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 After
Madonna's 1985 The
Virgin Tour, which took her to the biggest citites
in North America and Canada, this is Madonna's very first
full-blown world tour which had her visiting cities in
North America, Canada, Asia and Europe. |
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'The
Who's That Girl World Tour' was - in 1987 - the biggest
and highest-grossing tour ever. In total Madonna grossed
approx. US$ 20 million on this tour (she
grossed over a half million dollars for every date she
played).
This record was broken by no one else than Michael Jackson:
According to several sources his 1988 'Bad' Tour
is the biggest concert-tour ever and grossed over US$
125 million. |
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In
comparison to 'The Who's That Girl Tour', Madonna's
first 'The Virgin Tour' looks like a simple pop-show:
There was still a lot of sex in 'The Who's That Girl
Tour' but this time Madonna also had a message.
Seveal times during the show the gigantic video-screens
were used to make comments on society and religion (The
Pope and then-President of the United States Ronald Reagan)
and sexuality ('Safe Sex'). |
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| Madonna
has 7 costume changes during the show. All the costumes,
from the 'Open Your Heart' opening-number bustier
to the Andy Warhol-inspired jacket, were designed by Marlene
Stewart. |
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In
Japan, a thousand troops had to restrain a crowd of 25'000
fans seeking to greet Madonna at the airport.
When severe storms forced the cencellation of her first
shows, despondent fans nearly rioted, and Madonna was
confronted with out-of-control teenagers soaking themselves
in the rain outside the stadium. Promoters had no choice
but to refund US$ 7 million to ticket-buyers. |
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| Madonna's
Madison Square Garden-show in New York City was an AIDS
benefit with all the proceeds from the show going to AmFAR.
She dedicated her performance of 'Live To Tell'
to her late friend Martin Burgoyne (the designer of the
single-artwork for Madonna's Burning
Up-Single).. |
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| Her
first 2 shows at Wembley Stadium in London, UK sold out
at a then record-breaking time of 18 hours and 9 minutes
(144'000 tickets). |
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Just
like on 'The Virgin Tour', Madonna once again used
another classic song as an interlude during her performance
of 'Like A Virgin'. This time it was a short segment
of 'I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) '
by The Four Tops.
Rumours in the late '80s even suggested that Madonna considered
to record the song on her own but instead she used a few
inspirational parts of it for her Who's
That Girl soundtrack-song 'Can't Stop'. |
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| Joining
her on the tour was 16-year old Christopher Finch. He
replaced Felix Howard, the boy from the Open
Your Heart-Video, who didn't got a working permit
in order to participate on the tour. |
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