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Oops!... I Did It Again Tour
Tour by Britney Spears
Autographed promotional poster for the tour
Location
  • Europe
  • North America
  • South America
Associated albumOops!... I Did It Again
Start dateJune 20, 2000 (2000-06-20)
End dateJanuary 18, 2001 (2001-01-18)
Legs3
No. of shows88
Supporting acts
Box office$40.5 million ($71.66 in 2023 dollars)[1]
Britney Spears concert chronology

The Oops!... I Did It Again Tour (billed as Oops!... I Did It Again Tour 2000) was the third concert tour by American entertainer Britney Spears. It supported her second studio album, Oops!... I Did It Again (2000), and visited North America, Europe, and Brazil. The tour was announced in February 2000, while Spears was in the midst of the Crazy 2k Tour. The stage was much more elaborative than her previous tours and featured video screens, fireworks and moving platforms. The setlist was composed by songs from her first two studio albums, ...Baby One More Time and Oops!... I Did It Again, as well as a few covers. Showco was the sound company, who used the PRISM system to adapt the show to each venue. Spears used a handheld microphone and a headset during the shows, while an ADAT was used to replace her voice during energetic dance routines.

The show consisted of four segments with each segment being followed by an interval to the next segment, and it ended with an encore. The show began with Spears descending from a giant orb. Most of the songs displayed energetic dance routines with the exception of the second segment, which featured mostly ballads. The encore consisted of a performance with fireworks. The Oops!... I Did It Again Tour received positive reviews from critics, who praised Spears's energy onstage as well as the band. It was also a commercial success; the reported dates by Billboard averaged $507,786 in grosses and nearly 15,841 in attendance. According to Pollstar, it brought a total of $40.5 million in North America only and became one of the highest-grossing tours of 2000. The Oops!... I Did It Again Tour was broadcast by many channels around the world. Former Wishbone star Mikaila was one of the opening acts for the tour.[2]

Background

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On February 22, 2000, Spears announced a summer tour in support of her second studio album, Oops!... I Did It Again (2000).[3] The tour marked the first time Spears toured Europe. She commented, "I'm going to go to Europe, and just basically go everywhere for six months, [...] I've never toured outside of the U.S. I've never experienced other fans in other places, and performing in front of them is going to be so exciting."[4] Before the tour began, Forbes reported that concert promoter SFX Entertainment guaranteed her a minimum of $200,000 per show.[5] Tour sponsors from the 2000 leg of the ...Baby One More Time Tour, Got Milk?, and Polaroid, remained. Clairol's Herbal Essences was also added as a sponsor.[6] Spears recorded a song for the latter called "I've Got the Urge to Herbal" to be used on their radio campaign, though she chose to not attend a photoshoot for the product when she decided to support an 86-day strike by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). She later donated $1 from each ticket sold from her Inglewood, California show on July 28, 2000 to the union.[7] For the European leg of the tour, Spears originally was going to do a co-headlining tour with NSYNC following the group's No Strings Attached Tour.[8] Spears ended up touring the region solo.

Development

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Jamie King was chosen as tour director.[9] Tim Miller and Kevin Antunes served as director of production and musical director, respectively.[10] Mark Foffano was chosen as the lightning director.[11] Spears described the tour as "like a Broadway show".[7] The setlist included material from her first studio album ...Baby One More Time (1999) as well as seven songs from Oops!... I Did It Again. Spears explained, "I've been singing the same material for so long now. It'll be nice to change it up a little bit."[12] She also talked about her expectations for the tour, saying, "I can't wait. I'll have a world tour. I'm going to have more dancers, a bigger stage, more pyro... just a lot bigger".[13] The proscenium stage was much more elaborate than the stage of her previous tour and included video screens, movable platforms and different props.[14] It cost $2.2 million to build. The tone of the show varied from the beginning: for the performance of "Born to Make You Happy", Spears sang in a set resembling a children's bedroom, complete with large toys and a pillow fight routine. On the contrary, she unveiled a more sophisticated image for "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know", and followed it with raunchy performances for "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I Did It Again".[7]

