On a Night Like This (concert tour)


On a Night Like This was the sixth concert tour by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue, in support of her seventh studio album, Light Years. The tour began on 3 March 2001 at the Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow, Scotland, and concluded on 15 May 2001 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney, Australia, with both the Europe and Australia legs consisting of 23 shows each.
After the success of Minogue's performances at the closing ceremonies of 2000 Sydney Olympics and in the opening ceremony of the Paralympics days after, details of the tour were announced. Tickets went on sale in November of the same year, establishing her as one of the most in-demand live entertainers at the time. However, the tour began problematically, when the opening night at the RDS Arena in Dublin, Ireland on 1 March 2001, was cancelled due to air traffic control restrictions.

Background

Minogue was inspired by the style of Broadway shows such as 42nd Street and films such as Anchors Aweigh, South Pacific and the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals of the 1930s. Describing Bette Midler as a "heroine", she also incorporated some of the "camp and burlesque" elements of Midler's live performances. The show directed and choreographed by Luca Tommassini featured elaborate back-drops such as the deck of an ocean liner, an Art Deco New York City skyline, and the interior of a space ship. Minogue was praised for her new material and her reinterpretations of some of her greatest successes, turning "I Should Be So Lucky" into a torch song and "Better the Devil You Know" into a 1940s big band number.

Opening act

Act I
  1. "Loveboat"
  2. "Koocachoo"
  3. "Hand on Your Heart"
  4. "Put Yourself in My Place"
Act II
  2. "On a Night Like This"
  3. "Step Back in Time" / "Never Too Late" / "Wouldn't Change a Thing" / "Turn It into Love" / "Celebration"
  4. "Can't Get You Out of My Head"
  5. "Your Disco Needs You"
Act III
  2. "I Should Be So Lucky"
  3. "Better the Devil You Know"
  4. "So Now Goodbye"
Act IV
  2. "Physical"
Act V
  2. "Butterfly"
  3. "Confide in Me"
  4. "Kids"
  5. "Shocked"
Act VI
  2. "Light Years"
  3. "What Do I Have to Do"
Encore
  2. "Spinning Around"

    Tour dates

Cancelled shows

Broadcasts and recordings

Minogue's performance in Sydney, Australia, on 11 May 2001 was filmed for DVD entitled, Live in Sydney. The DVD was released on 1 October 2001 in the UK and 15 October 2001 in Australia.
The DVD features exclusive backstage footage of the concert, including a look into the dancers' dressing rooms and a prank played on Kylie during the show entitled 'Will Kylie Crack'. The prank consists of stage personnel doing random things below the stage where Kylie can see them when she turns to look at the backdrop during "So Now Goodbye".

Personnel

Musicians
Dancers