The Fame Ball Tour

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The Fame Ball Tour
Tour by Lady Gaga
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Official poster for the tour
Location
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Oceania
Associated album The Fame
Start dateMarch 12, 2009
End dateSeptember 29, 2009
Legs10
No. of shows71
Box office$3.15 million ($4.47 in 2023 dollars) [1]
Lady Gaga concert chronology

The Fame Ball Tour was the debut concert tour by American singer Lady Gaga, in support of her debut studio album The Fame (2008). North American shows began in March, followed by dates in Oceania and a solo trek through Europe. Dates in Asia soon followed, as well as two performances at England's V Festival and two shows in North America that had been postponed from April. Gaga described the tour as a traveling museum show incorporating artist Andy Warhol's pop-performance art concept. Tickets were distributed for charity also. Alternate versions of the show with minimal variations were planned by Gaga to accommodate different venues.

Contents

The show consisted of four segments, with each segment being followed by a video interlude to the next segment, and it ended with an encore. The set list consisted of songs from her debut album, as well as an unreleased track called "Future Love". Gaga's performance involved multiple costume changes, and included an innovative dress made entirely of plastic bubbles. An alternate set list with minor changes were performed after the first North American leg of the tour. The show has received critical acclaim with critics complimenting her vocal clarity and fashion sense as well as her ability to pull off theatrics like a professional artist.

Background

The tour was officially announced on January 12, 2009, through Gaga's official Myspace page. It was her first headlining tour; she has previously served as opening act for New Kids on the Block's New Kids on the Block: Live tour, as well as The Pussycat Dolls' Doll Domination Tour. [2] Gaga stated, "I consider what I do to be more of an Andy Warhol concept: pop performance art, multimedia, fashion, technology, video, film. And it's all coming together, and it's going to be traveling museum show." [3] Gaga started planning for the show while on the tour with The Pussycat Dolls. [4] In an interview with MTV News, she described the concert series:

"It's not really a tour, it's more of a traveling party. I want it to be an entire experience from [the] minute you walk in [the] front door to [the] minute I begin to sing. And when it's all over, everyone's going to press rewind and relive it again. [...] It's going to be as if you're walking into New York circa 1974: There's an art installation in the lobby, a DJ spinning your favorite records in the main room, and then the most haunting performance that you've ever seen on the stage. [...] I'm on the phone every minute of every day, talking to people, being creative, planning this Ball, and my tour manager is constantly saying, 'Come on, we have to go, we've got to go right now,' [...] But to me, the Ball is so important. I want so much to make every depression dollar that everyone spends on my show worth it. And, yeah, I'm paying a lot for it — out of my own pocket. But that's OK. I just don't care about money." [4]

Gaga prepared three versions of her show to cater to different sizes of the venues she played. In an interview with Billboard she said,

"I am so mental and sleepless and excited for this tour, [...] This is so different than anything you've seen from me in the past year. What's fantastic about [the show] was I was able to plan it while I was on another tour that was on a much smaller scale, opening for the Dolls. This is going to be, like, the ultimate creative orgasm for me 'cause I'm ready to move on. I'm not restricted to a certain structure for my show anymore. No limitations. I'm free. [...] I want to have a clear schedule of the dimensions for each venue so that we can properly execute all the technology and visuals. I need to mentally prepare days in advance if things are going to be taken out; otherwise, I won't have a good show...Every show's gonna be an A show by the time I'm done screaming at everyone – 'Hang it! Hang everything! Find a place to hang it!' That's gonna be my motto." [5]

The set list consisted of songs from her debut album mainly, but some new songs like "Fashion" from the Confessions of a Shopaholic soundtrack were also considered. [5] In May, during an interview with Edmonton Sun , Gaga announced that the tour would continue through European festivals in summer. She also declared plans for a bigger North American tour including Canada. Gaga explained that the show is supposed to be much bigger than the previous version. She said, "Oh, you have no idea, [...] The tour that we're about to announce is such a dream that I have to pinch myself almost every day to remind myself that it's happening." [6]

Concert synopsis

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Lady Gaga riding a vespa while performing "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)" (left), and wearing a yellow dress for "Just Dance" (right)

