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The Monster Ball Tour
Tour by Lady Gaga
A female blond woman stands in a silvery metallic leotard. Her left foot is put forward and she wears black heels and sunglasses. Around her, she wears a number of concentric metallic rings which encircles her. Behind her, a number of drunk men are visible, some standing and some sitting. Above the woman the words 'The Monster Ball Tour' is written in white font. Beneath it, the words 'Starring LADY GAGA' are written in white on black.
The official tour poster
Associated albumThe Fame Monster
Start dateNovember 27, 2009
End dateMay 19, 2010 (to date)
No. of shows37 in North America
15 in Europe
11 in Oceania
2 in Japan
65 in Total
Lady Gaga concert chronology

The Monster Ball Tour is the second concert tour by American recording artist Lady Gaga to promote her second studio album, The Fame Monster. The tour was officially announced on October 15, 2009, after her joint concert tour with rapper Kanye West, titled Fame Kills, was suddenly canceled. Described by Gaga as "the first-ever 'pop electro opera'", The Monster Ball began four days after the release of The Fame Monster. Rapper Kid Cudi and singer Jason DeRulo were confirmed as the supporting act for the American stop of the tour, while the band Alphabeat will support the UK stop of the tour. Virgin Mobile USA sponsored the tour. Gaga's production team Haus of Gaga designed the poster and the stage of the concert, including a giant contraption called "The Orbit".

Gaga and her production team developed a stage that looks like a frame with forced perspectives and everything for the show fitted within it. She felt that the design would allow her creative control. Since the album dealt with the paranoias faced by Gaga over the year, the main theme of the show became evolution, with Gaga portraying growth as the show progressed. She compared the setting of the stage with that of a hollowed-out television set. Elements of the cancelled tour with Kanye West were incorporated in some parts. The set list of the tour consisted of songs from The Fame Monster as well as her debut album The Fame.

The show was divided into five segments with the last one being the encore. Each segment featured Gaga in a new dress and was followed by a video interlude, portraying Gaga in Gothic and artsy poses, to the next one. The show began with Gaga appearing from behind an electric maze of lights. It continued with acoustic piano playing, dancing in costumes made of guns, Cleopatra style head gears and fairy-tale Rapunzel style hair. Contemporary critics praised the show, commending Gaga's singing abilities and sense of style and fashion. They were also impressed by the pompousness and the theatricality of the show, comparing it to the tours of artists like Madonna.

Background

Gaga performing "Just Dance" while playing a keytar.

Initially, hip-hop artist Kanye West and Lady Gaga had plans to launch a joint tour together. Fame Kills: Starring Lady Gaga and Kanye West was confirmed in September 2009 as a concert tour that West and Gaga would co-headline.[1] In the aftermath of the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, West made a public statement that he would take a break from the music industry following the media and public reaction to his outburst during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for winning the VMA for Best Female Video. Nevertheless, the complete schedule for Fame Kills was released, with the tour set to begin on November 10, 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona.[2] Shortly afterwards, the tour was officially canceled without any explanation.[3] Gaga addressed the situation at Billboard's annual Women in Music luncheon where she cited creative differences as the reason for the tour's cancellation. In an interview she stated, "[Kanye] is going to take a break, but the good news is, I am not."[4]

After ensuring the public that she would be embarking on a solo tour in lieu of the defunct Fame Kills tour, Gaga officially announced The Monster Ball Tour on October 15, 2009. The tour had originally been planned to debut in London in early 2010, but will now kick off on November 27, 2009 in Montreal, QC.[5][6] Rapper Kid Cudi and singer Jason DeRulo were confirmed as the supporting act for the tour. While Kid Cudi is confirmed to be supporting Gaga from the beginning of the tour, DeRulo will join the tour beginning on December 28, 2009.[5][7] The official poster for the tour features Gaga in her signature Versace 676 sunglasses and what she has dubbed "The Orbit", which she first wore on the October 3, 2009 edition of Saturday Night Live. The contraption was designed by Nasir Mazhar in collaboration with Gaga's own creative production company, Haus of Gaga.[4][8] The tour was sponsored by Virgin Mobile USA. It introduced the "Free I.P." program, offering fans who volunteer their time to homeless youth organizations access to free show tickets.[9]

Development

Gaga performing "Alejandro" in Toronto.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Gaga explained that she wanted to put together an expensive looking, beautiful show which would be affordable by her fans.[6] She explained that the tour is a "pop-electro opera" because the theatrics and the story elements interwoven in the tour are played like an opera. According to her the design of the show is innovative and forward in terms of creativeness. Gaga wanted to change the shape of the stage and designed one with Haus of Gaga that is "essentially a frame with forced perspective, and the frame is put inside the stage."[6] Gaga explained,

