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million in dollars) | last_tour = Drowned World Tour (2001) | this_tour = Re-Invention World Tour (2004) | next_tour = Confessions Tour (2006) }} Re-Invention World Tour was the sixth concert tour by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It supported her ninth studio album ''American Life'' and visited North America and Europe. Madonna was inspired to create the tour, after taking part in an art installation called X-STaTIC PRo=CeSS, directed by photographer Steven Klein. She incorporated the images from the installation in the tour, whose name was in reality a dig at Madonna's critics. A number of songs were rehearsed for the tour, with twenty-four of them making the final setlist. The tour was divided into five segments: ''French Baroque-Marie Antoinette'' Revival, ''Military-Army'', ''Circus-Cabaret'', ''Acoustic'' and ''Scottish-Tribal''. The costumes were developed by designer Arianne Phillips based on the concept of re-invention. The opening segment displayed performances with dance in general. ''Military'' segment displayed performances with the theme of warfare. ''Circus'' displayed light-hearted performances while the ''Acoustic'' segment performances were melancholy. The final ''Scottish'' segment had Madonna and her performers display energetic dance routines. The tour garnered positive reception from contemporary critics. However, fellow singer Elton John accused Madonna of lip-synching on the tour. Madonna's representatives denied the allegations and John later apologized. Re-Invention Tour was a commercial success. Tickets were completely sold as soon as dates and venues for the tour were announced, prompting the organizers to add more dates. After it wrapped up, the tour was named as the highest grossing tour of 2004, earning US $125 million ($ million in dollars) from 56 shows with 900,000 fans. It won the Top Tour award as part of the 2004 Billboard Touring Awards. The tour was chronicled in a documentary titled ''I'm Going to Tell You a Secret''. A CD+DVD was also released along with the film. == Background == The Re-Invention World Tour was Madonna's sixth concert tour in support of her ninth studio album ''American Life''. In 2003, Madonna collaborated with photographer Steven Klein for an art installation project called ''X-STaTIC Pro=CeSS''. The installation portrayed Madonna in different incarnations of her spiritual practices – from yogi, prophet, queen to freak and pole dancer. The publication was a worldwide success, leading to a number of exhibitions in New York, London, Paris, Düsseldorf, Berlin and Florence. After the exhibition was over, Madonna was inspired by the images from the exhibitions and decided to incorporate them into her then unplanned tour and asked Klein to help her with the task. The poster released for the tour used one of the images from the installation project. It featured Madonna in a seventeenth century style dress, crawling on all fours towards the camera.〔 Klein later commented that,
The main intention of the tour was to transform Madonna's old hits musically and display her capacity for transformation and self-reflection. The tour was initially known as the Whore of Babylon World Tour, although Madonna later denied using this name. The idea was to portray Madonna as the Whore of Babylon, the figure of evil as mentioned in the Book of Revelation. However it was later changed to the Re-Invention World Tour, to make it a self-confident dig at all the critics and people who have expressed their views about Madonna re-inventing her image over the years. The official tour poster displayed Madonna in a vintage bolero gown and a large French Renaissance-like hair-bun. Air-conditioning was turned off during the tour on Madonna's request as she claimed it dried up her throat during singing.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Re-Invention World Tour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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