Showgirl - The Homecoming Tour is the comeback tour of Australian Dance-pop singer Kylie Minogue after her cancellation on 17 May 2005, of the Australian and Asian legs of the original Showgirl - The Greatest Hits Tour, after her diagnosis of breast cancer. It was announced on 22 June 2006 that she will resume, with a new playlist and set, in November and December of 2006 in Australia and January 2007 in the UK.
| Tour by Kylie Minogue | |
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| Legs | 2 |
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| No. of shows | 33 shows |
Setlist
Act 1: Homecoming
Act 2: Everything Taboo
Act 3: Samsara
Act 4: Athletica
- Butterfly (Sandstorm Dub Interlude)
- Red Blooded Woman / Where the Wild Roses Grow
- Slow
- Kids
Act 5: Dreams
Act 6: Pop Paradiso
- Burning Up / Vogue
- The Loco-Motion
- I Should Be So Lucky
- Hand on Your Heart
Act 7: Dance of the Cybermen
Encore
Ticket Sales
Minogue's additional two concerts in London went on sale on the 21 July 2006 at 9am BST. The 2nd and 3rd of January 2007 sold out in 6 minutes. Such was the demand that an additional two dates where added (5th and 6th January 2007) an hour later. This caused the ticket servers to crash. Finally two more dates were added to the schedule (8th and 9th January 2007). Tickets for all dates sold out almost instantly. Confirmation also came from Minogue herself that the 9th January 2007 concert will be her final date of the Showgirl tour anywhere, however ticket demand was so high she decided to end the tour in Manchester instead saying "Manchester has always been so welcoming for me and I am so happy to be ending my world tour there". The first 2 Manchester shows sold out in record time, an additional 2 Manchester dates were announced.Less than 4 days later an addition 2 shows were added. A further show in London scheduled for New Years Eve went on sale 14/12/06 and sold out in 30 minutes.
Return To Stage
On Saturday 11 November, Kylie resumed the sellout Showgirl Tour; her opening words, as she rose from below the stage on a platform dressed in a pink feathered head-dress and flowing gown by John Galliano, were "Good evening Sydney!". For 30 seconds in between her ascension and the beginning of the first song, Better The Devil You Know, Kylie absorbed an explosive standing ovation from a tearful audience. The emotional comeback performance was watched by her parents and French boyfriend/actor Olivier Martinez at the side of the stage, and 10,000 fans. Despite being in recovery from her breast cancer ordeal, it was Kylie who asked the all important question of the night, "How're you feeling tonight?"
For almost two and a half hours Kylie dazzled the audience with a collection of songs from some of her biggest disco hits, through to some of her lesser known favourites.
Concert Specific Tracks
Sunday 10 December 2006:
- Got To Be Certain - Sung for just one verse and one chorus with band playing along after In Your Eyes.
- Fever - Sung acapella with 'Jason', a boy who joined Kylie from the audience after Especially For You.
Sunday 31 December 2006
- Celebration - Sung at Midnight after Especially For You and a New Years countdown.
Tuesday 2 January
- Got To Be Certain - Perfromed with the band playing along after 'Especially For You'. The track was performed as a result of fans shouting if Kylie would do a request.
Wednesday 3 January
- Can't Get You out of My Head - Sung with 3 young girls dressed as 'Showgirls' who joined Kylie on the stage from the audience.
Tuesday 9 January
- Can't Get You out of My Head - Sung with 'Christian', a boy who joined Kylie from the audience after Especially For You.
Duets
- On the 12 November Bono from U2 joined Kylie onstage to sing the hit single 'Kids'.
- On the 16 December Dannii Minogue joined her sister Kylie onstage to sing the hit single 'Kids'.
- On the 9 January Dannii Minogue joined her sister Kylie onstage to sing the hit single 'Kids'.
DVD release
It has been confirmed that the second Melbourne show (11 December 2006) will be filmed for a TV special and DVD release. Kylie Minogue's Showgirl Homecoming Tour is scheduled to be broadcast on Saturday 13 January 2007 on Channel 4 at 10:00pm with numerous repeats on E4 throughout the year.
Audio CD release
An audio recording from second show on 12 November in Sydney will be released on audio CD 8 January, 2007.
Rescheduled tour dates
Sydney
- 11 November 2006 (original date: 31 May 2005)
- 12 November 2006 (original date: 01 June 2005)
- 14 November 2006 (original date: 02 June 2005)
Brisbane
- 17 November 2006 (original date: 04 June 2005)
- 18 November 2006 (original date: 05 June 2005)
- 20 November 2006 (original date: 06 June 2005)
Sydney
Acer Arena (formerly SuperDome)
- 23 November 2006 (original date: 19 May 2005)
- 24 November 2006 (original date: 20 May 2005)
- 26 November 2006 (original date: 21 May 2005)
Adelaide
- 30 November 2006 (original date: 08 June 2005)
- 01 December 2006 (original date: 09 June 2005)
Perth
Perth Burswood Dome
- 04 December 2006 (original date: 12 June 2005)
- 05 December 2006 (original date: 13 June 2005)
- 07 December 2006 (original date: 14 June 2005)
Melbourne
- 10 December 2006 (original date: 23 May 2005)
- 11 December 2006 (original date: 24 May 2005)
- 13 December 2006 (original date: 25 May 2005)
- 14 December 2006 (original date: 27 May 2005)
- 16 December 2006 (original date: 28 May 2005)
- 17 December 2006 (original date: 29 May 2005)
New Tour Dates
London
- 31 December 2006 (Special New Year's Eve Concert with the countdown to 2007)
- 2 January 2007
- 3 January 2007
- 5 January 2007
- 6 January 2007
- 8 January 2007
- 9 January 2007
Manchester
- 12 January 2007
- 13 January 2007
- 15 January 2007
- 16 January 2007
- 18 January 2007
- 19 January 2007