"It's got kind of a triangular inset, like a diamond, and everywhere we're playing, the dimensions fit this box that I'm bringing, so it's this giant box that fits into every show. So no matter where I go, my fans get the same experience. So often you go into theaters and there's ambient light flying in from all sorts of places, and the audience is in different spots, and the stage is in different shapes and lengths and widths and depths, so this is a way for me to control all the light and all of the different elements of the show."[6]

The theme of the show is evolution.[10] According to Gaga, the songs on The Fame Monster represents the personal demons that she had faced. Hence while developing the record Gaga spoke about original sin and demons inside human beings. She said, "So we talked about growth, and that led us into this kind of scientific space, and we started talking about evolution and the evolution of humanity and how we begin as one thing, and we become another."[6] This theme of monsters and evolution is supposed to play a part in the fashion for the tour, which according to Gaga is "another level from where we were with the Fame Ball. [...] It's going to be a truly artistic experience that is going to take the form of the greatest post-apocalyptic house party that you've ever been to." Although Gaga stated that she was inspired by the things her and Kanye were doing with the Fame Kills tour, she concluded, "...I made a decision based on integrity not to use any of the things that we had designed together." Later, she agreed that it was "the great lost tour".[6] Emphasizing further on the theme of evolution, Gaga said:

"I begin as a cell and I grow and change throughout the show, [...] And it's also done in what now is becoming my aesthetic, which is, you know, it's part pop, part performance art, part fashion installation — so all of those things are present. [..] It's a story, it's me battling all my monsters along the way. I'm playing all the music from The Fame, all the music from The Fame Monster. And the stage that I designed with the Haus [of Gaga] is a giant cube that sits. Imagine you were to hollow out a TV and just break the fourth wall on a TV screen. It forces you to look at the center of the TV. It's my way of saying, 'My music is art.'"[11]

Concert synopsis

Gaga performs "Speechless" during the piano segment of The Monster Ball Tour.

The show started with a video of Gaga floating in water.[12] Then she appeared behind a giant, green, laser lit video screen featuring scrim lights, in a futuristic silver jewelled jumpsuit with bulbs on it,[13] with matching eye makeup and mask, singing the song "Dance in the Dark" from The Fame Monster, while dancers dressed in white balaclavas and white jumpsuits moved around her.[14][15] The scrim resembled an electric math grid which was lifted during the performance.[16] After the song she strapped on a portable silver jewelled keyboard and started performing "Just Dance" while inside a white cube from which she emerged from the top, and the video screen came up. She was raised on a platform with a keytar over her shoulder as eight dancers in white bodysuits locked into step below her.[14][15] This was followed by a brief video intermission and Gaga returned with an elaborate off-white costume that resembled an alien ecto-skeleton. She started performing "LoveGame" which ended with Gaga pointing towards her groins.[14][15] A digital background of flames was featured with the dancers wearing skeletal headgear.[12] As she got out of her ecto-skeleton outfit, she stripped down to a silver bodysuit for another The Fame Monster song, "Alejandro", which saw her being carried by her crotch by one of her male dancers and lowered onto another male dancer.[14]

Gaga performing "Money Honey" on the tour.

The section was followed by a video interlude featuring snarling dogs and brooding ravens.[17] The performance of "Monster" began with Gaga emerging in a black feathered jacket and performing dance moves reminiscent of Michael Jackson. The backdrop featured a black bird's wings.[16] It continued with two songs from The Fame Monster: "So Happy I Could Die" and "Teeth", where she removed the feathered dress. She then started performing the song "Speechless" and continued at the piano with the acoustic version of "Poker Face"; she played the piano while balancing on her piano stool and holding one leg up in the air.[14] Rapper Kid Cudi joined her then to perform his song "Make Her Say" which contains a sample of "Poker Face". This segment was followed by the performance of "Fashion" and "The Fame", during these performances Gaga wore a gold Egyptian styled crown and matching body suit.[14] The dress was compared to the garment of a viking.[18] Gaga crawled atop her piano during the follow-up songs "The Fame" and "Money Honey".[15] Upholstered in black vinyl and nearly nude in a red patent leather bikini, she followed "Money Honey" with "Boys Boys Boys," backed by a squadron of skinny, shirtless, snake-hipped leather boys.[19] Bondage inspired black leather dress with guns hanging from it and a hat made of muzzles,[20] were worn during "Poker Face" and Gaga pumped her hands in the air while performing the song.[15] This was followed by Gaga sitting on a dentist's chair and spreading her legs during "Paper Gangsta".[14] Another video interlude followed displaying arty poses of Gaga in gothic looks.[16]

