Taking Chances World Tour

Taking Chances World Tour

World tour by Celine Dion
Promotional poster for the tour
Location	Africa Asia Oceania Europe North America
Associated album	D'elles Taking Chances
Start date	14 February 2008 (2008-02-14)
End date	26 February 2009 (2009-02-26)
Legs	5
No. of shows	9 in Africa 10 in Asia 5 in Oceania 35 in Europe 72 in North America 131 total
Box office	US $279.2 million ($397.94 million in 2023 dollars)
Celine Dion concert chronology

The Taking Chances World Tour was the ninth concert tour by French Canadian singer Celine Dion, in-support of her thirteenth French-language and 22nd studio album, D'elles (2007), as well as her tenth English-language and 23rd studio album, Taking Chances (2007). The tour marked Dion’s return to performing on a global scale, after five successful years with her groundbreaking Las Vegas residency, A New Day.... It was also her first concert tour in nine years, following her Let's Talk About Love World Tour (1998/99).

Taking Chances was, indeed, an ambitious tour; kicking-off with nine shows across five cities in South Africa, the tour saw Dion performing for fans in Dubai, Tokyo, Osaka, Macau, Seoul, Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur before visiting five cities in Australia—with further planned shows in Beijing, New Zealand, Qatar and Turkey being canceled for various unforeseen reasons. The tour then visited cities across Europe for 2½ months before embarking on a full, six-month-long North American tour, including three stops in Mexico and a sold-out show in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Pollstar announced the tour’s total gross to be US$279.2 million, making it 2008-2009’s fourth highest-grossing tour by a solo artist, and one of the highest-grossing tours of the 2000s.

Background and development

Dion performing "Taking Chances" in Montreal

The show, directed by Jamie King (famously known for his work with Madonna), combined Dion's performances with color, fashion and dance. Dion performed some of her biggest hits, along with songs from her latest English album Taking Chances. The two-hour show was divided into four segments: soul, rock, Middle-Eastern and “fashion-victim”. Dion was supported by eight dancers, four male and four female. Rehearsals took place in December 2007 in Primm, Nevada and Las Vegas, at the MGM Grand.

The technical production included 20 LED screens—among them, one that orbited above the stage—plus catwalks for audience interaction, conveyor belts, elevators and ramps. Dion pre-recorded a selection of videos for her show. The introduction video showed her driving a car at high-speed, set to a remix of "I Drove All Night" as the beginning of her concert. There have been 2 versions of the introduction video: The first version showed footage of Dion's career, and was seen in all South Africa, Asia, Australia, and some European dates before the second version, which was footage from cities Dion visited during the tour. As the tour went on, the intro video shaped up and more cities ended up being added. Another video showed the singer dressed in varying fashions over the years, with the "My Heart Will Go On" remix in the background.

Jamie King joined the tour on 2 May 2008 in Manchester, England. Before that date, the show was not on a central stage (except in Japan and Osaka) for logistics reasons. After two and a half months, Dion rehearsed again to perfect the show for the "in the round" setup. Because of Dion's bilingual career and the restrictions of certain arenas and stadiums on the tour, King had to direct and choreograph three separate shows. One show featured a set-list mostly of English-language songs, and was performed in-the-round using the full system of mobile screens, elevators, and conveyor belts. The second show also featured the center stage arrangement, but included ten of her best-known French language songs for performances in Francophone countries. A third, less-complex show was then designed for venues where the center stage would not fit physically, or where it would be impractical to transport the stage. An end-stage setup was used in these cases (as they were mainly indoor arenas), featuring a massive central video screen, and a lighting system that engulfed the stage in brilliant blue and red on three sides. Before the European leg, the central- and end-stage shows were finalized and then reconfigured, again, changing lights and cues, in order for the three separate shows to fit in these two stages. Dion premiered new costumes when the European tour began.

