The Beyoncé Experience
Tour by Beyoncé | |
Location |
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Associated album | B'Day |
Start date | April 10, 2007 |
End date | November 12, 2007 |
Legs | 5 |
No. of shows | 96 |
Beyoncé concert chronology |
The Beyoncé Experience was the third
Rehearsals for the tour began in March 2007 and the performances featured music performed by an all-female band called Suga Mama chosen by Beyoncé Knowles and her father Mathew Knowles during auditions held before the release of B'Day. The set list of the concerts included songs from B'Day, Dangerously in Love, ten shortened versions of Destiny's Child's songs as well as "Listen", originally recorded by Knowles for the soundtrack of Dreamgirls (2006). Ten instrumentalists, three harmony vocalists and ten dancers backed Knowles onstage which also had disco balls hanging from the ceilings and color-changing stairs. For the wardrobe of the tour, Knowles collaborated with several designers; it consisted of silvery and sparkly dresses which received praise from critics.
The tour received positive reviews from
Background
Prior to the commencement of The Beyoncé Experience in support of her second solo studio album
Knowles teamed with
Development
Early before the release of B'Day in 2006, Knowles held a nationwide audition for female musicians which ended in Sony Music Studios where she and her father and collaborator Mathew Knowles were among the judges. The auditions searched for keyboard players, bassists, guitarists, horn players, percussionists and drummers with stops in New Jersey, Atlanta, Burbank, Chicago and Houston. The musicians were asked to re-create the performance of "Work It Out" from the live album Live at Wembley (2004) and be able to perform at least a one-minute solo.[11] Knowles stated that her goal was to get together a group of "fierce, talented, hungry, beautiful" women and form an all-female band.[12] Speaking about her tour and the decision to form a band, Knowles said, "I'm all about female empowerment. I'm all about pushing the envelope. I know it's my responsibility to do something different. I said, 'I want a band, I want something different.'"[12] She further described the process of choosing the contestants during an interview, saying: "I had worldwide auditions; people flew in from Atlanta, Houston, Israel, all over the world. It was extremely difficult [choosing the winners]. [There are] so many talented women. I wanted only a nine-piece band, but the girls were so amazing, I couldn't decide. I think I'm going to wind up having 12 people so I have two [people playing] certain instruments, because [some of the contenders] were just brilliant. It's a thing called star quality, it's a thing you can't put your finger on, can't describe. When they were playing, I said, 'I want to see y'all battle.' I brought in two of every instrument and that's how I chose. You see the one that really wants it. It was so entertaining, the energy, seeing the girls battle ... God, it was the best. It was magical."[12] Between segments of the show, Suga Mama performed periodic instrumental interludes, with every member giving a solo so Knowles could change her costumes seven times.[13][14][15] Describing them as "fantastic", Eamon Sweeney of the Irish Independent noted that "the interval music works perfectly... but two excruciating drum solos are absolutely unnecessary".[16]
Rehearsals for the tour began in March 2007. The
Costume design
Beyoncé's mother and designer
Concert synopsis
The show included many references such as to James Brown and Donna Summer[20] as well as routines inspired by Sweet Charity[13] and Marilyn Monroe.[22] It opened in darkness, with Knowles emerging through a hole in the stage amidst smoke, sparkles and pyrotechnics to perform "Crazy in Love" with a snippet of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" in a sparkling silver gown and walking to the front of the stage,[15][17][27] as fifteen disco balls hung from the ceiling.[17] Her background band started playing the music to the funk song[20] and while singing, Knowles walked up a huge staircase which moved forward in two places where her all-female band and three backup singers were positioned. At the top of the staircase/mini-stage, she tore off the bottom of her dress and walked back down to the main stage.[15] Her three backup singers came down as well and did the "uh-oh" dance from the song with her.[15]
During "
The intro to "Ring the Alarm" paid homage to the "Cell Block Tango" from the film Chicago, as women told of how they had been hurt by men and the performance saw Knowles wearing a red overcoat.[19][22][23] During "Suga Mama", Knowles performed a pole dance.[17] Afterwards Knowles' duets with Jay-Z, "Upgrade U" and "'03 Bonnie & Clyde", were performed. During "Get Me Bodied" she removed the robot costume she was previously sporting to reveal a black and yellow dress to emulate a bee, and further led the crowd in a dance routine.[15][17] "Check on It" was preceded by an instrumental of "The Pink Panther Theme", during which the stairs were colored pink.[14] A Dreamgirls segment was performed, incorporating the title song and "Listen" from the 2006 musical film in which Knowles starred in.[13] The final song on the tour's set list was "Irreplaceable"; it began with the audience singing the first verse to Knowles after she announced "I've been singing my heart out for over two hours. Now it's time for you to sing for me."[14][15] Knowles asked from the crowd to sing along her during the song while video clips of the backing musicians showed them making the "to the left" motion which was a key part of the song. Confetti were also dropped on the stage.[19] As the concert ended, Knowles was walking on the stage and pointing to individual fans saying "I see you!" and describing their clothes or the signs they held.[20]
Critical reception
"As notable as the supporting cast was, it rarely drew attention away from the star. The show is called 'The Beyonce Experience,' and it lived up to its name, with Beyonce leaving no doubt of her all-around talent. She can sing with the power of a Tina Turner, dance with the military precision of a Janet Jackson, and dress with the over-the-top flair of a Cher. More than just a concert, it's a state-of-the-art arena spectacle – the best that 2007 has offered, so far."