The sound equipment was provided by Showco who used the PRISM system, which adapted the show for each venue according to its height, width and the coverage required. The sound was mixed by Front of house engineer Monty Lee Wilkes on a combination of Yamaha PM4000 and PM3000 consoles, an unusual choice for Spears's shows. He used dbx 903 compressors for kick and snare drums. The compressors were also used on Spears's microphones, a Shure Beta 58A handheld and a Crown CM-311AE headset-mounted capsule. Spears's vocals were mostly live—pre-recorded vocals ran in parallel on an ADAT machine during the shows, and were used to replace her live microphone when the dance routines became too energetic for good voice control.[15] Spears's band, backline technicians and monitor engineer Raza Sufi were all fitted with in-ear monitors and headset mics, enabling rapid and clear communications around the stage area. Spears did not use them, preferring the ambient sound of a battery of eight Showco SRM wedges spread across the downstage area. These were augmented by Showco SS full-range sidefills and a pair of one-by-18-inch subs on each side of the stage. Sufi also used a dbx 160A to limit Spears's louder moments, while backing vocalists were controlled by a duo of BSS DPR901 dynamic equalizers. Effects were limited to vocal and drum reverbs. Amplification for the wedges and the FOH system were all Crown-based, with a pair of drum stool shakers completing the line-up. All the cables used during the tour were brought from the US, even in Europe, something unusual in audio production.[15]

Concert synopsis

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The show began with the video introduction "The Britney Spears Experience", in which three images of Spears welcomed spectators to the show.[16] Then, a giant metal orb was lowered onstage and lifted again to reveal Spears standing behind it, wearing a pink halter top (some shows It was orange), a side silver jacket, and glittery jeans.[17] Spears started with two dance-oriented performances of "(You Drive Me) Crazy" and "Stronger". This was followed by "What U See (Is What U Get)" in which she removed her silver side jacket and she danced on a stripper pole wearing a pink cowboy hat.[18] The act ended with Spears talking to the audience and sitting on a stool to perform "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" with her guitarist Skip.

After she left the stage, there was a video interlude hosted by NSYNC (via screen) and Spears' two background singers (two female background dancers in Europe) in which contestants did different games in order to meet Spears. She appeared onstage to meet the chosen fan and then welcomed the audience into her bedroom. Wearing white pajamas and slippers, she performed "Born to Make You Happy", which included a dance segment near the end. She then continued with "Lucky" featuring her two background singers (two female background dancers during all the European show) helping Spears getting ready for a typical day. Halfway through the song during the dance break, her male dancers all dressed in navy sailor costumes do a routine before Spears continues the remainder of the song dressed as a ship captain. "Sometimes", in which changed back into her white pajamas and slippers (coincidentally an outfit similar to the one she wore in the music video of the song) and featured Spears' and her dancers throwing teddy bears, beach balls, and squirting the audience with water guns. At the end, she climbed the staircase and briefly spoke to the audience before moving into a performance of "Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know", for which she wore a long white dress trimmed with boa feathers (dressed up much like in the music video as Lucky).[7][16]

A band interlude showcasing a mix of funk and progressive rock from her band followed, and Spears reappeared to perform her cover of Sonny & Cher's "The Beat Goes On." During the performance, she was lifted into the air wearing a kimono that covered most of the stage. She continued with "Don't Go Knockin' on My Door" (loosing the kimono wearing a full purple jumpsuit) and her cover of The Rolling Stones's "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", which ended with a dance sequence set to the original version.

Next, there was a dance interval in which the dancers showed their individual moves while their names appeared on the screens. Spears took the stage again in a conservative schoolgirl outfit to perform "...Baby One More Time." She ripped it off halfway through the song to reveal a cheerleader ensemble.[7][16] Spears then thanked the audience, took a bow and left the stage. She returned shortly after (wearing a black two-piece jumpsuit imprinted with orange flames) to perform "Oops!... I Did It Again", that included an extended dance break after the second chorus, pyrotechnics and other special effects.[16] She ended the performance disappearing through a tunnel of fire.[7]