Dion's "in the round" staging used for arenas in Europe and North America

Dion and her band rehearsed about 60 tracks, both in English and French. Among those, about 27 songs were selected and ultimately performed live, according to each visited market. "Pour que tu m'aimes encore", one of her biggest French songs, internationally, was performed throughout the whole tour; the song set records in the 1990s as the best-selling French-language single of all time, and one of the only French songs in music history to achieve chart success in many non-Francophone countries. The singer also performed several favorite cover songs, including: James Brown's "I Got the Feelin'" and "It's a Man's Man's Man's World", and Queen's "We Will Rock You" and "The Show Must Go On" (although the last two were dropped starting with 27 October Winnipeg show). She also performed Kiki Dee's "I've Got the Music in Me"; this song was removed after the show in South Korea.

When the tour ultimately reached Dion’s home province of Québec, Canada, she performed eight sold-out shows in Montréal and two in Québec City; furthermore, although not an official date on the Taking Chances Tour, on 22 August 2008, Dion performed a free show for 250,000 people—the single largest audience of her entire career—as part of the 400th anniversary of Quebec City; the concert was held at the legendary Plains of Abraham site. The show, exclusively performed in French, featured many special guests, including: Garou, Dan Bigras, Ginette Reno and Jean-Pierre Ferland. The show aired live on Bell Satellite TV and was seen by over 200,000 at-home viewers.

Broadcasts and recordings

Main article: Taking Chances World Tour: The Concert

See also: Celine: Through the Eyes of the World

Dion performing "River Deep – Mountain High" in Uniondale

On 22 August 2008, the City of Lévis aired Dion's honorary Quebec City's 400th birthday concert on both the web and television. Dion performed in front of 250,000 people. Additionally on 31 August 2008, a special performance of "My Love", aired on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. It became later the official video for the single "My Love."

Official tour photo book, called Celine autour du monde was released on 24 September 2009 in Québec and France and It includes 368 pages with 485 photos by Gérard Schachmes. There are images from concerts and backstage, photos of Dion, her family, tour team, dancers, singers, musicians and technicians, Dion intimate moments with her husband, René Angélil, and their son, Rene-Charles. There are all kind of photographs from walking on the River Thames, in a park with lions, a safari in Africa, to travel in private aircraft, including the arrival of trucks in the early morning in New York City and the spectacular assembling the scene. The book was released in Canada on 14 October 2009. The U.S. and Japanese editions are also planned.

The tour was chronicled in the documentary, Celine: Through the Eyes of the World, which gave the "unique opportunity to follow Celine everywhere, on stage, backstage, enjoying free time with her family; this movie will show it all." It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 11 May 2010.

Taking Chances World Tour: The Concert was released on 11 May 2010. It contains a DVD and a live CD of the English and French setlists (each released separately). The English set list was recorded in Boston (on 12 and 13 August 2008), while the French one in Montreal (on 31 August and 1 September 2008). There is also a deluxe edition including both DVDs and a 52-page booklet and fold-out souvenir postcards.

Commercial reception

Dion performing "Eyes on Me" in Montreal

Dion set a record in the history of Canadian concerts, when she sold out all her Montreal shows in only a few minutes. After further shows being added, bringing the total to 11, Montreal's audience (with 20,995 in attendance at each show) became the largest on the tour with 227,616 spectators for a single city. Dion performed in Bell Centre 31 times since 1996. Other Canadian concerts were sold out immediately, prompting second dates to be added in Edmonton, Vancouver and Winnipeg, and a third show added in Toronto. In the United States, second dates were announced in New York City, Uniondale, Boston, and Newark. In Ireland 64,000 tickets for her Dublin concert, the largest single concert of the scheduled tour, were sold out in 3 hours.

Dion also sold out stadium audiences in South Africa, Netherlands (50,000) and Denmark (42,000). A second concert date was added for Sydney, Australia after tickets were selling fast in the country. For a 22 August 2008 free concert (not a part of the Taking Chances Tour), Dion sang in front of her biggest crowd, up until that point, when she performed on the Plains of Abraham to help celebrate Quebec City's 400th Birthday. Tickets were distributed to around 250,000 people.