She returned on the stage while wearing multiple donned braided extensions for "Paparazzi". Gaga was perched atop a railing and from each of her braids, a dancer was attached on the stage. A backdrop of stars were shown during the performance. For this performance, Gaga had collaborated with her Haus of Gaga creative partner Matthew "Matty Dada" Williams. She commented,

"I had a different vision for it in the beginning. Dada thought it should be braided, and I said, 'I never wear my hair braided.' He said, 'I know, but it's so Rapunzel, and it's something people deeply understand. And when you're wearing sunglasses on a scaffolding piece with a giant alien dancing behind you, I promise you it's not going to look like Rapunzel.'"[21]

The performance ended with Gaga faking her death. This was followed by "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) which signified her rebirth as she descended from the top amidst white lights and mechanical fog.[17] She wore a giant human sized gyroscope around her, which was developed by the Haus of Gaga and was named "The Orbit".[20] The last song of the show was "Bad Romance" which she performed in an '80s-inspired white power suit with exaggerated high shoulders and highwaisted pants.[14] The show ended with a video of Gaga getting a heart-shaped tattoo on her shoulder with the word "Dad" in the center of it.[16]

Reception

Gaga performing "Paper Gangsta" while tying her dancers to a chair.

Jane Stevenson from Toronto Sun gave the concert four out of five stars and said that "Lady Gaga came across as a confident, colourful, and campy performer. [...] Gaga's success was evident with slick-looking videos, lights, elaborate costumes, dancers, and yes, a band, even if her stage was sometimes left dark as she left to make numerous changes."[14] T'Cha Dunlevy for The Gazette noted that the performance was lacking ("The elements are there but they haven't all been brought together"), adding that the show never reached its peak until the end, when Gaga performed the "real rendition" of "Poker Face" and "Bad Romance." "Better late than never," Dunlevy concluded.[15] Aedan Helmer from Jam! magazine said that "At first blush, it might seem the real driving force behind Gaga's meteoric rise to fame is her hand-picked cadre of costume and set designers – dubbed Haus of Gaga – who seemingly know no bounds when it comes to pushing the envelope of haute couture and the theatre of the absurd. [...] But what really sets Gaga apart from the middling masses of lip-synching Britney clones and Idol wannabes is her pure, unadulterated musical talent. [...] The Lady can sing."[22] Theatre critic Kelly Nestruck, while writing for The Guardian said "While The Monster Ball has nothing on the great operas or the golden age of musical theatre, Lady Gaga's "electro-pop opera" is at least twice as entertaining and infinitely fresher than any stage musical written over the last decade."[20] Lauren Carter from Boston Herald praised the show saying "[Gaga] only has two albums under her belt (maybe closer to one-and-a-half) but who cares? Every song feels like a hit, and Gaga-as-star is already taking on Madonna-like proportions. [...] After [the show] at the Wang Theater, fans could justifiably walk away thinking Lady Gaga is crazy, brilliant or both."[12] Jeremy Adams from Rolling Stone reviewed the performance at Wang Center in Boston and said that "Throughout the evening, Gaga [..] aimed for a kind of pop theatricality that might potentially cement her burgeoning status as performance artist."[16]

Sam Adams from The Philadelphia Inquirer felt that "Gaga seemed isolated on stage, and oddly tentative, as if not quite ready to assume stardom as her right rather than a privilege contingent on each passing instant. [...] Her two-hour set was full of dead spots and long breaks for costume and scenery changes that sapped the show's momentum and disrupted its groove."[23] Chris Johnson from Daily Mail complimented the costumes worn in the tour.[18] Aidin Vaziri of San Francisco Chronicle said that "During her 90-minute performance - not so much a live concert as a meticulously choreographed spectacle - Lady Gaga also evoked Kanye West with the futuristic set, Britney Spears in her heavy-lidded stage movements, Courtney Love with her interminable between-song monologues highlighted by four-letter squelches and - who else? - Madonna for, oh, just about everything else."[24] Jim Harrington from San Jose Mercury News felt that the show would have been better technically if around thirty minutes were lessened from it. However, he compared Gaga's vocal abilities and performance with that of Madonna and complimented her "undeniable star power and pure attitude. She doesn't concern herself with what you think of her R-rated maneuvers, or basically anything else, and she'll tell you that straight to your face."[13] James Montogomery from MTV reviewed the concert at San Diego and said that "[Gaga] powered through and turned the San Diego Sports Arena into a raucous, delightfully raw discotheque."[17] Joe Brown from Las Vegas Sun said that "Lady Gaga out-Cher-ed Cher, made Cirque du Soleil and Britney's 'Circus tour' look like county fair carnivals, and made New Year's Eve in Las Vegas anticlimactic.[19]