Reception

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The show received positive reviews from critics. Andrew Miller of The Pitch stated "[the concert] at Sandstone proved that many [of Spears's] criticisms are off-base observations from people who have never actually attended one of these stars' shows. The music came from a talented band, not a DAT, and the bass lines to such songs as "... Baby One More Time" and "The Beat Goes On" rose to a funky growl in the live setting. For another, Spears' vocals were the real thing, as she sang in an alluringly low tone [...] but capably hit the high notes [...], however, she left the upper-octave duties to her background singers [...] during Spears' most strenuous dance routines".[16] Richard Leiby of The Washington Post believed that the show "[was] great".[19] Letta Tayler of Newsday said "For half the show, she remained the old Britney, the budding teen who dreamed of romance. But the rest of the time, she was a full-throttle tease, with sprayed- on clothes, a hard-edged attitude and a harder edge to her techno and hip-hop- coated pop to match".[20]

Jon Pareles of The New York Times stated "What you get from this 18-year-old singer is a big smile, a little voice, gushes of sincerity, hardworking dance routines, shameless advertising and a determination to play both sides of pubescence for all they're worth".[17] Jim Farber of New York Daily News commented that "Despite such spicy bits, the core of Britney's concert suffered from the familiarity and cheesiness of all teen road shows these days. The sparklers, explosions and mandatory flying dancers conformed to the corniness of theme park entertainment".[18] The ticket prices were set at $32 in North America. The reported dates averaged $507,786 in grosses and 15,841 in attendance. Susanne Ault of Billboard also reported that many of the shows sold out in one day.[21] The tour had a total gross of $40.5 million only counting the North American dates.[22] It became the tenth highest-grossing tour of the year in North America, as well as the second highest-grossing tour by a solo artist, only behind Tina Turner's Twenty Four Seven Tour.[23] Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel analyzed Spears to emulate "a lot of Janet Jackson's old concert act and cleaned it up for a younger audience", also noting choreography resembling "Rhythm Nation" precision."[24]

Broadcasts

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On November 30, 2000, the September 20 concert at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans aired on Fox. The special was titled Britney Spears: There's No Place Like Home.[25] One of the shows performed at London Arena was filmed and broadcast by Sky1.[26]

Set list

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  1. "(You Drive Me) Crazy"
  2. "Stronger"
  3. "What U See (Is What U Get)"
  4. "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart"
  5. "Born to Make You Happy"
  6. "Lucky"
  7. "Sometimes"
  8. "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know"
  9. "The Beat Goes On"
  10. "Don't Go Knockin' on My Door"
  11. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
  12. "...Baby One More Time"
Encore
  2. "Oops!... I Did It Again"

Source:[16]