The show is mainly divided into four parts with the last part being the encore. The main show began with a video introduction called "The Heart" where Gaga appeared as alter-ego Candy Warhol. [7] She was shown dressing up and displayed the symbol of a pink heart on her T-shirt and said "My name is Lady Gaga, and this is my house." [8] The video was projected on a giant screen in front of the stage. As the video approached towards the end, a countdown from ten to one happened, Gaga's face was shown wearing the video sunglasses, and flames engulfed the screen as it dropped. Gaga appeared in the middle of the stage being surrounded by her dancers holding glass encrusted plates which camouflage them. She wore a futuristic black dress in geometric patterns with a triangular piece on her right breast and peplum. DJ Space Cowboy was present at a corner, playing the backing music. [8] Gaga came out in the center as the plates rolled around and started singing "Paparazzi". [9]

The performance ends with continuous clicking of the camera. Gaga comes to the top of the pillar and sings a combination of "Starstruck" and "LoveGame" as she is joined by her dancers in tracks and jackets and hands Gaga her trademark disco stick. After "LoveGame", she talks a monologue about the year "3009". And says that "The kids came out of New York and shot the paparazzi." followed by saying "It was a thousand years before when the monster first entered the city, vanished for our hearts and for our brains and for our faces (referencing to the three video interludes of the tour)" and "we knew we could co-exist with this monster with our MUSIC!!! With our art and with our fashion. My name is Lady Gaga." and tells the crowd she feels "beautiful and dirty rich" and sang "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich". This leads to the end of the first part wherein a video introduction called "The Brain" starts with Gaga appearing again as Candy Warhol and brushing her hair. [9] After the video ends, Gaga appears on the stage in a black and white leotard with high-pointed "puff" shoulders and lightning shaped symbols, while riding on a similarly colored vespa. [7] She then starts singing "The Fame". This is followed by a speech. Gaga said she's been "travelling the whole world, but when I get back, I can still smell the stench of greed." And then she performs "Money Honey" with the dancers who are wearing backpacks. "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)" starts immediately, accompanied by hand-waving and Gaga wore a hat made of toppled dominoes. [9]

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Lady Gaga performing "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" in a tinfoil tutu (left), and playing on a keytar during "Money Honey" (right) in a London show

Gaga then leaves the stage only to appear shortly after in a dress completely made of plastic bubbles. [9] She sits in front of a glass piano and starts singing an acoustic version of "Poker Face". She sometimes puts her leg on the piano and even plays it with her stilettos. And then, thanks the audience and surprises them by performing an unreleased and new song called "Future Love" whose lyrics referenced far-off galaxies, mechanical hearts and constellations. [10] She was surrounded by a glowing mannequin while singing the song. [11] The stage had a blue setting with mechanical fog. Gaga left for a costume change as the third video interlude titled The Face starts.

After the video ended, she then came on the stage wearing a tutu shaped dress with pointed shoulder pads and peplum. Her dancers were clad in Louis Vuitton Steven Sprouse printed trousers which matched Gaga's shoes. [12] The backdrop changed to show blinking disco lights and Gaga stood in the center wearing her video sunglasses which display the line "Pop Music Will Never Be Low Brow". A remix of the intro for "Just Dance" started and Gaga was joined by her dancers on stage. When the song shifts to the bridge, Gaga once again is handed her disco stick and performs the bridge with it. The ending shifts to a remixed version of the song. Then Gaga and the dancers, joined by DJ Space Cowboy or DJ Nicodemus, take a bow in front of the audience. Gaga comes back with her dancers to perform the encore. The encore of the tour consisted of "Boys, Boys, Boys" and the original version of "Poker Face". Gaga was dressed in a khaki leotard embellished with crystals. She wore an admiral's cap and gloves on her hands, both were decorated with the word Gaga on them.

