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Cher at the Colosseum
Cher Performing Believe.
Tour by Cher
Supporting album	TBA
Start date	May 6, 2008
End date	2010
Legs	9
Shows	149 in North America
Cher tour chronology
Living Proof: The Farewell Tour (2002-2005)	Cher at the Colosseum (2008-2010)

Cher at the Colosseum is a series of concerts by Cher at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Performing at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, the first show occurred on May 6, 2008. The singer plans to perform 200 dates over a three year period. The show includes 14 dancers and four aerialists, with a total of 17 costumes designed by Bob Mackie.^[1]

Setlist

1. "Farewell Tour Opening Megamix/Hologram of Cher"
2. "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
3. "Song for the Lonely" ¹
   • "Flying Death Mobile/Teamster Monologue"
   • "Laverne Skit"
   • "I've Gotta Be Me" (Video Interlude)
4. "All Or Nothing" ²
5. "I Found Someone" ⁵
   • Aerial Rope Dance Interlude
6. "Love Is a Battlefield" ⁹
   • Zoot Suiters Dance Interlude
7. "Fire Down Below" ⁸
   • Drums and Sweeping Dance Interlude
8. "Old Time Rock and Roll" ¹⁰
   • "It's the Little Things" (Video Interlude)
9. "The Beat Goes On" (duet with Sonny)
   • "Grand Canyon Closet Monologue"
   • 60s Girls Dance Interlude
10. "All I Really Want to Do"
    • Native American Style Dance Interlude
11. "Half-Breed"
    • Gypsy Style Dance Interlude
12. "Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves"
13. "Dark Lady"
    • Sexy Dance and Disco Style Dance Interlude
    • "Disco Inferno"
    • "Y.M.C.A."
14. "Don't Leave Me This Way"
15. "Take Me Home"
    • "Sunny" and "I Got You Babe" (Video Interlude)
16. "Love Hurts" ³
17. "The Way of Love" ¹²
    • Cher Movie Monologues (Video Interlude)
18. "After All" (Duet with Paul Markovich)
    • Aerial Silk Dance Interlude
19. "Walking In Memphis"
20. "Let the Good Times Roll" ⁶
21. "Help Me Make It Through The Night" ⁷
22. "The Shoop Shoop Song" ⁴
    • "Ain't Nobody's Business" (Video Interlude)
23. "Strong Enough"¹¹
24. "If I Could Turn Back Time"
    • Cher through the decades morphing pictures
25. "Believe"
    • "Believe Outro"

Footnotes

First Leg

• ¹ Sung for the first week of shows.
• ² Sung for the first couple of weeks.
• ³ Sung only on the first night.

Second Leg

• In the second leg, the intro is replaced with the old video montage intro that was used for Living Proof: The Farewell Tour.
• ¹, ², and ³ are still not included.
• ⁴ is no longer included.
• ⁵ was sung before the "Laverne Skit" as of June 1, but was later taken out around September.
• The dancers have new outfits and a new choreography for "Strong Enough" which resemble soccer or rugby attire with ripped white tee shirts and giant goalie nets that hang from the ceiling for the aerialists.
• ⁶ on October 1, 2008, Cher sang "Let the Good Times Roll" a song she said was requested by a friend of hers in the audience that night. It was sung only for that one night.

Third Leg

• ¹, ², ⁴ and ⁵ are still not included.
• ⁶ is included.
• ¹² is no longer included
• ³ is re-added to the setlist and sung in place of ¹².

Fourth Leg

• ¹, ², ⁴, and ⁵ are not included and ⁶ was sang on select nights.
• ⁷ was sung on May 19 for her friend Richard Stark's birthday, founder/creator of Chrome Hearts.

Fifth Leg

• ¹, ², ⁴, ⁵, ⁶ and ⁷ are still not included.
• ⁹ is no longer included.
• ⁸ and ¹⁰ are added to the setlist and sung in place of is sung in place of ⁹.

Sixth Leg

• ¹¹ September 23, 2009, "Strong Enough" is dropped, and "If I Could Turn Back Time" starts after Ain't Nobody's Business, while ⁶ is re-added to the list for a few nights and then dropped again.

Costumes

Legendary designer Bob Mackie created a total of twenty-two unique ensembles for Cher at the Colosseum.

• For "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and "Song for the Lonely", Cher wears a gold-feathered cape (resembling a bird or goddess) and a headdress/crown with an Egyptian asp. In the back her hair looks like gold dreadlocks, but is actually gold beaded chains. The cape is removed after she gets off of her “Flying Death Mobile” to reveal a much skimpier gold fringe sequined outfit, the same gold fringed sequined outfit that she wore for the Living Proof: The Farewell Tour's introduction, "The Power", the Love Medley, and "Love Hurts". She also wears gold boots.

• For her Laverne skit, Cher wears a leopard-skinned dress/jump-suit and coat with purple, green, and pink feathers. She has her typical Laverne red curly wig, tacky jewelry, and purple pointed glasses.