Dion announced she would be playing at The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor on 7 February 2008. Tickets sold out in a record 15 minutes, with more than 125 people queuing up the night before to wait for tickets. Her performance at the Kansas City, Missouri Sprint Center became the highest-grossing concert in the arena's history, with a gross of $1,661,827. That record has since been broken by Elton John and Billy Joel. Dion's concert at the Miami, Florida American Airlines Arena set an attendance record, selling 17,725 tickets. Britney Spears broke that record two months later, performing for 18,644 people. However, although singing for a smaller audience, Dion grossed $2,247,233; Spears managed to gross $1,972,928. According to her official website, Dion became the top-selling performer for three venues: Montreal’s Bell Centre, Kansas City's Sprint Center, and the New Orleans Arena. The latter concert grossed $1,829,331. Dion's performances at the Bell Centre (in 2008) ranked second in Billboard's Top 25 Boxscores.

Critical reception

The concerts received mixed reviews in the press. Diane Coetzer of Billboard claimed Dion's first performance in South Africa "may not have ultimately succeeded in presenting her as a multi-faceted performer, but it definitely confirmed that Dion is a singer of unparalleled ability. Performing in a stadium that ordinarily holds rugby fans and flanked by two huge screens, Dion used her astonishing voice to captivate the near-capacity crowd." Coetzer praised the dancing and visuals, but believed the choice in covering soul songs and songs from Queen made the show awkward until the closing in which "My Heart Will Go On" was performed.

Jon Caramanica of the New York Times wrote that Dion "showed off a few new tricks without violating her core tenets of scale and pomp." On the other hand, he described some of the other songs, such as "My Love" as "a technical exercise, a singer practicing her vocal workout in front of thousands of people." The Independent gave a negative review of Dion's performance in the London concert, by awarding the show 2 stars out of 5 and claiming, "Many singers perform in their second language and manage to sound convincing. Despite selling a reported 200 million albums – including 27 million copies of that Titanic soundtrack – Céline Dion is not one of them."

Randy Lewis's article in the Los Angeles Times was more enthusiastic, opening with, "It's a no-brainer why Celine Dion's Taking Chances tour is shaping up as one of the highest-grossing North American concert attractions of 2008... hundreds of thousands of fans are filling arena after arena to hear Dion deliver emotional climax after emotional climax, goosebump-inducing vocal thrill after thrill, sweeping chorus after chorus filled with spirit-lifting affirmations and enough technical razzle-dazzle to dwarf the Super Bowl halftime show. And that was just her opening number." The article was expanded, claiming "her vocal workouts are all about perfection — and without a hint Auto-Tuning in sight — she succeeds at letting her human side come through in the spaces between songs. That gave some tangible ballast to the often overblown arrangements that typify her middle-of-the-road pop songs. The album from which the tour draws its name does indeed take a few chances —stylistically, placing her in harder-hitting rock settings than she, or her fans, have been used to. And she included a healthy dose of the new songs, pumped up by her razor-sharp band and three singers, who were joined by eight dancers on several of the night's biggest numbers." Like in the previously mentioned Billboard article, the soul covers were not appreciated.

Sarah Rodman of the Boston Globe wrote positively, "There was never a dearth of stimulation, be it her own costume changes, the intricate lighting, the video imagery, or her cadre of dancers, deployed judiciously. It's a testament to her skill however, that even when the songs weren't strong, Dion was."

CTV News acclaimed Dion's performance in Montreal, "Dion's stock moves were also on ready display – the fist jabs in the air, the sweep of the arms which makes her look as though she's going to take flight, and the cantering across the stage. However, the trademark chest-thumping move dubbed 'the defibrillator' by comedians and critics wasn't as prominent. The 'Taking Chances World Tour' marks Dion's return to the road after a five-year gig in Las Vegas and Celineophiles were tingling with excitement as they lined up to get into the Bell Centre. Dion had the crowd in the palm of her hand to the point that when she swaggered over to a corner of the stage during various songs, the crowd in that section rose as one as though on command and reached out."