-Anthony Venutolo of The Star-Ledger in his review of the tour[19]
The New York Times' Jon Pareles wrote, "She's the woman with everything: the voice, the moves, the songs, the ideas and the clothes. Her two-hour set was a brilliant pop extravaganza that kept the songs at its center."[20] He further noted that Knowles didn't need distractions from her singing, "which can be airy or brassy, tearful or vicious, rapid-fire with staccato syllables or sustained in curlicued melismas. But she was in constant motion".[20] Lee Hildebrand of the San Francisco Chronicle gave a very positive review for the concert and noted that Knowles performed "two fast-paced hours of terrific singing, solid musicianship, spectacular staging and some of the most imaginative choreography ever to have graced the stage of Oracle Arena."[14] Hildebrand further noted that Knowles used "occasional bits of rasp to her ringing mezzo tones to emphasize key lines" while performing the ballads. He wrote that every "twitch, turn, slide and hip shake was in perfect sync" and praised the singer's constant motion most of the time which never left her "out of breath".[14] While reviewing Knowles' concert in Bangkok, Thailand, Lisnaree Vichitsorasatra of The Nation praised her dancing which included "shaking, bouncing and belly dancing, mixed with hip-hop" further comparing it with Shakira's.[23] She further noted that the highlight of the show was when Knowles sang the slow-tempo ballads.[23] The Courier Mail's Tonya Turner praised Knowles' "passionate and fiery" performance accompanied by "frantic booty popping and sexy R&B moves".[26] Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Ann Powers noted that the tour was one of the "modern superstar spectacles that casts the artist's reality onto the level of myth". However, she noted, that "Beyoncé's 'Experience' plays off the performer's well-known struggles and triumphs to build a story that will make fans both gawk and relate. The maddening thing about this dazzling entertainment, though, is that the tale it tells is partly the wrong one."[24] She concluded the review by saying, "Beyoncé is electric in concert yet reined in by her show's post-feminist theme. Why not just let it be about her musical prowess?".[24] Jim Farber of the New York Daily News praised Knowles' energy and powerful performance on stage, writing "With her triumphant gait, statuesque figure and steely stare, the singer seemed primed not just to perform but to vanquish... Beyoncé sang with a fiery determination, stressing cries and shouts that had no use for subtlety and even less for vulnerability. She danced at an equally mad clip... hitting every mark with a vengeance... A Beyoncé show... has everything to do with power and nothing to do with nuance. It's the kind of thing meant to inspire awe, not intimacy... She sang her songs last night with the force of a rapper, stressing pieces from her two solo albums in a way that made every sound seem percussive."[33] However, Farber criticized the unsure repertoire of songs performed, writing "Many of her tunes prove too skittish to sink in, and some of her rhythms are too robotic to find a groove."[33] Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter noted that the snippets of other artists that Knowles included in her own songs were refreshing and included the fast-paced Destiny's Child medley and the performances of "Get Me Bodied" and "Listen" as highlights of the show. He further noted,
"It's not for nothing that they call this show 'The Beyonce Experience.' Like the summer blockbuster movies crowding theater screens, this tour by the pop/R&B icon resembles not so much a concert as a series of thrillingly staged set pieces. It's safe to say that her fans will not be disappointed by the two-hour extravaganza. From the diva-style opening, when she rises from beneath the stage amidst a blinding sparkler display, to the final audience sing-along on the female-empowering hit 'Irreplaceable,' the star delivers a crowd-pleasing spectacle that offers as much visual as musical stimulation."[13]
Commercial performance
In October 2009, when Knowles was chosen for the Woman of the Year Award presented by Billboard magazine, a partial gross of the tour was revealed. Between April 21 and September 8, 2007 it was reported to the magazine that The Beyoncé Experience grossed $24.9 million and 272,521 fans attended the twenty nine shows which were submitted to the boxscore at that time.[34] The highest-grossing concert of the tour was at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York with $2,744,345.[35] The concert that garnered the most number of attendees was at Fort Bonifacio in Taguig, Philippines on November 7, 2007 with total of 70,000 people in attendance.[36]
Incidents and cancelled shows
On July 8, 2007, during the concert in St. Louis, two people in the audience suffered burns after pyrotechnics, meant for the stage effects, tumbled into the audience; Knowles visited them in the hospital after the show.[37] During the performance of "Ring the Alarm”, at the Orlando, Florida show on July 24, Knowles fell down a flight of stairs. Her heel got caught in the bottom of her long coat, and she tripped down the steps; she quickly picked herself up and carried on with the show. After the incident, Knowles jokingly asked the audience not to "post the footage on YouTube", although she knew they would; several clips were posted on the then-new video-sharing website, subsequently going viral. On July 26, YouTube removed many of the clips as they were in violation of copyright infringement. After an initial removal spree, clips of the incident reappeared on YouTube, and were uploaded to other content-sharing websites such as Dailymotion and eBaum's World.[38] A spokesperson for the singer said she was not injured during the fall, which she described as a "mere spot on an otherwise sensational, flawless show" adding, "Miss Knowles picked herself right up, without missing a beat, showing to all that she is the best."[39] When asked about the fall on CNN, Knowles said that she hit her head and chin and was "bruised-up".[40] She further noted that she immediately started thinking to get up and continue performing the show "harder" as "an athlete" due to the adrenaline rush she experienced. "Whenever I do something like that, I always perform really, really hard, cause it makes me a little mad at myself; so I just go crazy. So they got a really good show, in the end."[40] During her August 25 performance in Toronto, while performing "Déjà Vu", Knowles had a wardrobe malfunction when her dress flew over her head and was rumored to have revealed her breast. However, a spokesperson for the singer revealed that the speculations weren't true, because "She's wearing a flesh-tone bra! Do you really think Beyoncé would go on stage like that?" The video, which was uploaded to YouTube, went viral.[41] Powers of the Los Angeles Times discussed the incidents, saying, "As a pop queen, Beyoncé is almost too perfect. A tumble down the stairs onstage in Orlando and a subsequent 'wardrobe malfunction' in Toronto garnered far more attention than was warranted partly because these mistakes contradicted her fiercely athletic style."[24] Beyoncé's concert in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on October 20, 2007 was special as it was a part of the country's year-long celebration of its 2,000th year of independence (according to the Coptic calendar). After the final song of the two-hour set had been performed, Knowles gathered all of her dancers and band members on stage. The concert was finished off with the entire ensemble leading the crowd in jumping, singing and dancing to Teddy Afro's iconic New Year's anthem "Abebayehosh", which the audience was visibly thrilled over. At the end of the concert, Knowles stated "I want to thank you. You have been one of the best audiences of my lifetime."[42][43]
Knowles intended to take The Beyoncé Experience to
Broadcasting and recordings
The show on September 2 at the
Opening acts
- Chris Brown (Australia)[57]
- Lemar (Europe)[58]
- Katy Shotter (selected dates in the UK and the US)[58][59]
- Robin Thicke (selected dates in North America)[60][61]
- Sean Kingston (selected dates in North America)[25]
- Pekaso (Philippines)
- Ludacris (Ethiopia)[42]
Set list
The following set list is obtained from the September 2, 2007 show in Los Angeles. It is not intended to represent all dates throughout the tour.[4][62]
- "Crazy in Love" (contains elements of "Crazy")
- "Freakum Dress"
- "Green Light"
- "Baby Boy" (contains elements of "Murder She Wrote", "Lost Ones" and "Ring the Alarm")
- "Beautiful Liar"
- "Naughty Girl"
- "Me, Myself, and I"
- "He Loves Me (Lyzel In E Flat)")
- "Flaws and All"
- "Independent Women Part 1", "Bootylicious", "No, No, No (Part 2)", "Bug a Boo", "Bills, Bills, Bills", "Cater 2 U", "Say My Name", and "Jumpin', Jumpin'")
- "Soldier" (contains elements of "Crank That (Soulja Boy)")
- "Survivor"
- "Speechless"
- "Ring the Alarm"
- "Suga Mama"
- "Upgrade U"
- "'03 Bonnie & Clyde"
- "Check on It"
- "Déjà Vu"
- "Get Me Bodied"
- "Welcome To Hollywood" (intermission)
- "Deena"
- "Listen"
- Encore
- "Work It Out" was performed during performances in Japan and Australia instead of "Beautiful Liar".
