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[Chula]

Japanese concerts are in the round but Korea end-stage?

[Ronny83]

Céline arrived in Japan yesterday, according to our member S-line from the Italian Section. Japanese media talked about her arrival. Sony BMG Japan uploaded some pics from her arrival here: http://www.sonymusic...ion/m_info.html

[nano]

cool...thanks for the info!!

[VinnyT.]

[CSCfan]

Great pics..thanks!

[kathy4]

great pictures thanks for posting them for us.

[Teodora]

Nice! Hope we'll get bigger ones soon! The concert is tomorrow. Woman's Day  

[René-Charles]

thank you

look of René charles green puma  

[maxceline]

she s sleeping now

[JP]

Wow she looks great!! I'm not use anymore to see Celine travel so much, i feel tired for her..

[Shamrock_1982]

Anyone on the board got sound package tickets for 2morro night?
looking forward to hearing wat it entails

[René 2]

nice pics ! I hope we'll have them in HQ.. lol

[ahmed]

thank you for the pics

[celinevegas]

yeh Celine is ARRIVED  to Japon..     
She is amazing times..

[Ted]

I think the show is starting in 7 or 8 hours.  

[SuperLove4Celine]

Okay, this is killing me, I want the show to start!  LMAO  Maybe when I go to sleep I'll try to get my spirit to leave my body and visit Tokyo and watch the show!  Let's all do that!  Shall we go for it?!  

- Joe

[luciusbright]

the show is on!!!!!!!!!

[kathy4]

what song is she doing now and what does the stage look like?

[kathy4]

can't wait to see the reviews.

[PrincessCéline]

Can't wait to know more about it !!!

[Cheerfuljane]

It's over by now !

I'm dying to hear how it went

[dtomarat]

So, just got back from the Tokyo show.  They made a huge deal about no cameras, even cell phones', and since we were sitting first row with full-time guards staring directly at us, we didn't dare take a camera out.

She was amazing as we thought she would be, we all felt she was in better shape (voice-wise) than in Vegas.  And she seemed a lot more relaxed than Vegas, wonder if the "routine" really got to her toward end of Vegas run.  Japanese audience, in general, tends to be quite polite and shy/quiet at concerts, but she really got a lot of folks up from their seats and dancing (We was very surprised by that), especially folks on the floor section.  One of the staff there said 50,000 people at the concert tonight, so it was absolutely huge.

I Drove All Night, The Power Of Love, "It's All Coming Back To Me Now + Because You Loved Me" combination came straight from Vegas, so did Love Can Move Mountains, River Deep..., My Heart... in terms of melodic and musical arrangement.  She lip-sang a few songs, most people couldn't tell but we could.  Don't blame her one bit, there was just no way she would be able to sing live on all songs and we accepted that fact.

The best part of concert, by far, was All By Myself (live!), right after Eyes On Me.  By the way, we didn't care so much for EOM before, but seeing her sing this live kinda gave me a different perspective on the song and it is sorta growing on me now.  Perhaps the Flamenco dance / music piece definitely helped set the song up really effectively.  Anyway, ABM was just amazing, her singing with a piano.  Right at the climatic ending, the band stopped playing, including piano, and she was just belting out "all by myself.......anymore" phrase.  Every bone in my body felt that, it was just a perfect ending to that song, a great moment for us.

Before the Queen tribute section (fourth part), she sang A World to Believe in with Ito Yuna.  That was amazing, you could tell people were very glad to see both of them on stage together.

Ok, now, the staging.  It was square, right in the middle of the field, with audience facing four sides of the stage.  While I could see benefit of having her in middle of the stadium to allow more people to be "closer" to the stage, it was a pain having only seen her 25% of the time facing us.  She did have to work around all sides and 75% of the time, if we wanted to see her face, we'd have to watch the TV screens.  Anyway, given that we were very close to stage, we didn't want to complain too much about it, but could imagine folks in the back complaining they saw her back more than her front.

Various parts of the stage could be lifted up and down, and it was interesting to see how they were able to have band arranged on all four sides and they would go up and down a few times, while dancers and Celine would work around the stages.  

It was a great night overall and we sure wish those who are going to see her soon will enjoy themselves.  Good Luck.

[Thomas]

Thanks for the review! Shame about them enforcing the camera rule, hopefully we'll get some photos soon so we can check out the stage and see how it all looks.

[Shamrock_1982]

Thanx for the review!
Cant wait for her to arrive in the uk, and she will be rehearsing on the round stage with jamie's help, plus she will have had a month off to rest, so looking forward to the fresh maybe more polished show!!!

btw: was there any special effects/special things to do with the stage, or any new costumes?
And were u impressed by the stage??

[nano]

Thanks for the review!!

[dtomarat]

no special effects like fireworks or anything like that, but as i said, various parts of the square stage could go up and down, and we did see a fair bit of up and down movements throughout the show.  i am sure vdo clips that were used at concert were the same everywhere.  i couldn't have imagined them reediting everything again because the clips were very elaborate and were integral parts of each song.  but they had different levels of screens right in the middle of the stage facing four side....very cleverly done and it looked very imprssive.  folks in the back section probably got to enjoy the clips / screens more than us, as we were toward front so we couldn't be bothered having to look "up" too much, looking staight onto the stage was more interesting to us anyway.

oh, no new costumes...not on our night anyway.

[Thomas]

Edited by Thomas, 08 March 2008 - 11:09 AM.

[nano]

wow..thanks for the pics!

I'd love hear the duet with Ito...

[celinesolomia]

thanks thomas

[jodie19]

Oh my god, she is so fu**g hot, thank you Thomas