Critical response

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Gaga speaking to the audience while wearing a dress made of plastic bubbles

Sheri Linden from Yahoo! gave a positive review of the concert saying "Gaga's first theater tour is a hot ticket – and the Lady did not disappoint. Borrowing from Madonna, Grace Jones, David Bowie and Daryl Hannah's Blade Runner replicant, Gaga put on a compelling show revolving around her mysterious persona, a trio of leather-jacketed dancers, multiple costume changes and props and a lone DJ providing musical accompaniment." [13] Christopher Muther from The Boston Globe reviewed the concert in House of Blues and said "The combination of song and spectacle was crowd-pleasing and exhilarating. Her club-ready songs were delivered by a woman who is clearly studied, intelligent, and talented." [14] Lynn Saxberg from the Ottawa Citizen was also positive in her review, which she wrote after the concert at Bronson Centre in Ottawa and said, "Accompanied by a DJ who also played a funky electric guitar, the curvy dynamo (Gaga and Space Cowboy) fronted one of wildest spectacles ever mounted at Bronson Centre, an action-packed circus of sound, lights, video images, fog and choreography. Though heavy on theatrics, there was no skimping on the music." She also commented on Gaga's fashion sense and style in her costumes by saying, "In an hour, Gaga proved her star power by packing in all her hits, displaying influences that ranged from Motown to 80s pop, and exhibiting a fearless fashion sense in several costume changes, none of which covered her bum." [15] Whitney Pastorek of Entertainment Weekly gave a mixed review of the concert, saying, "Her onstage banter was at times a bit silly and the visuals occasionally lacking in coherent theme, but her voice was strong and refreshingly free of overbearing tracking vocals. For all her cocky bluster, perhaps the most undeniable aspect of Gaga's talent is this: The girl can, and does, sing." The show was described to be a "sartorial experimentation that it made Rocky Horror look like cotillion. One presumed the Lady approved – and somewhere, to be sure, Andy Warhol stirred in his grave." [8]

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During the first North American leg, Gaga performed "Poker Face" in a khaki leotard and an admiral's cap (left), while during later shows, she performed it in a nude colored leotard (right).

Andy Downing from Chicago Tribune was impressed by the show at House of Blues and said "The work is paying off. Just weeks into her first nationwide headlining tour, the 22-year-old New Yorker [...] already commands the stage like a seasoned pro." [9] Jill Menze from Billboard also gave a positive review for the performance and complimented songs like "Just Dance", "LoveGame", "Poker Face", "Boys Boys Boys" and the fame obsessed "Paparazzi". The reviewer also said that "[From] her chart success, Lady Gaga has proven herself to be an of-the-moment pop sensation. Dig deeper, and it's clear she's versatile and talented enough to have staying power." [16] Mikel Wood from Rolling Stone also gave a positive review saying "The tongue-in-cheek tabloid-victim shtick that provides some laughs on The Fame grew somewhat tiresome at the Wiltern, especially when the singer started spewing half-baked media-studies nonsense like, 'Some say Lady Gaga is a lie'... Fortunately, this is a woman who knows how to lighten a mood: Within 10 minutes or so, she'd donned a flesh-colored leotard and a bedazzled admiral's cap and was rhyming 'boys in cars' with 'buy us drinks in bars'." [17] Craig Rosen from The Hollywood Reporter said that "Lady Gaga showed she's a serious contender to Madonna's crown [...]. She might be a relative newcomer, but the artist born Stefani Joanne Germanotta commanded the stage with a royal air during her hourlong set, at times even sporting a glowing scepter." [11]

Opening acts

Set list

Original

This set list was used from March 12 to May 2, 2009. Gaga would later use it again for her concert on June 19.

  1. "Paparazzi"
  2. "LoveGame" (contains elements of "Starstruck")
  3. "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich"
  4. "The Fame"
  5. "Money Honey"
  6. "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)"
  7. "Poker Face" (piano version)
  8. "Future Love"
  9. "Just Dance"
Encore
  2. "Boys Boys Boys"
  3. "Poker Face"

Revamped

This set list was used from June 26 to August 23, 2009.

