the Jonas Brothers decided not to continue on the tour, Aly & AJ were chosen as the replacement to be the opening act from January 11 to January 24. Cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20165807,00.html|title=Miley Mania Continues: Cyrus Extends Her Tour|accessdate=2007-12-12|publisher=People Magazine|year=2007|author=Tim Nudd] Cite web|url=http://www.pr-inside.com/the-hannah-montana-miley-cyrus-r345470.htm|title=The Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus ``Best of Both Worlds Tour" Confirms 14 New Dates to Sold-Out Nationwide Tour|accessdate=2007-12-12|publisher=Business Wire 2007|year=2007|author=Walt Disney Records & Hollywood Records] The opening for the last leg of the tour was Everlife. The last leg of the tour included six dates, ending on January 31 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida.

Tickets controversy

Tickets for the Best Of Both Worlds Tour have been selling out for every show, with many shows selling out in just five minutes or less.cite news | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/06/business/06money.html | title=In the Race to Buy Concert Tickets, Fans Keep Losing | author=Ellen Rosen | publisher=The New York Times | date=2007-10-06 | accessdate=2007-10-07] Many tickets for the shows can then be found almost immediately after purchase on eBay, StubHub, or other secondary markets selling for well over the face value of the tickets. The Arkansas Attorney General's office said, “All hell broke loose with Hannah Montana. The tickets were gone in 12 minutes and when people turned around, they were selling at online sites for sometimes as much as 10 times the face value.” They promised an investigation, as did authorities in Missouri.cite news | url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-montana6oct06,1,2223991.story | title='Hannah Montana' stirs a U.S. tizzy | author=Geoff Boucher and Chris Lee | publisher=The Los Angeles Times | date=2007-10-06 | accessdate=2007-10-07] Some of the tickets were selling for over $1,000.

The shortage of tickets for the Cyrus/Montana tour became so pronounced that it gained national attention, with "The New York Times" using it and the concurrent Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Magic Tour as examples of how the general public is losing out on ticket sales and how some ticket brokers have cracked Ticketmaster's defenses to gain a stranglehold on tickets. The "Times", "The Los Angeles Times" and the "Houston Chronicle" all profiled several families unable to get tickets and balancing the cost of the secondary market against their child's disappointment. For their part, a Ticketmaster official said, "Hell hath no fury like the parent of a child throwing a tantrum. People who have been in this business for a long time are watching what's happening, and they say there hasn't been a demand of this level or intensity since the Beatles or Elvis." A vice president for tour promoter AEG Live said that, "The tickets are priced and sold as fairly as possible. I can assure you this is no conspiracy. We do everything in our power to stop brokers from getting tickets, but it's impossible. There has also been a controversy between Hannah Haters, whether or not there should be this much cotroversy over something as simple as tickets."cite web
last = Westbrook
first = Bruce
title = How much would you pay for Hannah Montana tickets?
publisher = Houston Chronicle
date = 2007-09-17
url = http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/5142413.html
quote = ... every show in every city, no matter how small, has sold out in minutes.
accessdate = 2007-09-17 ]

On November 13, 2007, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of frustrated fan club members unable to get tickets, against MileyWorld (the Miley Cyrus fan club) and its agents. [cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/13/hannahmontana.lawsuit.ap/index.html | title= 'Hannah Montana' fan club sued over tickets | publisher=Associated Press for CNN | date=2007-11-13] In late November, MileyWorld had a special offer to give MileyWorld members a chance to buy tickets. For the Lexington, Kentucky show, Ticketmaster stated they would sell "will-call" tickets on the date of the concert; ["Lexington Herald-Leader"] such date-of-show "ticket drops" have been a common anti-scalping practice for years on Bruce Springsteen tours. When tickets for the added January itinerary shows went on sale on December 15, patterns repeated; only a few lottery-style winnings at Ticketmaster outlets were able to purchase tickets,cite news | url=http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071216/APC0101/712160593/1979 | title=Fox Valley's Hannah Montana fans needed to act fast | work=Appleton Post-Crescent | date=2007-12-16] while Ticketmaster phone banks were tied up across multiple states and did not provide many buying chances either.

