Cher at the Colosseum

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Cher at the Colosseum

Cher at the Colosseum marks Cher's return to the stage. The show includes fourteen dancers and four aerialists, with seventeen costume changes by Bob Mackie. Many fans believe that this is her most spectacular show to date.^[1][2]

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1. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
   
2. Song for the Lonely*
   
3. I Gotta Be Me (as Laverne)
   
4. All Or Nothing**
   
5. I Found Someone**
   
6. Love is a Battlefield
   
7. The Beat Goes On
   
8. All I Really Want To Do
   
9. Half-Breed
   
10. Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves
    
11. Dark Lady
    
12. The Way of Love
    
13. Don't Leave Me This Way
    
14. Take Me Home
    
15. Love Hurts***
    
16. After All
    
17. Walking In Memphis
    
18. Strong Enough
    
19. If I Could Turn Back Time
    
20. Believe
    

*Sung for the first week of shows
**Sung for the first couple of weeks
***Sung only on the first night

[edit] Costumes

Legendary designer Bob Mackie created 17 unique ensembles for Cher at the Colosseum.

• For I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and Song for the Lonely she wears a gold feathered cape (resembling a bird) and a crown with an asp. The cape and front hanging piece between the legs is removed to reveal a much skimpier gold sequined outfit.

• For her Laverne monologue she wears a leopard skinned dress/jump suit and coat with purple, green, and pink horizontal stripes. She has her typical Laverne red curly wig, tacky jewelry, and purple pointed glasses.

• For All or Nothing and I Found Someone she wears a sultan themed outfit. It has long gold tassels that hang from the arms and crotch. A giant curly red wig and a forehead crown.

• For Love Is a Battlefield she wears a horned headdress with thigh length boots, cape, and leather gloves. She adorns a big apricot with black tips wig.

• For The Beat Goes On and All I Really Want to Do she wears a red mini dress with matching boots and earrings with black and white fur/feather coat. She has a 60s styled long black wig.

• For Half-Breed she wears a Native American headdress over her trade mark long straight black hair with loin cloth and jewels.

• For Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves and Dark Lady she wears a purple/yellow/green gypsy styled outfit with matching headdress.

• For Don't Leave Me This Way she wears a teal feathered coat with hat wrapping all over her body with lights flashing on it.

• For Take Me Home she wears a blue sequined disco outfit with matching sequined wig. The same costume as the Live in Montecarlo concert, Do You Believe? Tour and Living Proof: The Farewell Tour, only in teal blue.

• For The Way of Love and Love Hurts she wears a midnight blue dress with sequined floral design all along her right side along with a flower themed headdress.

• For After All she wears an Ice Queen light purple/blue fur coat with sequined designs all along the sides and pointed hat.

• For Walking In Memphis she wears an outfit similar to the Living Proof: The Farewell Tour wearing jeweled jeans with hippie designs, a short blond curly wig, turquoise jewelry, and a green/blue peasant girl styled blouse.

• For The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) she wears a mini black dress with flared open sleeves, pointed shoulder pads, and pink and greens floral jeweled designs. She wears a pink wig, bangs in front and curly pig-tails on the side.

• For Strong Enough and If I Could Turn Back Time she wears her classic ripped leather and fishnet black body suit with thong, knee high leather boots and leather jacket which she wears for Strong Enough. Of course she wears her classic giant frizzy and curly black wig.

• For Believe she wears a silver and white costume resembling a goddess with feathers and jewels. She has what resembles wings that hand down from both arms and a platinum blond/white wig that has bangs in the front and bumps up on top her head and is long in the back with a goddess crown.

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