Rainbow World Tour

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Rainbow World Tour

Tour by Mariah Carey
Start date	February 14, 2000
End date	April 11, 2000
Legs	3
Shows	6 in Europe 4 in Asia 9 in North America 19 in Total
Mariah Carey tour chronology
Butterfly World Tour (1998)	Rainbow World Tour (2000)	Charmbracelet World Tour (2003-2004)

The Rainbow World Tour was a worldwide arena concert tour in the year 2000 by American pop/R&B artist Mariah Carey.

1 History
2 The Show
3 Set list
4 Band
5 Tour dates
6 References
7 External links

[edit] History

Carey had released her ninth album Rainbow in November 1999 and decided to go on tour to promote it. Unlike her previous outing, the Butterfly World Tour, Carey visited more European countries as well as a return to North America for the first time since her 1993 Music Box Tour garnered a flurry of bad initial reviews. Carey also visited Singapore for the first time.

The tour grossed $7 million from the North American dates alone, according to Billboard. Critical reaction was mixed at best, especially in the United States. A lot of people reproached her of having a tired and hoarse voice during this tour.^{[citation needed]} Of the debut American performance at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Variety said: "Mariah Carey's show begs for either simplicity or coherency."^[1] Of the United Center performance, and reflecting that this was the first time Mariah was scantily clad touring, The Chicago Sun-Times said that Carey had "been transformed from a wannabe Whitney to a wannabe Britney," and called her approach to concert performance "difficult to fathom." ^[2]

The final three dates of the tour were pushed back a bit (Boston from April 4 to April 13, for example) after Carey got food poisoning from eating raw oysters after the concert in Atlanta.^[3]

[edit] The Show

During this tour, Mariah debuted new songs from the Rainbow album such as: "Can't Take That Away", " Heartbreaker", "After Tonight", "Bliss", "Petals", "Thank God I Found You" and much more, including some of her biggest pop hits.

Once again, longtime friend Trey Lorenz was featured as a backup singer for Mariah.

[edit] Set list

"Rainbow" / "Petals" (Intro)
"Emotions"
"My All"
"Dreamlover"
"X-Girlfriend"
"Vulnerability (Interlude)"
"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
"Without You" (Europe only, except Madrid)
"Make It Happen" (Europe only, except Madrid)
"Thank God I Found You"
"Make You Happy" (Trey Lorenz)
"Fantasy (Remix)"
"Always Be My Baby" / Band introduction
"Crybaby"
"Close My Eyes"
"Petals"
"Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)"
"Heartbreaker"
"Honey"
"Vision of Love"
"Rainbow (Interlude)"
"Hero"
"Butterfly" (Outro)
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" (Japan only)

Other songs performed on tour:

"I Still Believe" / "Pure Imagination" (Singapore and Los Angeles)

"Sweetheart" (Antwerp)

[edit] Band

Vernon Black, Eric Daniels (keyboards), Sam Simms, Gregory Gonaway, Marco Oliveria, Michael McKnight, Trey Lorenz (backing and featured vocals), Melonia Daniels, Lloyd Smith, MaryAnn Tatum (backing vocals), Tracy Harris.

[edit] Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue
Europe
February 14	Antwerp	Belgium	Sportpaleis
February 17	Milan	Italy	Fila Forum
February 20	Koln	Germany	Kölnarena
February 23	Paris	France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
February 26	London	England	Wembley Arena
February 29	Madrid	Spain	Palacio de Deportes
Japan
Date	City	Country	Venue
March 4	Osaka	Japan	Osaka Dome
March 7	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
March 9	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
March 13	Singapore	Singapore	Singapore National Stadium
North America
Date	City	Country	Venue
March 16	Los Angeles	United States	Staples Center
March 18	Las Vegas	United States	Thomas & Mack Center
March 21	San Jose	United States	San Jose Arena
March 25	Chicago	United States	United Center
March 29	Miami	United States	American Airlines Arena
April 1	Atlanta	United States	Philips Arena
April 11	New York	United States	Madison Square Garden
April 13	Boston	United States	Fleet Center
April 18	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre