Mariah downsizes tour
Mariah Carey is not doing a stadium tour this spring after all. Instead, she's got a surprise planned: a major tour of smaller theatres like New York's Beacon and Boston's Orpheum come this fall. And it's not like she can't fill Madison Square Garden-sized rooms. Promoters were already laying out a schedule for around the country that consisted only of arenas. But Carey told me she knew it was a mistake.
"My voice is very delicate," said the owner of an eight-octave range. "I wanted this to be about the music, not a Broadway type show. And," she added, "I didn't want to be moving around quickly from city to city. I wanted to stay planted in a city as long as I could."
Carey calls this tour her first "Unplugged" performances. "Somehow, and we're not going to say how yet, the fans will have a chance to request songs. It's hard to choose because I have 14 number ones and you can't leave them out. But a fan told me recently she loved 'Close My Eyes', which is more obscure. So I want to include some of them as well. I know that my favorite kind of show is like going to see Prince in a small club. I want these shows to be like that, very loose and spontaneous."
Right now Mariah is planted in a very nice spot in the Caribbean (I'm sworn to secrecy but I can tell you it's not St. Bart's). She's taking a short break after recording four new songs for the re-release of her Charmbracelet album. "It's got four new tracks. I've recorded with Da Brat, a reggae group called Elephant Man, Se7en, and I'll have my single with Busta Rhymes."
Carey did the recordings in Miami, where she bumped into Ashanti, Missy Elliott, and Irv Gotti at the studio. "And that's why I record in Capri usually. I don't like getting dressed up and wearing makeup. I like to go in my pajamas, but you can't do that in Miami!" (Fox 411)
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