Year: 2 March 2004 - 6 June 2004;
Countries: South and North America, United Kingdom, Nitherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Ireland;
Dancers: 9;
Costume Changes: 9;
Shows: 54;
Lengh: 90 minutes;
Tickets Price: $40-75.
Set List:
01. "Toxic";
02. "Overprotected";
03. "Boys";
04. "Showdown";
05. Video Interlude: Mystic Lounge;
06. "...Baby One More Time";
07. "Oops!...I Did It Again";
08. "(You Drive Me) Crazy";
09. Video Interlude: Mysic Garden;
10. "Everytime";
11. "The Hook Up";
12. "I'm A Slave 4 U";
13. Video Interlude: The Onyx Zone;
14. "Shadow";
15. Video Interlude: Hotel Security Cameras;
16. "Touch Of My Hand";
17. "Breathe On Me";
18. "Outrageous";
19. Interlude: Drunken MC;
20. "(I Got That) Boom Boom";
21. "Me Against The Music".
Tour Dates
March 2, 2004 - San Diego, California;
March 3, 2004 - Glendale, Arizona;
March 5, 2004 - Fresno, California;
March 6, 2004 - Las Vegas, Nevada;
March 8, 2004 - Los Angeles, California;
March 9, 2004 - Oakland, California;
March 11, 2004 - Portland, Oregon;
March 12, 2004 - Seattle, Washington;
March 15, 2004 - Denver, Colorado;
March 17, 2004 - Omaha, Nebraska;
March 18, 2004 - Moline, Illinois;
March 19, 2004 - Rosemont, Illinois (postponed);
March 21, 2004 - Auburn Hills, Michigan (postponed);
March 23, 2004 - Atlanta, Georgia;
March 24, 2004 - Columbia, South Carolina;
March 25, 2004 - Jacksonville, Florida;
March 28, 2004 - Miami, Florida;
March 29, 2004 - Orlando, Florida;
March 31, 2004 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
April 1, 2004 - Cleveland, Ohio;
April 3, 2004 - Toronto, Ontario;
April 4, 2004 - Montreal, Quebec;
April 6, 2004 - Manchester, New Hampshire;
April 8, 2004 - Providence, Rhode Island;
April 9, 2004 - Trenton, New Jersey;
April 10, 2004 - East Rutherford, New Jersey;
April 13, 2004 - Rosemont, Illinois;
April 14, 2004 - Auburn Hills, Michigan;
April 26, 2004 - London, United Kingdom;
April 27, 2004 - London, United Kingdom;
April 29, 2004 - Glasgow, United Kingdom;
April 30, 2004 - Glasgow, United Kingdom;
May 1, 2004 - Manchester, United Kingdom;
May 3, 2004 - London, United Kingdom;
May 4, 2004 - London, United Kingdom;
May 5, 2004 - Birmingham, United Kingdom;
May 7, 2004 - Rotterdam, Netherlands;
May 9, 2004 - Copenhagen, Denmark;
May 10, 2004 - Oslo, Norway;
May 11, 2004 - Stockholm, Sweden;
May 14, 2004 - Frankfurt, Germany;
May 15, 2004 - Hamburg, Germany;
May 16, 2004 - Berlin, Germany;
May 18, 2004 - Lyon, France ;
May 19, 2004 - Milan, Italy;
May 20, 2004 - Zurich, Switzerland;
May 22, 2004 - Vienna, Austria;
May 23, 2004 - Budapest, Hungary;
May 25, 2004 - Munich, Germany;
May 26, 2004 - Riesa, Germany;
May 28, 2004 - Oberhausen, Germany;
May 29, 2004 - Ghent, Belgium;
May 30, 2004 - Paris, France;
June 1, 2004 - Belfast, United Kingdom;
June 2, 2004 - Dublin, Ireland;
June 3, 2004 - Dublin, Ireland;
June 5, 2004 - Lisbon, Portugal;
June 6, 2004 - Dublin, Ireland.