• For "All or Nothing" and "I Found Someone", Cher wears a bronze and gold sultan themed outfit (with pants) covered in gold jewels and sequins. She has long gold tassels that hang from her arms and mid-section. Her hair is a large curly red wig and has a gold forehead crown attached.

• For "Love Is a Battlefield", Cher wears a ram horned headdress adorned with a big apricot colored wig with black tips. She wears leather thigh high boots, a skin tight ripped flesh colored and brown mesh outfit, a cape, and leather gloves.

• For "The Beat Goes On", Cher wears a red sequined mini-dress with matching boots, rings, and earrings. She also wears a black-and-white fur/feather coat and her wig is her signature 60s styled long black hair.

• For "All I Really Want to Do", Cher has had her Living Proof: The Farewell Tour's 60s hippie bell-bottom outfit remade. Her fur vest is now bright purple, her sweater is red-orange, and her bell-bottoms have new colors to match her sweater and fur vest. She still wears several rings on her hands, bright purple earrings, and belly-button length ankh necklace around her neck.

• For "Half-Breed", Cher wears her classic Native American feathered headdress war-bonnet over her trademark long straight black hair. She wears her pink, yellow, orange, and red floor length loin cloth covered in jewels. She also has wrist cuffs with jewels and white feathers.

• For "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" and "Dark Lady", Cher wears a purple, yellow, and green gypsy styled dress covered with jewels, a heart, a star, a club, a moon, and a diamond. The skirt part of the dress was very large, flared, and seems rather heavy. She wears a matching headdress with purple Rasta hair. She again has wrist cuffs and new teal blue leather boots with a gold trim at the top.

• Bob Mackie had made a new gypsy styled outfit when Cher started her new leg of shows in September of 2009. It was worn for the opening show and was not worn again; she went back to the original gypsy outfit. The newer version was made to transform from a gypsy outfit (very similar to the original) to a gown for “Dark Lady”. The newer gypsy outfit did not have a large flared skirt, but now it had strips of jeweled purple and blue sheer fabric. The designs on the dress were more or less the same as the original gypsy outfit, but the headdress and Rasta purple hair had slightly changed. When it was time to go into singing “Dark Lady”, two of Cher’s dancers came out to remove a piece of the gypsy skirt which let a longer train of a gown fall to the floor. The gypsy outfit was now a “Fortune Queen” gown of a midnight blue sheer color. A black feathered floor length hand muff was put on her left arm and a black jeweled feathered wreath hat was placed over her gypsy headdress.

Sketch for "Don't Leave Me This Way".

• For "Don't Leave Me This Way", Cher wears a teal blue feathered hat and coat/wrap that has lights flashing on it and green, blue, and purple geometric designs.

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

• For "The Way of Love", Cher wears a midnight blue floor length gown and elbow high gloves with a sequined floral design all along the right side of her torso along with a midnight blue flower themed headdress/cap. It is the same gown, newer version of the gown she wore for her Cher: A Celebration at Caesars shows.

• For "Love Hurts", Cher has combined her previous "The Way of Love" midnight blue gown with the gown Bob Mackie made for her Time magazine cover photo in 1975. The gown is silver now and still floor length. She continues to wear the floral themed headdress/cap. The gown’s design has a feather mystique that covers all the right spots with sequins, beads, and giant pastel colored stones and jewels.

• For "After All", Cher wears an “Ice Queen” light periwinkle fur coat with sequined designs on the back of the coat, pointed hat, leather gloves, and chain mail neck scarf. A newer version of the white “Ice Queen” coat she wore for her Heart of Stone Tour and Love Hurts Tour.

• For "Walking In Memphis", Cher has had her peasant girl blouse and jeans outfit from Living Proof: The Farewell Tour redone. She now wears Chrome Hearts jeans with blue Gothic crosses, Chrome Hearts silver and diamond jewelry, and a Loree Rodkin gold bondage ring. Her peasant girl blouse was a light blue-purple color, but she recently has gone back to the original white color for the blouse. Her wig started out as above the shoulders and curly, to below the shoulders and wavy, to below the shoulders and straight, and recently has been changed to a long straight wig that goes down to her stomach. All have been blond wigs.

• For "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)", Cher wears a mini black dress with flared open sleeves, pointed shoulder pads, and pink and green floral jeweled designs. She wears a curly hot pink wig that has bangs in front and curly pig-tails on the side. She also wore bright pink heels.

• For "Strong Enough" and "If I Could Turn Back Time", Cher wears her classic biker-chick jeweled ripped leather and fishnet black body suit with thong, thigh high leather jeweled boots, and a jeweled black leather jacket from her Living Proof: The Farewell Tour, Heart of Stone Tour, and Love Hurts Tour. She wears her classic giant curly black wig.