Opening acts

Set list

A blond woman in white pants and black bustier stands inside a number of metallic circular rings. She holds a microphone to her mouth with her left hand and her right hand makes a claw like gesture. The woman is flanked by men and women in white dress and fierce expressions with their eyes being white in color.
Gaga, surrounded by her dancers, performing the final song "Bad Romance" while standing inside a gyroscope.
  1. "Dance In the Dark"
  2. "Just Dance"
  3. "LoveGame"
  4. "Alejandro"
  5. "Monster"
  6. "So Happy I Could Die"
  7. "Teeth"
  8. "Speechless"
  9. "Poker Face" (Piano Version)
  10. "Fashion"
  11. "The Fame"
  12. "Money Honey"
  13. "Boys, Boys, Boys"
  14. "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich"
  15. "Paper Gangsta"
  16. "Poker Face"
  17. "Paparazzi"
  18. "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)"
  19. "Bad Romance"

Tour dates

Date City Country Venue
North America[5][26][27][28]
November 27, 2009 Montreal Canada Bell Centre
November 28, 2009 Toronto Air Canada Centre
November 29, 2009 Ottawa Scotiabank Place
December 1, 2009 Boston United States Wang Center
December 2, 2009
December 3, 2009 Camden Susquehanna Bank Center
December 9, 2009 Vancouver Canada Queen Elizabeth Theatre
December 10, 2009
December 11, 2009
December 13, 2009 San Francisco United States Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
December 14, 2009
December 17, 2009 Las Vegas Pearl Concert Theater
December 18, 2009
December 19, 2009 San Diego Sports Arena
December 21, 2009 Los Angeles Nokia Theatre
December 22, 2009
December 23, 2009
December 27, 2009 New Orleans UNO Lakefront Arena
December 28, 2009 Atlanta Fox Theatre
December 29, 2009
December 31, 2009 Miami James L. Knight Center
January 2, 2010
January 3, 2010 Orlando Hard Rock Cafe
January 7, 2010 St. Louis Fox Theatre
January 8, 2010 Chicago Chicago Theatre
January 9, 2010
January 10, 2010
January 12, 2010 Detroit Fox Theatre
January 13, 2010
January 14, 2010 West Lafayette Edward C. Elliott Hall of Music
January 16, 2010 Atlantic City Borgata Event Center
January 17, 2010 Wallingford Oakdale Theatre
January 18, 2010 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena
January 20, 2010 New York City Radio City Music Hall
January 21, 2010
January 23, 2010
January 24, 2010
Europe[29]
February 18, 2010 Manchester United Kingdom Manchester Evening News Arena
February 20, 2010 Dublin Ireland The O2
February 21, 2010
February 22, 2010 Belfast United Kingdom Odyssey Arena
February 24, 2010 Liverpool Echo Arena
February 26, 2010 London The O2 Arena
February 27, 2010
March 1, 2010 Glasgow SECC
March 3, 2010 Cardiff Cardiff International Arena
March 4, 2010 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
March 5, 2010 Birmingham LG Arena
March 7, 2010 Sheffield Sheffield Arena
March 8, 2010 Nottingham Trent FM Arena
Oceania[30][31][32][33]
March 13, 2010 Auckland New Zealand Vector Arena
March 14, 2010
March 17, 2010 Sydney Australia Sydney Entertainment Centre[34]
March 18, 2010
March 22, 2010 Canberra AIS Arena
March 23, 2010 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena
March 24, 2010
March 26, 2010 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre
March 30, 2010 Adelaide Adelaide Entertainment Centre
April 1, 2010 Perth Challenge Stadium
April 2, 2010
Asia[35]
April 15, 2010 Kobe Japan World Memorial Hall
April 18, 2010 Yokohama Yokohama Arena
Europe[36][37]
May 17, 2010 Berlin Germany O2 World
May 19, 2010 Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
June 15, 2010 Istanbul Turkey Turkcell Kuruçeşme Arena*
  • = Istanbul concert appeared on Lady Gaga's official website, but it dissapeared back. The concert is not officially anounced yet.

Box office score data

Venue City Tickets Sold / Available Gross Revenue
Bell Centre Montreal 12,013 / 12,832 (93.6%) $564,821[38]
Total 12,013 / 12,832 (93.6%) $564,821

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