This is Janet Jackson wearing a very fine garment, although one must continue looking at it to see if it has been ironed. Regardless, Ms. Janet (if you're nasty) just announced her North American dates on her up close and personal tour, one which sees her do nothing but Number One hits.
Perhaps the biggest aspect of this tour is how small it really is. Jackson is only doing 35 dates total around the world for the tour, which is basically less than she might do on one North American leg of a previous tour. The tour has a lone Canadian stop in Toronto in early March, but the venue is not the Air Canada Centre. No, it is in fact the Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, a nice and acoustically friendly venue but one which has perhaps 1/5th the amount of seating as the arena.
Whether it's because Jackson wanted to go smaller this time around or the fact she was having a hard time selling out bigger venues is unclear. What is evident though is that the pricing for these venues will be a very shiny penny or a hefty piggy bank. When two recent tribute shows were going from $75 on the low end to just over $100 on the high end at the Sony Centre, one can only imagine that the cheap seats for this tour will start around $150 and go up from there.
With less in terms of a production, it means a bit more will go into the coffers of Janet Jackson. Perhaps she has finally realized that choreography isn't the end all and be all for a concert.
No word on whether a VIP pass comes with a flashing of a nipple. Stay tuned.
UPDATE: The prices have been announced for the Toronto show, with the cheapest being a relatively surprising $70, the highest price tops off at $150. So, to sum up, it is rather affordable given an age where the Stones, Eagles or McCartney would easily charge you two to three times that amount.
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