An "onyx" by definition is a precious black gemstone that emits various colors of light depending on the light you shine into it. The ONYX HOTEL is a unique, mysterious hotel powered by an onyx stone. Each guest who enters this hotel shines their own light into the onyx, and in return, makes their fantasies come to life. It's a vibrant, whimsical place where wondrous dreams are realized, and the darkest of secrets are revealed.
Britney Spears' Onyx Hotel Tour made good on its promised titillation with lingerie and bump 'n' grind gyrations - again and again and again. The singer's set list mostly contained songs from "In The Zone," with only a handful of older songs making the cut. Among those were "Boys," "Overprotected" and a jazzy and bluesy medley mix of "Oops! ... I Did It Again" and "... Baby One More Time" that had a cabaret feel.
Adding to the theater atmosphere was a rotund MC, who welcomed fans to the "Onyx Hotel". The stage production took a few cues from Broadway musicals based on events in the 1930s but modernized the look with crashing chandeliers and a few explosions. As for Spears, she and her dancers are attired in much more modern dress, including a practically sewn-on rubberlike outfit that covers just about everything except for a large open area from her bust to her neck. Her dancers opted for more comfortable looking but seemingly exotic wear, with touches of kimono and camouflage clothing. The "more adult" hotel theme was inspired by having to travel so much.
"I would love my audience to walk out of the auditorium feeling like they had the most magical experience of their life. The onyx stone is kind of symbolic of what guides me in my life, like there's a bigger picture in everything, and there's something that guides you where you need to go, from point A to point B," Britney said. "I really think I'm talking to everyone when I perform 'Everytime'. It's about heartbreak, it's about your first love, your first true love. That's something all people can relate to, because you all have that first love that you think you're going to be with the rest of your life," she said of the ballad.
The show started with her hit "Toxic". Wearing the tight black bodysuit Spears led her eight dancers around the stage, up and down the silver platform, and into the second song, "Overprotected", before taking a break to say hello to the crowd. "Goodness," she said in a Louisiana drawl. "What's up?" While she was making small talk, her male dancers were backstage changing into leather pants, backward suspenders over bare chests and bellboy hats for a "Boys" number in which they wheeled the girls around on luggage trolleys. It would be one of the points in the show when the "hotel" part of the theme was clear.
The night's first video clip featured Britney following a mysterious woman down an alley, where she was shown the way to a place called the Mystic Lounge. Spears' band then kicked into lounge mode, performing a subdued jazzy medley of "... Baby One More Time" and "Oops! ... I Did It Again". Carrying a microphone with a bullwhip attached to it, Spears came out wearing frilly pink lingerie with a black corset-like midsection and black stockings.
Her backup dancers, mixing undergarments with fedoras a la "Cabaret," did her "Stronger" video one better by lining up silver chairs for Britney to walk on and systematically moving the last chair to the front of the line until she'd made it across the stage.
Out of breath and quite sweaty Britney paused after "(You Drive Me) Crazy" to joke, "There's a lot of cute guys here. Who knows, maybe if you're really lucky I might marry you." She would touch on her quickie marriage again moments later after changing into a short, rainbow-colored dress and sitting down at a flower-covered piano for her upcoming single "Everytime." "I don't know if you guys know what's been going on with me, if you read the press," she said. "The past six months have been like a roller coaster with a lot of ups and a lot of downs... But everything we experience makes us realize how beautiful life can really be."
A few songs later came In the Zone's other ballad, "Shadow," and the night's most impressive dance move. With Britney sitting on a swing, long strands of cloth draped on either side of her were raised up to reveal a pair of dancers in nude-colored body stockings. The men crawled their way up, wrapping themselves in the cloth as they climbed ever higher above the stage, and once they reached the top they let go and went unraveling downward, stopping themselves just before gravity made ex-dancers out of them.
