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| The Dream Within A Dream
Tour |  Dream Within A Dream Tour
Dates : 1 November 2001 -
21 December 2001 and 24 May 2002 - 28 July 2002
Shows :
66
Opening Acts : O-Town, P. Diddy, Nikka Costa, Luis
Fonsi
 The Dream Within a Dream Tour was Britney Spears'
fourth full-fledged, and second world, concert tour. Beginning in Columbus, Ohio
on November 1, 2001 and ending July 28, 2002 during a conterversial concert in
Mexico City, the tour grossed over $43.7 million in the U.S.
The show was
more elaborate and theatrical than her previous efforts. It featured a
key-shaped stage that allowed easy view from all around the audience, various
platforms including one that would circle Spears around part of the audience and
a huge rain screen which poured more than 500 gallons of water. Ironically, her
very last show in Mexico City was cancelled due to heavy rain and thunderstorms.
The audience was heard booing Britney as she exited the stage.
Her Las
Vegas performance was taped for a special which aired on HBO. The DVD titled
Live from Las Vegas was later released thereform.
The tour won an Emmy
Award in 2002.
 The original October 26 opening in Miami was
postponed when Britney came down with the flu two weeks before the tour was to
kick off, thus postponing rehearsals. The tour was scheduled to begin on October
31 in Washington, DC but that date was also postponed so more technical
rehearsals could take place.
During Britney's second sold-out night at
Mexico City's outdoor Foro Sol Arena on July 28, 2002, severe thunderstorms hit
the city, causing Britney to abruptly cancel the show halfway through the
setlist, angering her fans. Spears left the country that night with no comments
or explanations. Spears reported during an interview that the stage was struck
by lightning while performing and the dancers almost fell off the catwalk from
the rain making the stage slippery. Luckily, no one was hurt.
During a
show in Lubbock, Texas at the United Spirit Arena, the show suffered a complete
power outage of the arena after the s econd song, causing the remainder of the show to be
cancelled.
While performing the encore at the Tokyo Dome, Spears slipped
and fell on the wet stage. Footage of it was captured and has been widely
circulated on the internet.
During the show in North Little Rock at the
Alltel Arena, Spears wore a black short haired wig throughout the whole
show.
Because the show featured so many technical special effects, minor
problems often occurred (examples: music box and flying barge).
During
the live TV broadcasting of Live from Las Vegas on HBO, Spears tripped over her
dancer during "What It's Like To Be Me." When the DVD released, they replaced
the shot with a live shot of the audience.
 The show began with a woman dressed in a nightgown and carrying a
lantern wandering onto the stage declaring that she is in a dream within a dream
before being sucked under the stage amongst flames. After a video guided by the
dream fairy, Britney's guitarist emerges from underneath the 2nd stage and rips
into a roaring, rock version (from the 2000 MTV VMAs) of "Oops!...I Did It
Again". Britney appears strapped onto a platform that spins her at a 360 degree
turn. The elaborate show continues with multiple costume and set changes.
At one point, Britney emerges from a music box dresses as a ballerina
singing "Born To Make You Happy". She then loses the tutu and becomes a
Hollywood star for "Lucky" before going into "Sometimes".
A more personal
moment came on the second leg of the tour when Britney sat by her piano player
and discussed her life. She then sung short songs accompanied by her piano
player that she recently wrote. At most shows, she sung a jazzy song called
"Mystic Man" (debuted in Oakland, CA) which uses a line from NSYNC's "Gone". At
other shows, she sung "Weakness" (sung in Las Vegas and first couple US shows),
"My Love Was Always There" (sung in Uniondale, NY and Florida), and "You Were My
Home" (sung in Mexico City along with Mystic Man), all of which she debuted at
various shows on the tour.
 During the show, Britney flew over the audience on "the Barge", a
flying platform ("I Love Rock 'N' Roll" & "Baby One More Time" (Remix)),
bungee jumped, had a dance-off with herself on a video screen (Lonely), made fun
in a Crayola world ("Anticipating"), and cavorted in a jungle ("I'm a Slave 4
U").
The encore begins with a rain curtain falling over the stage and a
large hologram of Britney projected on it, getting smaller and smaller until the
real Britney emerges in the middle of the rain and walks right through it. She
sings a remix of Baby One More Time that starts off as a ballad before it speeds
up. Britney and her dancers fly over the audience one last time before Britney
is lowered to the stage and descends through a trap door, just giving a smile
and a wave to the audience.
The November 18, 2001 Las Vegas, Nevada show
was taped for a special that aired on HBO and was later released to DVD. The
live HBO special attracted over five million viewers.
 01. Video Introduction: Dream Fairy's Moment
of Dreams
02. Oops!...I Did It Again
03. (You Drive Me) Crazy
04.