The Ultimate Miley Party

MileyWorld members could join "The Ultimate Miley Party" at the MileyWorld bus two hours before the concert at each venue. Members needed to bring their membership cards, but members had access to raffles that included winning a signed guitar, getting clothes that Cyrus wore, getting a tour of the tour bus, and getting 'Meet & Greet' passes. Many of the raffle prizes, however, were posters and temporary tattoos. [cite web | url=http://highvoltagemagazine.com/2007/10/miley-cyrus-is-hannah-montana.html | title= Miley Cyrus is Hannah Montana | publisher=High Voltage magazine | date=2007-10-22 | accessdate=2007-11-01]

Critical and commercial reception

The tour garnered $36 million in ticket revenues in 2007/2008, making it the 15th highest-grossing concert tour in North America for that year;cite news | url=http://www.pollstar.com/news/viewnews.pl?NewsID=9020 | title=The Police Lock Top 2007 Tours Spot | publisher=Pollstar | date=2007-12-26 | accessdate=2007-12-26] although its ticket prices were lower than many other tours.

et list

Jonas Brothers opening

#"Kids of the Future"
#"Just Friends"
#"That's Just the Way We Roll"
#"Hello Beautiful"
#"Goodnight and Goodbye"
#"Hold On"
#"SOS"

Aly & AJ opening

#"Closure"
#"Division"
#"Potential Breakup Song"
#"Insomniatic"
#"Bullseye"
#"No One"
#"Like Whoa"

Hannah Montana

#"Rock Star"
#"Life's What You Make It"
#"Just Like You"
#"Old Blue Jeans"
#"Nobody's Perfect"
#"Pumpin' Up the Party"
#"I Got Nerve"
#"We Got the Party" with the Jonas Brothers (first leg)/"Rock and Roll All Nite" with Aly and AJ (second leg) or Everlife (third leg)

*Note: When Aly & AJ started the extension leg of the tour, on January 11th, 2008, they sang a cover of KISS's Rock and Roll All Nite with Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana. When Everlife continued for the last leg of the tour, they also sang the song. This served as a substitute of the song "We Got the Party". When "We Got the Party" was performed, a double was used for around thirty seconds of the song to give Miley time to eat before changing into Miley Cyrus. This is due to Miley being hypoglycemic. This has been confirmed by the tour publicist and Miley Cyrus.

Jonas Brothers Interlude

#"When You Look Me in the Eyes"
#"Year 3000"

Aly & AJ Interlude

#"Chemicals React"
#"Rush"

Miley Cyrus

From [http://www.denverpost.com/ci_7283410 Denver Concert] .
#"Start All Over"
#"Good and Broken"
#"See You Again"
#"Let's Dance"
#"Right Here"
#"East Northumberland High"
#"G.N.O. (Girl's Night Out)"
#"The Best of Both Worlds"

Miley Cyrus Encore

#"Ready, Set, Don't Go" with Billy Ray Cyrus and Brandi Cyrus on guitar, if they are present, OR
#"I Miss You", in dedication to her grandfather, who passed away.
#"Clear", Cyrus sang this only on the last day of the tour with I Miss You.

Tour dates

Concert film

The concert tour was filmed in Salt Lake City, Utah and St. Louis, Missouri for presentation in Disney Digital 3D as a limited theatrical event originally scheduled for one week, February 1-7, 2008, in the U.S. and Canada and later in numerous other countries. Because of popular demand, the movie's run was extended indefinitely. The film was directed by Bruce Hendricks and produced by Art Repola (who also directed and produced ESPN's "").cite press release
title = Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour Headed to Digital 3D Movie Theaters
publisher = Walt Disney Studios
date = 2007-10-17
url = http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-17-2007/0004684315&EDATE=
accessdate = 2007-10-18] Filming started on October 26, 2007 in Salt Lake City.

Live Album

Hannah Montana: Best of Both Worlds Concert is a live album and movie soundtrack for her 3-D film by Miley Cyrus recorded in 2007 during her Best of Both Worlds Tour.

External links

* [http://www.disney.com/hannah Disney: Hannah Montana MyConcert MemoryBook]

References