  1. "Paparazzi" (Alvinos Remix)
  2. "LoveGame"
  3. "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich"
  4. "The Fame"
  5. "Money Honey"
  6. "Boys Boys Boys"
  7. "Just Dance"
  8. "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)"
Encore
  2. "Brown Eyes"
  3. "Poker Face"

Notes

Tour dates

Date (2009)CityCountryVenue
North America [19]
March 12 San Diego United States House of Blues
March 13 [lower-alpha 1] Los Angeles Wiltern Theatre
March 14 [19] San Francisco Mezzanine
Two shows
March 16 Seattle Showbox at the Market
March 17 Portland Wonder Ballroom
March 18 Vancouver Canada Commodore Ballroom
March 21 Englewood United States Gothic Theatre
March 23 Minneapolis Fine Line Music Cafe
March 24 [20] Chicago House of Blues
Two shows
March 25 [lower-alpha 2] Royal Oak Royal Oak Music Theatre
March 26 Kitchener CanadaElements Nightclub
March 27 Ottawa Bronson Centre Theatre
March 28 Montreal Métropolis
March 30 Boston United StatesHouse of Blues
April 4 [lower-alpha 3] Palm Springs Oasis Hall
April 6 Orlando House of Blues
April 7 Tampa The Ritz Ybor
April 8 Fort Lauderdale Revolution Live
April 9 Atlanta Center Stage Theater
April 11 [lower-alpha 4] Palm SpringsOasis Hall
Europe [19]
April 24 Madrid Spain La Cubierta
April 25 Moscow Russia Famous
April 28 [lower-alpha 5] Stuttgart Germany Club Zapata
North America [19]
May 1 Philadelphia United States Electric Factory
May 2 [24] New York City Terminal 5
Two shows
May 3 [lower-alpha 6] Agawam Northern Star Arena
May 4 [lower-alpha 7] BostonHouse of Blues
May 6 [lower-alpha 8] Austin Austin Music Hall
May 8 [lower-alpha 9] Chula Vista Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
May 9 [lower-alpha 10] Irvine Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
May 10 [lower-alpha 11] West Sacramento Raley Field
Oceania [29] [19]
May 25 [lower-alpha 12] Sydney Australia Paddington Uniting Church
Asia
June 8 Tokyo Japan Shibuya-AX
June 14 Clarke Quay Singapore The Dome on Merchant Loop
June 17 Seoul South Korea Club Answer
North America [31]
June 19 Toronto Canada Kool Haus
Europe [32]
June 26 [lower-alpha 13] Pilton England Worthy Farm
June 29 Manchester Manchester Academy
July 1 [lower-alpha 14] Cork Ireland The Marquee
July 3 [lower-alpha 15] Werchter Belgium Werchter Festival Grounds
July 8 [lower-alpha 16] Floriana Malta Fuq il-Fosos
July 9 Paris France L'Olympia
July 11 [lower-alpha 17] Perth and Kinross Scotland Balado
July 12 [lower-alpha 18] Naas Ireland Punchestown Racecourse
July 13 [lower-alpha 19] ManchesterEngland Carling Apollo Manchester
July 14London O2 Academy Brixton
July 16 Munich Germany Zenith die Kulturhalle
July 17 Cologne Palladium
July 18 Berlin Columbiahalle
July 20 Amsterdam Netherlands Melkweg
July 21 Zürich Switzerland Maag Event Hall
July 22 Vienna Austria Gasometer Halle
July 24 Ibiza SpainEden
July 25AmsterdamNetherlands Paradiso
July 26 Hamburg Germany Stadtpark Freilichtbühne
July 28 Helsinki Finland Kulttuuritalo
July 30 Oslo Norway Sentrum Scene
July 31 Copenhagen Denmark K.B. Hallen
August 1 [lower-alpha 20] Östersund Sweden Storsjöyran Festligterräng
August 2 Stockholm Stora Scen
Asia [19]
August 7 [lower-alpha 21] Osaka JapanMaishima Sports Island
August 8 [lower-alpha 21] Chiba Makuhari Messe
August 9 Seoul South Korea Olympic Hall
August 11 Quezon City Philippines Araneta Coliseum
August 12Singapore Fort Canning Park
August 15 Macau Venetian Arena
August 19 [lower-alpha 22] Tel Aviv Israel Expo Tel Aviv
Europe [19]
August 22 [lower-alpha 23] Weston-under-Lizard England Weston Park
August 23 [lower-alpha 23] Chelmsford Hylands Park
North America [19]
September 28 [lower-alpha 24] Richmond United States Landmark Theater
September 29 Washington, D.C. DAR Constitution Hall