- During European and Australian leg, and in Monterrey concert Déjà Vu was performed as the encore. Additionally, it was performed after "Check on It" during the North American leg.
- During the Madrid and Monterrey concerts, Knowles began the performance with the Spanish version of "Irreplaceable", titled "Irreemplazable".[56]
Tour dates
Date (2007) |
City | Country | Venue |
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April 10 | Tokyo | Japan | Tokyo Dome |
April 11 | Osaka | Osaka-Jo Hall | |
April 12 | |||
April 14 | Nagoya | Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium |
Date (2007) |
City | Country | Venue |
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April 21 | Sydney | Australia | Acer Arena
|
April 22 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | |
April 24 | Adelaide | Adelaide Entertainment Centre | |
April 25 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | |
April 26 | Sydney | Acer Arena
|
Date (2007) |
City | Country | Venue |
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October 17 | Moscow | Russia | Olimpiysky |
October 20 | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | Millennium Hall |
October 22 | Cluj-Napoca | Romania | Stadionul Ion Moina |
October 27 | Mumbai | India | MMRDA Grounds |
October 30 | Bangkok | Thailand | Impact Arena |
November 1 | Jakarta | Indonesia | JITEC |
November 3 | Macau | Venetian Arena | |
November 5 | Shanghai | China | Shanghai Indoor Stadium |
November 7 | Taguig | Philippines | Fort Bonifacio Open Field |
November 9 | Seoul | South Korea | Olympic Gymnastics Arena |
November 10 | |||
November 12 | Taipei | Taiwan | Zhongshan Soccer Stadium |
- Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
- A^ This show was part of the Essence Music Festival.[2]
Box office score data
Venue | City | Tickets sold / Available | Gross revenue |
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Acer Arena
|
Sydney | 13,476 / 13,476 (100%) | $1,230,623[35] |
Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Brisbane | 8,849 / 9,227 (96%) | $844,496[35] |
Continental Airlines Arena
|
East Rutherford | 10,923 / 15,704 (70%) | $1,177,040[35] |
Madison Square Garden | New York City | 26,109 / 26,109 (100%) | $2,744,345[35] |
Verizon Center
|
Washington, D.C. | 13,248 / 13,248 (100%) | $1,242,263[35] |
Wachovia Center | Philadelphia | 11,956 / 13,851 (86%) | $1,155,901[35] |
United Center | Chicago | 11,682 / 14,961 (78%) | $1,051,165[66] |
MGM Grand Garden Arena | Las Vegas | 10,171 / 10,171 (100%) | $1,251,970[35][66] |
Oracle Arena | Oakland | 9,882 / 13,404 (74%) | $905,642[66] |
Staples Center
|
Los Angeles | 11,664 / 13,797 (85%) | $1,301,488[66] |
Fort Bonifacio Open Field
|
Taguig | 70,000 / 70,000 (100%)[36] | — |
TOTAL | 119,111 / 134,721 (88%) | $12,060,437[34] |
Personnel
Personnel adapted as per The Beyoncé Experience booklet and The Beyoncé Experience Live DVD.[4][62]
The Mamas (Background Vocalists): |
Dancers
Crew
|
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