Shows

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List of concerts, showing date, city, country and venue
Date City Country Venue
North America
June 20, 2000 Columbia United States Merriweather Post Pavilion
June 21, 2000 Hartford Meadows Music Theatre
June 23, 2000 Darien Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
June 24, 2000 Hershey Star Pavilion
June 25, 2000 Scranton Coors Light Amphitheatre
June 27, 2000 Wantagh Jones Beach Theater
June 28, 2000
June 29, 2000
June 30, 2000
July 2, 2000 Holmdel PNC Bank Arts Center
July 3, 2000
July 4, 2000 Bristow Nissan Pavilion
July 5, 2000 Camden E-Centre
July 7, 2000 Tinley Park World Music Theatre
July 8, 2000 Milwaukee Marcus Amphitheater
July 9, 2000 Clarkston Pine Knob Music Theatre
July 10, 2000
July 16, 2000 Maryland Heights Riverport Amphitheatre
July 17, 2000 Bonner Springs Sandstone Amphitheater
July 19, 2000 Dallas The Music Centre at Fair Park
July 20, 2000 San Antonio Alamodome
July 21, 2000 The Woodlands Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
July 22, 2000
July 27, 2000 Albuquerque Mesa del Sol
July 28, 2000 Phoenix Blockbuster Desert Sky Pavilion
July 29, 2000 Irvine Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 30, 2000 Inglewood Great Western Forum
July 31, 2000[a]
August 1, 2000 Concord Concord Pavilion
August 3, 2000 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena
August 4, 2000 Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena
August 5, 2000 San Bernardino Blockbuster Pavilion
August 6, 2000 Wheatland Sacramento Valley Amphitheatre
August 8, 2000 Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre
August 10, 2000 Portland Rose Garden
August 11, 2000 George The Gorge Amphitheatre
August 12, 2000 Vancouver Canada General Motors Place
August 14, 2000 Salt Lake City United States Delta Center
August 21, 2000 Burgettstown Post-Gazette Pavilion
August 22, 2000 Toronto Canada Molson Amphitheatre
August 23, 2000 Montreal Molson Centre
August 24, 2000[b] Syracuse United States Empire Expo Center
August 25, 2000 Atlantic City Etess Arena
August 28, 2000 Mansfield Tweeter Center
August 30, 2000 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center
August 31, 2000 Cleveland Gund Arena
September 1, 2000 Knoxville Thompson–Boling Arena
September 2, 2000 Noblesville Deer Creek Music Center
September 3, 2000 Columbus Polaris Amphitheater
September 9, 2000 Orlando TD Waterhouse Centre
September 10, 2000 West Palm Beach Coral Sky Amphitheatre
September 12, 2000 Raleigh Alltel Pavilion
September 13, 2000 Charlotte Blockbuster Pavilion
September 14, 2000 Virginia Beach GTE Virginia Beach Amphitheater
September 15, 2000 Burgettstown Post-Gazette Pavilion
September 17, 2000 Nashville AmSouth Amphitheatre
September 18, 2000 Atlanta Coca-Cola Lakewood Amphitheatre
September 20, 2000 New Orleans Louisiana Superdome
Europe
October 10, 2000 London England Wembley Arena
October 11, 2000
October 12, 2000
October 13, 2000 Manchester Manchester Evening News Arena
October 14, 2000
October 17, 2000 Bremen Germany Stadthalle Bremen
October 18, 2000 Ghent Belgium Flanders Expo
October 19, 2000 Dortmund Germany Westfalenhallen
October 20, 2000 Stuttgart Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
October 22, 2000 Barcelona Spain Palau Sant Jordi
October 24, 2000 Milan Italy FilaForum
October 25, 2000 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion
October 26, 2000 Munich Germany Olympiahalle
October 28, 2000 Kiel Ostseehalle
October 29, 2000 Berlin Velodrom
October 30, 2000 Hanover Preussag Arena
November 1, 2000 Leipzig Mesehalle
November 2, 2000 Frankfurt Festhalle Frankfurt
November 4, 2000 Arnhem Netherlands GelreDome
November 7, 2000 Gothenburg Sweden Scandinavium
November 8, 2000 Oslo Norway Oslo Spektrum
November 9, 2000 Stockholm Sweden Stockholm Globe Arena
November 10, 2000 Copenhagen Denmark Valby-Hallen
November 13, 2000 Cologne Germany Kölnarena
November 14, 2000 Paris France Zénith de Paris
November 15, 2000 London England London Arena
November 16, 2000
November 20, 2000 Birmingham NEC Arena
November 21, 2000
South America[27]
January 18, 2001[c] Rio de Janeiro Brazil City of Rock

Box office score data

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Venue City Tickets sold / available Gross revenue[28]
Hersheypark Stadium Hershey 28,701 / 28,701 (100%) $1,014,096
Jones Beach Theater Wantagh 56,550 / 56,550 (100%) $2,055,861
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion The Woodlands 25,916 / 25,972 (99%) $912,149
Great Western Forum Inglewood 25,756 / 29,000 (89%) $977,849
The Gorge Amphitheatre George 20,000 / 20,000 (100%) $814,630
Coca-Cola Lakewood Amphitheatre Atlanta 18,254 / 18,954 (96%) $596,110
Palau Sant Jordi Barcelona 20,000 / 20,000 (100%) —
Total 195,177 / 199,177 (98%) $6,370,695

Cancelled shows

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List of cancelled concerts, showing date, city, country, and venue
Date City Country Venue Reason
July 26, 2000[29] Morrison United States Red Rocks Amphitheatre Production difficulties[30]

Notes

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  1. ^ The July 31, 2000 concert at Great Western Forum in Inglewood was originally scheduled to take place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
  2. ^ The August 24, 2000 concert at the Empire Expo Center in Syracuse was part of the Great New York State Fair.
  3. ^ The January 18, 2001 concert at the City of Rock in Rio de Janeiro was part of the Rock in Rio.

References

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  29. ^ Tour
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