Mary J Blige Is Gearing Up To Tour….
Mary is gearing up to tour The United States, Japan, and Europe beginning in February, 2002.
Presented by MTV, the U.S. dates will be a short month-long tour beginning February 5, and will be followed by a more extensive tour this summer. During the U.S. tour, will be aproximatey 25 dates in Japan and across Europe beginning in mid-March.
“Going on tour and performing live is just as important to me as going into the studio and making an album,” says Blige. “Giving my fans a live Mary show is not only for them, but for me. Having them there to cheer me on is what doing a tour is all about.”
Tickets have just gone on sale for shows in New York and Boston, and concerts in Washington, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Houston, Poughkeepsie and Toronto are all scheduled to go on sale this weekend through Ticketmaster.
The routing (subject to changes and additions) is as follows:
February
5 Albany, NY Palace Theater
6 Boston, MA Orpheum Theater
8 Washington, DC DAR Constitution Hall
10 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall
11 New York, NY Radio City Music Hall
13 Detroit, MI Fox Theater
14 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theater
15 Chicago, IL Auditorium Theater
18 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Sears Theater
19 Philadelphia, PA Tower Theater
22 Houston, TX Astrodome (Houston Rodeo)
23 Dallas, TX Bronco Bowl
28 Oakland, CA Paramount Theater
March
1 San Diego, CA Copley Symphony Hall
2 Las Vegas, NV Aladdin
3 Tempe, AZ Gammage Theater
6 Los Angeles, CA Shrine Auditorium
13 Tokyo, Japan Kokusai Forum Hall
14 Tokyo, Japan Sun Palace
16 Osaka, Japan Kosei Nenkin Hall
17 Osaka, Japan Kosei Nenkin Hall
18 Fukuoca, Japan Sun Palace
20 Nagoya, Japan Kokukaido
22 Sendai, Japan Sendai Sun Plaza Hall
April
1 Copenhagen, Denmark Valby
2 Copenhagen, Denmark Valby
3 Stockholm, Sweden Globe
5 Hamburg, Germany CCH
6 Cologne, Germany Palladium
7 Rotterdam, Netherlands Ahoy
8 Brussells, Belgium Forest National
10 Paris, France Le Bercy
11 Stuttgart, Germany Liderhalle
12 Berlin, Germany Columbia Halle
14 Vienna, Austria Bank Austria Halle
15 Munich, Germany Coliseum
16 Milan, Italy Alcatraz
17 Zurich, Switzerland Hallenstaion
19 Birmingham, England NEC
20 Manchester, England Evening News Arena
23 London, England Wembley Arena
25 Dublin, England RDS Main Hall
Summer Tour: TBA