Much of the critical division came towards Dion's new image as someone who came back from a Vegas showcase. Dave Simpson of The Guardian gave the Manchester concert 3 stars out of 5 and stated, "in her nine-year break from touring (apart from a residency in Vegas), Dion has clearly been abducted by aliens and replaced by CelineBarbie, a dancing sex goddess who makes raunchy smiles at the camera, dances with musclemen, performs rockers penned by Pink's songwriter Linda Perry and, bizarrely, turns Roy Orbison songs into gay disco." An article in Sun Media gave the Toronto concert 3.5 out of 5 stars and stated, "Is Celine Dion really taking chances anymore? Well, the name of her current world tour would say that she is, but the 40-year-old mega-selling pop star is basically Vegas personified." On the other hand, The Vancouver Sun after praising the show's set-up, stated, "The idea here is presumably to humanize the diva, as it were, and, fittingly, during the show Dion makes use of two protruding catwalks to "mingle" with the audience. It's worth questioning how humanizing an influence doting devotees who can justify spending $520 for two hours of light entertainment really are, but that's a whole other thesis."

Opening act

• Jody Williams (South Africa)
• Yuna Ito (Japan)
• Anthony Callea (Australia)
• Michaël Gregorio (Europe, select dates)
• Arno Carstens (England)
• Il Divo (Ireland)
• Jon Mesek (Germany, Austria)
• The Storys (Netherlands)
• Nordstrøm (Denmark)
• Calaisa (Sweden, Finland)
• Lenka Filipová (Czech Republic)
• Natalia Lesz (Poland)
• Gordie Brown (North America, select dates)
• Véronic DiCaire (Montreal and Quebec)

Set list

The following set list was performed in Johannesburg, South Africa on 14 February 2008, and is not intended to represent the majority of performances throughout the tour.

1. Video introduction "I Drove All Night" (remix)
2. "I've Got The Music In Me"
3. "The Power of Love"
4. "Taking Chances"
5. Medley: "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"/"Because You Loved Me"/"To Love You More"
6. Instrumental Interlude "New Mego's Flamenco"
7. "Eyes on Me"
8. "All by Myself"
9. Instrumental Interlude "My Heart Will Go On" (remix)
10. "I'm Alive" (remix)
11. "Shadow of Love"
12. "Alone"
13. "Pour que tu m'aimes encore"
14. "Think Twice"
15. Soul medley: "Sex machine"/"Soul Man"/"Lady marmalade"/"Sir Duke"/"Respect"/"I Got the Feelin'"/ "I Got You (I Feel Good)"
16. "It's a Man's World"
17. "Love Can Move Mountains" (with Soweto Gospel Choir)
18. "River Deep – Mountain High"
19. "My Heart Will Go On"