The thrills only increased as the video setting up "Touch of My Hand" appeared, in which Britney was shown lounging on a bed before blowing out some candles, letting her bathrobe drop to the floor and getting into a tub filled with bubbles and rose petals. The crowd erupted when she performed the same disrobing onstage, revealing the diamond suit from her "Toxic" video. As her dancers stripped themselves and each other down to their underwear, Britney sent the crowd into an even bigger frenzy by enjoying, well, the touch of her hands...
Britney dressed in a pink bra and panties was laying in bed for her "Breathe on Me" performance. Spears cavorted on one of the stage's two beds with a male dancer, thrashing her sizable blonde mane to and fro. With everyone already dressed like Frederick's of Hollywood mannequins, it was the perfect time to slip on trench coats for the R. Kelly-penned "Outrageous".
But a freak show of another kind colored the finale, "(I Got That) Boom Boom". Since the Ying Yang Twins weren't there to give the song its Dirty South flavor, Britney went for the next best thing — Mardi Gras. Tossing out bead necklaces and shooting confetti cannons, Spears thanked the crowd twice and said goodnight.
Red lights flashed as sirens blared and warned of a "system malfunction." "Matrix"-like green graphics scrawled vertically on monitors. Then as flames burst, Britney walked out in a red pantsuit for Rishi Rich's Desi Kulcha remix of "Me Against the Music," eventually taking off the jacket to reveal a shiny red bustier but performing one of the more straightforward numbers of the night.
Opening acts of the tour were Kelis, Wicked Wisdom, JC Chasez, Skye Sweetnam. Britney performed at the Rock In Rio Festival in on June 5th. 37 American tour dates, 4 Asian tour dates and 12 Australian tour dates were cancelled because of knee injury.
Dancers
Leo Moctezuma
Leo was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1980. At the age of 13, Leo had the opportunity to move to Oahu, Hawaii where he completed his high school education. It was there that he discovered his innate love for the arts. Leo began his extensive dance training as a member of the well known professional dance company, "24-VII Dance force".
Leo has been blessed to be a part of many of the most anticipated tours of all time such as Kristine W's "Stronger"Club Tour, Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca" world tour, Britney Spears' "Dream Within A Dream" world tour, Paulina Rubio's "Border Girl" promo tour, and featured as the "Man In The Box" on Christina Aguilera's "Stripped" world tour. This Latin Lover's most recent tour has been Britney Spears' highly publicized "Onyx Hotel" world tour where he was featured in a seductive duet with Britney herself.
With Britney Leo worked on:
- "Overprotected" video;
- "I'm A Slave 4 U" video;
- "Me Against The Music" video.
Leo has also been living up to the term "Triple Threat" by being an original cast member in two musicals both premiering in Hollywood, California. "The Ten Commandments" featuring Val Kilmer as Moses in 2004, and a rocking 80's musical, "Rock Of Ages" in 2005 and 2006. Leo also is a part of the original cast of "The Zodiac Party" which he choreographs and performs in each year. Earlier in 2006, Leo was blessed with the opportunity to assist RJ Durrel as an assistant choreographer on Madonna's "Confessions" world tour. He has just finished up assisting the Talauega brothers on choreography for Pink's upcoming European leg of the "I'm Not Dead" tour, as well as singing for the first time, "Dance With Me" written by Kyle Puccia in front of the "Zodiac Party" audience with a standing ovation.
Leo can bee seen in several Blockbuster movies, such as "Austin Powers: Goldmember", "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle", "From Justin To Kelly", Rob Schnider's movie, "Big Stan" and the highly anticipated release of the new "Dreamgirls" movie starring Beyonce Knowles.
He is currently working on artist development and choreography for some great new artists such as Kristine W, Guy B, Limp Wristed, and Melissa G to name a few.
Brooke Lipton Godineauz
Brooke has performed with Madonna, Lenny Kravitz, Chaka Khan, Pink, Jewel, Beyonce, Queen Latifah. Her TV and film credits include "The Late Shaw", "Oprah", "American Juniors", "From Justin to Kelly" (2003), "Roller Ball" and "Vanilla Sky".