• For the closing number, "Believe", three outfits have been made. The first outfit she wore for her first leg of concerts in May. She wears a silver-and-white costume with feathers and jewels, resembling a goddess. The costume has wings that hang down from both arms and she wears a platinum white wig with bangs in the front. The wig bumps up on top of her head and is long in the back with a goddess crown. The wig came down on her neck and throat and covered it almost like a helmet. Her breasts her covered in flesh colored fabric with jewels and her chest and torso were covered by jeweled white and flesh colored fabric in an hour glass shape.

Her second outfit was debuted her first night back for her second leg of concerts in August. Bob Mackie was quoted as saying, "Cher told me that she wanted to be more naked...It's not vulgar, but it's quite shocking. It's like we dipped her in glue and rolled her in diamonds. Not enough of them to cover up the girl." She has what looks to be a cape of tassels and sequins. Her left hand and arm have diamond tassels hanging from them. Her torso is covered with flesh colored material that is covered with bubble shapes made of diamonds and sequins. She has a new headdress that resembles the headdress/crown she wears for the opening outfit when she sings "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". Instead of being gold, it is now silver and it does not have the Egyptian asp, it still has the rounded crown on the top of her head. In the back, her hair looks like dread-locks but they are silver beaded chains.

The third outfit is a combination of the “Believe” outfit from the Living Proof: The Farewell Tour and the second Believe outfit from Caesars Palace. It has beaded chains hanging down over all the right places but is still revealing. She wears a jeweled thong revealing almost her entire buttocks, revealing her infamous tattoo. She wears a jeweled braw that is flesh colored and covered in silver jewels, it has a jeweled red heart over her left breast. Her sleeves are long beaded chains that wrap around her arms. She has a bright candy-apple red wig with slanted bangs that goes down to her shoulders. She also wears silver beaded wrist cuffs and platinum silver boots.

Concert dates

All shows are performed at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Cancellations

Cher canceled seven shows due to an illness that she called "Vegas Throat". Rumors spread saying that the star had cancer. Cher made an appearance on the Today show and Access Hollywood saying, "If I had cancer everyone would know about it. I wouldn't tell them but someone would." She also said she couldn't wait to return to Las Vegas in February 2009. The canceled dates were: September 7, 23, 24, 27, 28 and October 4 and 5 in 2008.

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Broadcast and recordings

On February 26, 2009, Entertainment Tonight aired a segment featuring clips from the show, including "Believe", "Love Is a Battlefield", "Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves" and "Half-Breed". The audio of all performances was replaced by a remix of "Believe".^[7] In early May 2009, a complete recording of the May 9 show was posted in her official community. "Let The Good Times Roll" was also posted, from the May 6 performance, in which Cher's former boyfriend Robert Camilletti was present. The Blu-Ray/DVD&cd combo of the show will be released January 25th, 2011. The package includes four tappings of the show and will include a new music video as a bonus feature. Her rep. confirms that the new album will be released late 2010 and will include two versions of the album. The standard version has 14 songs while the Deluxe Edition will include 19. Her rep says." This is going to be by far the most successful album Cher has recorded in her 45 year Career." When interviewed by Vegas Weekly Cher Confirms That there will be a new tour after her residency at Caesars Palace expires." You know, I never thought I would ever consider touring again but I miss it. I really do."

Merchandise

Located at Caesars Palace just to the left of the Colosseum entrance doors is the Cher Boutique. There, fans can purchase memorabilia such as programs, shirts, hats, CDs and DVD, pens, posters etc. Prices range to $4 to about $1000+.

Personnel

• Lead Vocals: Cher
• Musical Direction & Choreographer: Doriana Sanchez
• Costume Design: Bob Mackie
• Aerial Choreographer: Dreya Weber
• Dance Captain: Kevin Wilson
• Aerialist: Sagiv Ben Binyamin
• Aerialist: Katia Sereno
• Aerialist: Mam Smith
• Aerialist: Maximiliano Torandell
• Dancer: Melissa Cabrera
• Dancer: Jackie Dowsett
• Dancer: Suzanne Easter
• Dancer: Scott Fowler
• Dancer: Stephanie Landwehr
• Dancer: Sumayah McRae
• Dancer: Marlon Pelayo
• Dancer: Jamal Story
• Dancer: Jaymz Tuaileva
• Dancer: Clare Turton
• Dancer: Tovaris Wilson

Band

• Background Vocals: Stacy Campbell
• Background Vocals: Jenny Douglas-McRae
• Background Vocals: Patti Russo
• Background Vocals: Danni Gee
• Background Vocals: Nichelle Tillman
• Musical Director/Keyboards/Vocals: Paul Mirkovich
• Guitars/Background Vocals: David Barry
• Drums: Mark Schulman
• Drums: Nate Morton
• Keyboards: Darrell Smith
• Bass: Alexander (Sasha) Krivstov

References

External links

• Cher's Official Web Page
• Cher at the Colosseum Official Site