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On A Night Like This Tour is a Kylie Minogue concert tour in support of her seventh studio album Light Years that began in March 2001. Having hit the headlines around the globe for her hugely successful performance at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, and having subsequently performed again at the opening ceremony of Sydney's Paralympics soon after, Minogue seized the opportunity to announce details of her new tour. It became the fastest-selling concert tour of her career when tickets went on sale that November, and with dozens of sell-out shows, she had succeeded in establishing herself as one of the most in-demand live entertainers. The tour began with a bumpy start, however, when the first show in Dublin, Ireland, scheduled for March 1st, had to be cancelled due to treacherous storms preventing air travel into the country.

Minogue was inspired by the style of Broadway shows such as 42nd Street and films such as Anchors Aweigh, South Pacific and the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals of the 1930s. Describing Bette Midler as a "heroine", she also incorporated some of the "camp and burlesque" elements of Midler's live performances. The show directed and choreographed by Luca Tommassini featured elaborate back-drops such as the deck of an ocean liner, an Art Deco New York City skyline, and the interior of a space ship. Minogue was praised for her new material and her reinterpretations of some of her greatest successes, turning "I Should Be So Lucky" into a torch song and "Better the Devil You Know" into a 1940s big band number.

Set list

1. "Love Boat"
2. "Kookachoo"
3. "Hand on Your Heart"
4. "Put Yourself in My Place"
5. "On a Night Like This"
6. Medley:
   1. "Step Back in Time"
   2. "Never Too Late"
   3. "Wouldn't Change a Thing"
   4. "Turn It into Love"
   5. "Celebration"
7. "Can't Get You out of My Head"
8. "Your Disco Needs You"
9. "I Should Be So Lucky"
10. "Better the Devil You Know"
11. "So Now Goodbye"
12. "Physical"
13. "Butterfly"
14. "Confide in Me"
15. "Kids"
16. "Shocked"
17. "Light Years"
18. Encore:
    1. "What Do I Have to Do?"
    2. "Spinning Around"

Tour dates

Personnel

Producers: Darenote Ltd., Kimberly Ltd. and Tarcoola Touring Company Ltd
Showgirl: Kylie Minogue
Management: Terry Blamey
Creative Director: Willian Baker
Director of Choreography: Luca Tommassini
Assistant Choreographer: Germana Bonaparte
Tour Manager: Sean Fitzpatrick
Production Manager: Steve Martin
Musical Director: Andrew Small
Music Producer: Steve Anderson
Assistant: Leanne Woolrich
Wardrobe: Julien McDonald and Pamela Blundell
Styling: William Baker
Shoes: Manolo Blahnik

Band

Drums: Andrew Small
Percussion: James Mack
Keyboards: Steve Turner
Guitar: James Hayto
Bass: Chris Brown
Backing Vocals: Lurine Cati and Sherina White
Dancers: Milena Mancini, Federica Catalano, Veronica Peparini, Tony Bongiorno, Paolo Sabatini, Ginaluca Frezzato, Christian Scionte and Germana Bonaparte

Kylie: Live in Sydney DVD

Minogue's performance in Sydney, Australia on May 11, 2001 was filmed for DVD entitled, "Kylie: Live in Sydney". The DVD was released on October 1, 2001 in the UK and October 15, 2001 in Australia.

The DVD features exclusive backstage footage of the concert, including a look into the dancers dressing rooms and a prank played on Kylie during the show entitled 'Will Kylie Crack.' The prank consist of stage personal doing random things below the stage where Kylie can see them when she turns to look at the back drop during So Now Goodbye.

References

1. Kylie: Live in Sydney Amazon UK ListingRetrieved May 31, 2008 from Amazon UK
2. Retrieved May 31, 2008 from Warner Music Australia

External links

• Chez Kylie - Concerts - 2001 - On a night like this tour
• "2001 On A Night Like This Tour"
• Kylie Minogue notable Tours-Part 3-On A Night Like This Tour - Kylie Live In Sydney
• On A Night Like This Tour 2001
• ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS 2001
• On A Night Like This Tour 2001
• DVD.net: Kylie-Live in Sydney

• Kylie Minogue concert tours