Brooke has toured with Britney Spears in the "Dream Within a Dream" tour and her "Onyx Hotel" tour, and also appeared in Britney's videos:
- "Overprotected";
- "Anticipating";
Currently she is teaching at "Tremaine Dance Force" and "Dance Academy USA".
Teresa Espinosa
"I live in dancer world. All I do is dance. I practice it. Teach it. Create it. Dream it. Talk about it. Live it... I need a hobby!"
Teresa was born in 1974. She attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts in East Dallas. She received her Bachelor Degree at he California Institute Of The Arts and started dancing.
Teresa worked with many people, including Britney Spears. She appeared in "Me Against The Music" video and "Onyx Hotel" tour.
She also worked for Janet Jackson ("The Velvet Rope" tour), Toni Braxton, Missy Elliott , P!nk ("Stupid Girls"), Youngstown ("I'll Be Your Everything"), Jump 5, Sandy & Jr, Mariah Carey, MYA, No Secrets, Will Smith, Miller Beer , Tyrese ("Criminal Mind"), Eve and Gwen Stefani, Rihanna, Nike, Ashlee Simpson , Miley Cyrus, Shania Twain, Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez ("If You Had My Love"). She appeared in Nike, Sprite and Adidas commercials.
Currently she is working in the first ever full theatrical dance show "Eve".
Kevin Wilson
Kevin is a professional dancer. He took part in Britney Spears' world tour "Onyx Hotel" and appeared in her unreleased video "Outrageous."
There are no any other details about this dancer.
Sunny Walters
Sunny is a sexy dancer, who took part in Britney Spears' "Onyx Hotel" tour in 2004 and appeared in the unreleased video "Outrageous"
There are no any other details about this dancer.
Blake McGrat
Blake was born on November 21, 1983. He has already achieved so much in his career.
Blake is a former Showstopper winner, and has moved on to a professional dance career. He has accomplished so much since his days with Showstopper. Some of Blake's accomplishments are: Signing a two year contract with Janet Jackson for videos and her 2006 World Tour, appearing in October 2006 on the reality TV show "Dancelife" produced by Jennifer Lopez on MTV, appearance with Janet Jackson on the "Oprah" show on September 26th 2006, a finalist on the first season of "So You Think You Can Dance" in 2005, appearance in the movie "Rent" in 2005, appearance in the movie "Chicago", and appearance on the cover of Dance Spirit Magazine in December 2006. He was a semi-finalist of "Star Search" in 2003.
Blake worked with Britney on her "Onyx Hotel" tour.
Antony Caroza
There is not so much information about Antony.
He worked with Britney Spears on her "Onyx Hotel" tour and appeared in her "Outrageous" unreleased video.
There are no any other details about this dancer.
Rino Nakasone
Rino Nakasone was born the 11 June 1979 in Naha on the island of Okinawa in Japan. At the age of 19, she lived Japan and came to America to purpose her dream - dancing.
She worked with Marques Houston, Mary J Blige, Missy Elliott, Britney Spears. She always wanted to dance for Janet Jackson, and was offered to dance at her "Super Bowl" in 2004, but at the same time Britney Spears offered her to dance in her "Onyx Hotel" tour. Janet encouraged her to dance with Britney because "Super Bowl" had only one date, and Rino followed her advice.
She was assisting choreography in unreleased "Outrageous" video, appeared in "Me Against The Music" video.
She also danced for Billy Crawford, she was in tour with Gwen Stefani. Right now she is concentrated on her singing career.
Rino appeared in "You Got Served" movie and in Disney TV show "That's So Raven".
Claire Kutsko
There is not so much information about Claire.
She took part in Britney's "Onyx Hotel" tour in 2004, and appeared in the video "Do Somethin'"
Claire was a performer for the game "Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 3" in 2005.
There are no any other details about this dancer.