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Revenue
Africa
14 February 2008[A]	Johannesburg	South Africa	Coca-Cola Dome	—	—
16 February 2008	Pretoria		Loftus Versfeld Stadium	59,100 / 91,200	$4,176,510
17 February 2008
20 February 2008	Durban		ABSA Stadium	36,973 / 36,973	$1,779,549
23 February 2008	Cape Town		Great Lawn at Vergelegen	53,328 / 68,000	$3,930,963
24 February 2008
27 February 2008	Port Elizabeth		EPRU Stadium	17,310 / 28,500	$902,836
29 February 2008	Johannesburg		Montecasino	20,987 / 23,000	$2,481,897
1 March 2008
Asia
5 March 2008	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	Four Seasons Golf Club	7,873 / 19,400	$1,487,185
8 March 2008	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome	95,150 / 100,000	$11,226,594
9 March 2008
11 March 2008	Osaka		Osaka Dome	58,756 / 60,000	$6,699,627
12 March 2008
15 March 2008	Macau		Venetian Arena	10,475 / 10,475	$1,996,842
18 March 2008	Seoul	South Korea	Olympic Gymnastics Arena	11,387 / 21,788	$1,843,776
19 March 2008
Oceania
31 March 2008	Brisbane	Australia	Brisbane Entertainment Centre	7,835 / 13,156	$1,719,321
2 April 2008	Melbourne		Rod Laver Arena	12,266 / 15,431	$2,314,928
5 April 2008	Sydney		Acer Arena	20,605 / 21,752	$4,176,200
6 April 2008
8 April 2008	Perth		Members Equity Stadium	10,086 / 15,613	$1,648,288
Asia
11 April 2008	Shanghai	China	Shanghai Stadium	22,579 / 30,198	$2,699,898
13 April 2008	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	Stadium Merdeka	8,638 / 11,258	$1,046,730
Europe
2 May 2008	Manchester	England	Manchester Evening News Arena	36,031 / 36,031	$5,339,056
3 May 2008
6 May 2008	London		The O2 Arena	37,445 / 38,300	$5,104,817
8 May 2008
10 May 2008	Birmingham		National Indoor Arena	12,108 / 12,432	$2,091,437
13 May 2008	Antwerp	Belgium	Sportpaleis	45,352 / 46,955	$7,619,814
14 May 2008
16 May 2008
19 May 2008	Paris	France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	73,555 / 83,148	$17,193,013
20 May 2008
21 May 2008
24 May 2008
25 May 2008
27 May 2008
30 May 2008	Dublin	Ireland	Croke Park	61,746 / 61,746	$8,650,493
2 June 2008	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Amsterdam Arena	46,969 / 52,772	$4,565,126
5 June 2008	Copenhagen	Denmark	Parken Stadium	39,071 / 39,360	$5,089,936
7 June 2008	Stockholm	Sweden	Stockholm Globe Arena	14,817 / 14,817	$2,428,840
9 June 2008	Helsinki	Finland	Hartwall Arena	13,348 / 13,348	$3,108,811
12 June 2008	Berlin	Germany	Waldbühne	13,153 / 14,000	$1,826,671
14 June 2008	Frankfurt		Commerzbank-Arena	15,333 / 18,000	$2,206,722
16 June 2008	Stuttgart		Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle	5,692 / 7,000	$1,274,927
18 June 2008	Cologne		Lanxess Arena	9,657 / 10,000	$1,914,513
20 June 2008	Hamburg		Color Line Arena	8,757 / 9,500	$2,023,846
22 June 2008	Munich		Olympiastadion	17,015 / 20,000	$2,414,114
24 June 2008	Zürich	Switzerland	Hallenstadion	11,005 / 11,005	$2,246,343
26 June 2008	Prague	Czech Republic	O2 Arena	13,923 / 18,000	$1,222,912
28 June 2008	Kraków	Poland	Błonia Park	12,755 / 15,000	$1,733,229
1 July 2008	Vienna	Austria	Wiener Stadthalle	9,518 / 10,000	$2,519,748
3 July 2008	Milan	Italy	DatchForum	—	—
5 July 2008	Nice	France	Stade Charles-Ehrmann	23,865 / 24,000	$4,198,510
7 July 2008[B]	Arras		Grand-Place d'Arras	14,974 / 15,000	$1,437,735
9 July 2008	Geneva	Switzerland	Stade de Genève	19,954 / 20,000	$4,364,730
11 July 2008[C]	Monte Carlo	Monaco	Salle des Etoiles	1,800 / 1,800	$1,420,236
12 July 2008[C]
North America
12 August 2008	Boston	United States	TD Banknorth Garden	32,493 / 32,493	$3,813,519
13 August 2008
15 August 2008	Montreal	Canada	Bell Centre	227,616 / 227,616	$30,137,572
16 August 2008
19 August 2008
20 August 2008
23 August 2008
25 August 2008
27 August 2008	Toronto		Air Canada Centre	54,384 / 54,384	$7,140,013
28 August 2008
31 August 2008	Montreal		Bell Centre	—	—
1 September 2008
3 September 2008	Buffalo	United States	HSBC Arena	16,343 / 16,343	$1,381,696
