Concert Synopsis
The concert opened with Spears taking the stage accompanied by four blonde female dancers to perform a short version of "...Baby One More Time", wearing a silver beaded bra, a pleated white skirt and white boots. She wore a long brown wig to cover the head she had shaved two and a half months previously and appeared in physically good shape. (By now her hair was about an inch long, and one of her dancers said of her hair without the wig, "It's getting longer and she looks beautiful.") The show then segued into a flashy shortened version of "I'm a Slave 4 U". Though while Spears performed the original choreography to "Slave", the performance was compared to the style of the Pussycat Dolls. The dancers then left Spears alone onstage to perform a chair routine of "Breathe on Me". They re-entered with a male fan from the audience with them and Spears giving him a lap dance. Half way through the lap dance, Spears disappeared for a costume change leaving her dancers to continue the performance. She then reappeared in a hot pink bra, white fur coat and jean skirt to perform "Do Somethin'" with Spears throwing air guitars to the crowd. The show then concluded with "Toxic", which featured Spears and her dancers performing in a mix of Spears and Shakira dance styles. As the performance came to an end, Spears said "Thank you so much. These are my dancers" – her only words during the show – and left the stage. The show lasted around 12–16 minutes.
Shows typically began some two or three hours after the stated time. There was no live band for the shows; Spears and the dancers performed to recorded tracks. Spears' vocals during the show were also not live but rather were lip-synched to the recording. At some points, she was chewing gum while performing. The lack of live singing became most prominent during the Orlando stop of the tour, when the CD that Spears was miming along to began skipping during "Do Somethin'", reportedly causing some in the audience to start booing. By the Florida shows, Spears was up to four costume changes.
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