Dancer's Interlude
05. Overprotected
06. Story Interlude: "The Ballerina
Princess and her Music Box"...The Story Begins
07. Medley Born To Make You
Happy/Lucky/Sometimes
08. Story Interlude: "The Ballerina Princess and her
Music Box"...The Story Ends
09. Boys
10. Stronger
11. Mystic
Man
12. I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman
13. Video Interlude: Britney's
Rock 'n' Roll Band
14. I Love Rock 'n' Roll
15. What It's Like To Be
Me
16. Lonely
17. Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know
18. Video Interlude:
Britney's Crayola World
19. Anticipating
20. I'm A Slave 4u
21. ...Baby
One More Time
 Live from Las Vegas is the fourth DVD collection
from pop music singer Britney Spears, released on January 22, 2002. Recorded
during Spears' 2001-2002 tour Dream Within a Dream Tour at MGM Grand Garden
Arena in a special Las Vegas concert originally broadcast on HBO, Spears
performed 14 songs in between dance routines and costume changes.
The DVD
debuted at #1 (#1 for 6 weeks) in the US and was certified 2x platinum. In
France, the DVD was certified platinum also.
There were two nights of
concert in Las Vegas, Only the 2nd. night was shot to be on the DVD + Live on
HBO.
The DVD include three bonus music videos, "I'm A Slave 4u",
"Overprotected" and "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman", Some DVDs also includes
trailer for movie "Crossroads".
U.S.A. Tour :
Date -
City, State
November 1, 2001 - Columbus, Ohio
November 2, 2001 -
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
November 7, 2001 - Uniondale, New York
November
8, 2001 - University Park, Pennsylvania
November 9, 2001 - Cleveland,
Ohio
November 10, 2001 - Cincinnati, Ohio
November 12, 2001 - Denver,
Colorado
November 13, 2001 - Salt Lake City, Utah
November 17, 2001 - Las
Vegas, Nevada
November 18, 2001 - Las Vegas, Nevada
November 20, 2001 -
Anaheim, California
November 21, 2001 - Los Angeles, California
November
26, 2001 - Auburn Hills, Michigan
November 27, 2001 - Milwaukee,
Winconsin
November 28, 2001 - Rosemont, Illinois
November 29, 2001 -
Minneapolis, Minnesota
December 1, 2001 - Atlantic City, New
Jersey
December 3, 2001 - Albany, New York
December 5, 2001 - New York
City, New York
December 8, 2001 - Hartford, Connecticut
December 9, 2001 -
Boston, Massachusetts
December 10, 2001 - Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
December 11, 2001 - Boston, Massachusetts
December 14, 2001 -
Raleigh, North Carolina
December 15, 2001 - Atlanta, Georgia
December 16,
2001 - New Orleans, Louisiana
December 18, 2001 - Tampa, Florida
December
19, 2001 - Miami, Florida
December 21, 2001 - Washington, District of
Columbia
May 24, 2002 - Las Vegas, Nevada
May 25, 2002 - Las Vegas,
Nevada
May 29, 2002 - Tacoma, Washington
May 30, 2002 - Portland,
Oregon
June 1, 2002 - Oakland, California
June 2, 2002 - San Jose,
California
June 4, 2002 - Los Angeles, California
June 5, 2002 - San
Diego, California
June 6, 2002 - Los Angeles, California
June 10, 2002 -
Sacramento, California
June 12, 2002 - Phoenix, Arizona
June 14, 2002 -
Lubbock, Texas
June 15, 2002 - San Antonio, Texas
June 16, 2002 - Houston,
Texas
June 20, 2002 - Chicago, Illinois
June 21, 2002 - Indianopolis,
Indiana
June 22, 2002 - St. Louis, Missouri
June 24, 2002 - Auburn Hills,
Michigan
June 26, 2002 - Buffalo, New York
June 28, 2002 - Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
June 29, 2002 - Boston, Massachusetts
June 30, 2002 -
Worcester, Massachusetts
July 5, 2002 - Atlantic City, New Jersey
July 6,
2002 - East Rutherford, New Jersey
July 9, 2002 - Uniondale, New York
July
10, 2002 - Washington, District of Columbia
July 11, 2002 - Charlotte, North
Carolina
July 13, 2002 - Sunrise, Florida
July 14, 2002 - Orlando,
Florida
July 18, 2002 - Bossier City, Louisiana
July 19, 2002 - Oaklahoma
City, Oaklahoma
July 20, 2002 - North Little Rock, Arkansas
July 22, 2002
- Dallas, Texas
Canada Tour :
Date - City,
State
November 5, 2001 - Toronto, Ontario
May 28, 2002 - Vancouver,
British Columbia
June 25, 2002 - Hamilton, Ontario
Asian Tour
:
Date - City, Country
April 25, 2002 - Tokyo,
Japan
Latin America Tour :
Date - City,
Country
July 27, 2002 - Mexico City, Mexico
July 28, 2002 - Mexico City,
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