Box office score data

VenueCityAttendanceRevenue
House of BluesSan Diego1,000 / 1,000$18,500 [43]
Wiltern TheatreLos Angeles2,700 / 2,700$52,904 [44]
Gothic TheaterEnglewood1,088 / 1,088$20,000 [45]
Royal Oak Music TheatreRoyal Oak1,700 / 1,700$34,000 [45]
MétropolisMontreal2,255 / 2,255$50,387 [44]
The Ritz YborTampa1,560 / 1,560$31,065 [46]
DAR Constitution HallWashington, D.C.3,500 / 3,500$141,004 [46]
Total13,803 / 13,803 (100%)$347,860

Notes

  1. ↑ This concert was originally scheduled to take place in Avalon.
  2. ↑ This concert was originally scheduled to take place in Crofoot Ballroom.
  3. ↑ This concert was a part of the "Dinah Shore Weekend" [21]
  4. ↑ This concert was a part of the "White Party" [22]
  5. ↑ This concert was a part of the "SWR3 Party" [23]
  6. ↑ This concert was a part of Kiss 95.7's "Summer Kick Off" [25]
  7. ↑ This concert was a part of the "Grammy Celebration Concert Tour" [26]
  8. ↑ This concert was a part of the "Second Chance Prom" [27]
  9. ↑ This concert was a part of Channel 933's "Summer Kick Off"
  10. ↑ This concert was a part of "Wango Tango" [28]
  11. ↑ This concert was a part of 107.9 The End's "EndFest 2009"
  12. ↑ This concert was a part of Kia Soul Live at The Chapel. [30]
  13. ↑ This concert was a part of the "2009 Glastonbury Festival" [33]
  14. ↑ This concert was a part of "Live at the Marquee" [34]
  15. ↑ This concert was a part of "Rock Werchter" [35]
  16. ↑ This concert was a part of "Isle of MTV" [36]
  17. ↑ This concert was a part of "T in the Park" [37]
  18. ↑ This concert was a part of "Oxegen" [38]
  19. ↑ This concert was a part of "Orange Rockcorps Live Concert Event" [39]
  20. ↑ This concert was a part of "Storsjöyran" [40]
  21. 1 2 These concerts were a part of the "Summer Sonic Festival" [41]
  22. ↑ This concert was a part of "Non-Stop Musix" [42]
  23. 1 2 These concerts were a part of "V Festival"
  24. ↑ This concert was originally scheduled to take place on April 3, 2009, in National Theater, but was moved to Landmark Theater and then cancelled.

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The Joanne World Tour was the sixth headlining concert tour by American singer Lady Gaga, in support of her fifth studio album, Joanne (2016). It began on August 1, 2017, in Vancouver, Canada and ended on February 1, 2018, in Birmingham, England. After tickets went on sale, various shows in Europe and North America quickly sold out, prompting additional dates in both continents.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lady Gaga Enigma + Jazz & Piano</span> Las Vegas residency show

Lady Gaga Enigma + Jazz & Piano is a concert residency by American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga held at the Park Theater in the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada. The residency consists of two types of shows: Enigma, which focuses on theatricality and includes the singer's biggest hits, and Jazz & Piano, which involves songs from the Great American Songbook and stripped-down versions of Gaga's songs. The Enigma show was built around a loose storyline about "healing and finding yourself", and saw Gaga wearing various sci-fi inspired outfits. For Jazz & Piano, Gaga aimed for "glamour and elegance", with her wardrobe harkening back to the Jazz Age and vintage Vegas. The Enigma shows opened on December 28, 2018, and the Jazz & Piano shows opened on January 20, 2019. After a 21-month long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the residency returned to the theater on October 14, 2021.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Chromatica Ball</span> 2022 concert tour by Lady Gaga

The Chromatica Ball was the seventh headlining concert tour by American singer Lady Gaga in support of her sixth studio album, Chromatica (2020). Comprising 20 shows, it began on July 17, 2022, in Düsseldorf and concluded on September 17, 2022, in Miami Gardens. Initially conceived as a six-date-long, limited tour, new dates were added after it was delayed by two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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