Rainbow World Tour

Rainbow World Tour
The tourbook of Mariah Carey's Rainbow World Tour
Tour by Mariah Carey
Associated album	Rainbow
Start date	February 14, 2000
End date	April 18, 2000
Legs	3
Shows	6 in Europe 4 in Asia 9 in North America 19 in total
Mariah Carey tour chronology
Butterfly World Tour (1998) Rainbow World Tour (2000) Charmbracelet World Tour (2003-2004)

The Rainbow World Tour was a worldwide arena concert tour in the year 2000 by American R&B artist Mariah Carey.

History

Carey had released her ninth album Rainbow in November 1999 and decided to go on tour to promote it. Unlike her previous outing, the Butterfly World Tour, marked Carey's first tour in the U.S. in 7 years since her 1993 Music Box Tour garnered a flurry of bad initial reviews. In addition to visiting more European countries, Carey also visited Singapore for the first time.

The tour grossed $17 million from the North American dates alone, according to Billboard. Critical reaction was mixed at best, especially in the United States. Of the debut American performance at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Variety said: "Mariah Carey's show begs for either simplicity or coherency."^[1] Of the United Center performance, and reflecting that this was the first time Mariah was scantily clad touring, The Chicago Sun-Times said that Carey had "been transformed from a wannabe Whitney to a wannabe Britney," and called her approach to concert performance "difficult to fathom" considering she was "the only artist to have scored a No. 1 hit in every year of the '90s, selling some 125 million records worldwide."^[2]

The final three dates of the tour were pushed back a bit (Boston from April 4 to April 13, for example) after Carey got food poisoning from eating raw oysters after the concert in Atlanta.^[3]

The show

During this tour, Carey debuted new songs from the Rainbow album such as: "Can't Take That Away (Mariah's Theme)", "Heartbreaker", "Thank God I Found You" and much more, including some of her biggest hits.

Once again, longtime friend Trey Lorenz was featured as a backup singer.

The Toronto concert was filmed and scheduled to air on the U.S. television, but that never happened. Carey even mentioned during the show it was being filmed.

Missy Elliott made a special appearance at the New York show during Heartbreaker.

Set list

Additional songs

1. "Sweetheart" (Belgium only)
2. "I Still Believe/Pure Imagination" (Damizza Reemix) (Singapore and Los Angeles only)

Tour dates

Tour itinerary for the European and Asian legs

Personnel

• Vernon Black
• Eric Daniels - keyboards
• Sam Simms
• Gregory Gonaway
• Marco Oliveria
• Michael McKnight
• Trey Lorenz - backing and featured vocals
• Melonie Daniels - backing vocals
• MaryAnn Tatum - backing vocals
• Tracy Harris

References