5 September 2008	Philadelphia		Wachovia Center	18,061 / 18,061	$2,246,374
6 September 2008	Ledyard		MGM Grand Theater	—	—
8 September 2008	Washington, D.C.		Verizon Center	16,845 / 16,845	$2,225,458
10 September 2008	Newark		Prudential Center	31,902 / 31,902	$3,605,530
12 September 2008
13 September 2008	Uniondale		Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum	32,432 / 32,432	$3,586,695
15 September 2008	New York City		Madison Square Garden	36,291 / 36,291	$4,476,480
16 September 2008
18 September 2008	Uniondale		Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum	—	—
20 September 2008	Atlantic City		Boardwalk Hall	14,590 / 14,590	$2,142,875
22 September 2008	Columbus		Value City Arena	16,986 / 16,986	$1,399,218
24 September 2008	Cleveland		Quicken Loans Arena	17,343 / 17,343	$1,486,401
26 September 2008	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills	19,486 / 19,486	$1,959,845
27 September 2008	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre	—	—
29 September 2008	Milwaukee	United States	Bradley Center	17,443 / 17,443	$1,193,896
14 October 2008	Sacramento		ARCO Arena	15,213 / 15,213	$1,442,044
16 October 2008	Portland		Rose Garden	18,001 / 18,001	$1,247,473
18 October 2008	Tacoma		Tacoma Dome	20,665 / 20,665	$1,765,386
20 October 2008	Vancouver	Canada	General Motors Place	34,348 / 34,348	$3,587,340
21 October 2008
24 October 2008	Edmonton		Rexall Place	32,958 / 32,958	$3,105,627
25 October 2008
27 October 2008	Winnipeg		MTS Centre	29,062 / 29,062	$2,586,462
28 October 2008
7 November 2008	Ottawa		Scotiabank Place	13,531 / 13,531	$1,803,586
29 November 2008	Anaheim	United States	Honda Center	15,587 / 15,587	$1,785,579
2 December 2008	Los Angeles		Staples Center	16,776 / 16,776	$2,157,110
6 December 2008	Glendale		Jobing.com Arena	16,283 / 16,283	$1,739,928
9 December 2008	Mexico City	Mexico	Palacio de los Deportes	16,316 / 16,417	$1,323,694
11 December 2008	Guadalajara		Arena VFG	9,442 / 13,244	$936,565
13 December 2008	Monterrey		Arena Monterrey	11,073 / 11,073	$1,065,716
16 December 2008	Chicago	United States	United Center	17,191 / 17,191	$1,943,436
18 December 2008	Minneapolis		Target Center	15,503 / 15,503	$1,814,517
21 December 2008	Indianapolis		Conseco Fieldhouse	14,538 / 14,538	$1,154,402
3 January 2009	Kansas City		Sprint Center	16,106 / 16,106	$1,661,827
5 January 2009	Dallas		American Airlines Center	17,661 / 17,661	$2,161,548
7 January 2009	San Antonio		AT&T Center	12,882 / 12,882	$1,164,271
9 January 2009	Houston		Toyota Center	16,396 / 16,396	$2,225,019
10 January 2009	New Orleans		New Orleans Arena	17,006 / 17,006	$1,829,331
13 January 2009	Nashville		Sommet Center	16,352 / 16,352	$1,602,595
15 January 2009	Birmingham		BJCC Arena	14,733 / 14,733	$1,065,830
17 January 2009	Atlanta		Philips Arena	16,919 / 16,919	$2,300,783
21 January 2009	Raleigh		RBC Center	16,527 / 16,527	$1,583,500
23 January 2009	Miami		American Airlines Arena	17,725 / 17,725	$2,247,233
28 January 2009	Tampa		St. Pete Times Forum	17,909 / 17,909	$1,843,187
30 January 2009	Sunrise		BankAtlantic Center	18,147 / 18,147	$2,233,198
31 January 2009	San Juan	Puerto Rico	Coliseo de Puerto Rico	13,812 / 13,812	$1,625,045
2 February 2009	Tulsa	United States	BOK Center	15,933 / 15,933	$1,570,961
4 February 2009	St. Louis		Scottrade Center	17,283 / 17,283	$1,351,246
7 February 2009	Windsor	Canada	The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor	1,978 / 2,656	$320,966
9 February 2009	Quebec City		Colisée Pepsi	20,903 / 20,903	$2,941,651
10 February 2009
12 February 2009	Montreal		Bell Centre	—	—
14 February 2009
15 February 2009
20 February 2009	San Jose	United States	HP Pavilion at San Jose	16,862 / 16,862	$1,897,276
22 February 2009	Salt Lake City		EnergySolutions Arena	16,212 / 16,212	$1,245,743
24 February 2009	Denver		Pepsi Center	16,461 / 16,461	$1,413,647
26 February 2009	Omaha		Qwest Center Arena	15,783 / 15,783	$1,260,362
Total				2,193,483 / 2,325,831 (94%)	$274,126,379

