Posted September 7, 200816 yr Fanpics: http://www.celinedionforum.com/index.php?s...t&p=1155387 & Here's the set list: (pink dress) I Drove All Night Power of Love Taking Chances It's All Coming Back to Me Now Because You Loved Me To Love You More (black, white, gray dress? with black pants?) Eyes on Me All By Myself (Black shirt, Vest, Black bell bottoms) I'm Alive Shadow of Love Fade Away I'm Your Angel Alone My Love The Prayer PQTME We Will Rock You The Show Must Go On (White dress and leg straps) I Got That Feeling This is a Man's World Love Can Move Mountains (Gold dress) Encore #1 River Deep Mountain High (Black long dress) Encore #2 My Heart Will Go On At the beginning when she did IDAN she said philly are u ok, philly are u ok like the smooth criminal songs from MJ :lol:
September 8, 200816 yr Author Celine Dion brings it, start to finish By Jonathan Valania For The Inquirer Every now and then a voice comes along so strong, so clear, so seemingly inexhaustible that it is heard around the world by the Great Middle - the middle aged, the middle class, and those midway between mom jeans and menopause. This voice contains multitudes: the stormy weather of Hallmarkian heartache; the soaring melodrama of airport romance novels, the soap-operatic narrative arc of not just one, but two Hollywood blockbusters (Titanic, Beauty and the Beast). That voice belongs to Celine Dion, of course, but just about every woman of a certain age thinks it speaks for her. And on Friday night, there was an entire sold-out Wachovia Center's worth of these ladies - in packs of gal pals or trailed by skulking omega males - on hand as the singer performed her first Philly concert in a decade. She seems to have taken her Vegas show, which closed in December, on the road, with an in-the-round stage equipped with all manner of trapdoors, hydraulic lifts and moving sidewalks, and two ramps bridging the divide between the diva and her people; a band worthy of a top-rated late-night talk show; a troupe of eight fleet-footed dancers; and an industrial-size vaporizer steam-heating the arena air to keep the star's throat moist during those notes she holds for an eternity. "Can you believe it's been 10 years?" she asked in the first of many between-song heart-to-hearts with 50,000 of her closest girlfriends. Been a long time, and Celine did not disappoint. From the moment she made her entrance (in a strapless burgundy mini-dress and sky-high heels) to the urgent, boy-are-my-arms-tired strains of "I Drove All Night" to her show-ending second encore - belting out "My Heart Will Go On" in candle-lit brown chiffon while sugarplum visions of Leo and Kate's Titanic love affair danced on the Jumbotron - there was never any doubt. They came for a night of bombastic balladeering and Big Box, relaxed-fit entertainment and Celine Dion, as always, gave her people what they wanted. Her voice is a remarkable instrument. She can hit notes to the rafters and trill like a rare songbird, but she cannot make her songs feel lived in. Her taste in other people's songs is suspect at best (like Freddie Mercury's treacly deathbed hit "The Show Must Go On") and the soul-music medley was the stuff of Super Bowl half times. Even her own hits - nipped and tucked by some of the best song-doctors money can buy - felt like open house at a new subdivision of suburban McMansions: manicured, immaculate and pretty vacant.
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