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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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