Festivals and other miscellaneous performances

^A This concert benefited Nelson Mandela Children's Fund

^B This concert was a part of the "Main Square Festival"

^C These concerts were a part of the "Monte-Carlo Sporting Summer Festival"

Cancelled shows

List of cancelled concerts showing date, city, country, venue, and reason for cancellation

Date	City	Country	Venue	Reason
3 March 2008	Doha	Qatar	Al-Sadd Stadium	Security reasons & sickness (Auckland & San Diego)
23 March 2008	Auckland	New Zealand	Vector Arena
13 April 2008	Beijing	China	Workers Stadium
28 June 2008	Istanbul	Turkey	BJK İnönü Stadium
23 August 2008	Halifax	Canada	Halifax Common
25 November 2008	San Diego	United States	San Diego Sports Arena

• Dion's performances at the Bell Centre (in 2008) ranked second in Billboard's Top 25 Boxscores.

Personnel

• Manager: René Angélil
• Tour director: Denis Savage
• Tour manager: Michel Dion (talent)
• Tour manager: Patrick Angélil (production, logistics and media relations)
• Production manager: Rick Mooney
• Assistant production manager: Shari Weber
• Stage manager: Alexandre Miasnikof
• Artist's personal security: Nick Skokos
• Tour rigger: Cindy Beaumariage
• Lighting director: Yves "Lapin" Aucoin
• Front of house engineer: François "Frankie" Desjardins
• Monitor engineer: Charles Ethier
• Audio system engineer: Mario St-Onge
• RF engineer: Marc Theriault
• Health Services/Chiropractor: Trevelynn Henuset DC
• Assistant lighting director/lighting head: Karl Gaudreau
• Video director: Veillet Mireille
• Head back-line tech: Jeff Dubois
• Computer programmer and keyboard technician: Guy Vignola
• Head video: Martin Perreault
• Production assistants: Sharie Weber, Stephanie Duval
• Tour accountant: Sylvia Hebel
• Creative director: Jamie King
• Tour director: Jim Allison, Concerts West
• Production director: Lonnie McKenzie
• Lighting, audio, video vendor: Solotech, Montreal
• Merchandiser: Billy Wilson

Band

• Musical Director, Piano: Claude "Mégo" Lemay
• Drums: Dominique Messier
• Bass: Marc Langis
• Guitars: André Coutu
• Violin: Jean Sebastien Carré
• Keyboards: Yves Frulla
• Percussion: Nannette Fortier
• Cello: Julie McInnes
• Background vocals, Cello, Tin whistle: Élise Duguay
• Background vocals: Mary-Lou Gauthier, Barnev Valsaint, Andrew St. Pierre
• Dancers: Amanda Balen, Melissa Garcia, Kemba Shannon, Addie Yungmee, Zac Brazenas, Joshua Figueroa, Dominic Chaiduang, Aaron Foelske, Miguel Perez, Chris Houston, Tammy To

See also

• List of highest-grossing concert tours
• List of highest-grossing concert tours by women