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After the news about the "Shania: Still the One" Vegas show rehearsals[/b] came out, it was announced that Shania Twain's Shania Kids Can Charity will be holding a fundraiser on December 1, 2012 - the same day as Shania's first Vegas show. Here are the details for the Shania Kids Can Fundraiser:Shania Fans CAN support Shania Kids CanPublic Event · By Shania Kids CanDate: Saturday, December 1, 2012Time: 9:00pm until 11:00pm in EST Come CELEBRATE Shania's foundation Shania Kids Can following the debut performance of SHANIA: Still The One after her first show in Vegas. Shania herself will host this special after-party and fundraising event for her most dedicated fans. This once-in-a-lifetime event will showcase the passion and charitable efforts of Shania and give fans a better understanding of the SKC Clubhouse that Shania has created for kids based on her own personal experiences and on what she understands kids will need in order to cope with the challenges they may be encountering. Come learn how you can become involved in the efforts of Shania Kids Can while enjoying complimentary hors d'oeuvres and an open bar while mingling with Shania's band members. Additionally there will be a silent auction of one-of-a kind Shania Twain memorabilia and collectibles. Auction winners will receive a personalized autograph and a photo with Shania. Follow this link to the Shania Kids Can Facebook page to preview the items that will be available. (www.facebook.com/shaniakidscan) Shania fans “Can” help Shania Kids Can succeed and this is a great way to get involved and learn more about this amazing organization from Shania herself! Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Shania speak about her foundation and what it means to her, and to the kids. A very limited number of tickets are available for this once-in-a-lifetime event so act fast. We can’t wait to see you there! Event: Shania Fans CAN support Shania Kids Can Date: December 1st, 2012 Location: Caesars Palace Las Vegas Hotel and Casino - Roman Ballroom Time: 9-11 p.m. (directly following her show) Cost: $190 USD or CAD. A portion of the ticket is tax deductible. Ticket required for entrance.Our Canadian Fans can purchase tickets here: skcafterparty-canada.whindo.com/
Our USA and Overseas Fans can purchase tickets here: skcafterparty-usa-overseas.whindo.com/
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Post by ALΞX on Oct 25, 2012 23:59:42 GMT -5
I cannot wait until March! I have tickets to see her. When are your tickets for? My family and I are going see her on my sisters birthday in March. My sister & I have the "You're Still The One" vip tickets March 23rd :)
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Oct 29, 2012 19:40:42 GMT -5
When are your tickets for? My family and I are going see her on my sisters birthday in March. My sister & I have the "You're Still The One" vip tickets March 23rd :) Awesome, I'll be at the next night. lol
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Shania Twain’s ‘Come on Over’ Turns 15By: Billy Dukes | Yesterday Mercury Nashville It’s not an overstatement to say Shania Twain‘s ‘Come on Over’ album is the most successful country album ever. It has sold over 40 million copies worldwide after separate versions were released in Europe. Twain spent over 50 weeks at No. 1 on the Country Album charts. Valid criticisms that she stretched too far pop to be a true country star on ‘Come on Over’ don’t hold up when one counts the 11 (yes 11!) songs that charted on country radio, including three that went to No. 1. This historic album celebrates its 15th anniversary today (Nov. 4, 2012). The most recognizable songs fans will still find on radio today include ‘You’re Still the One,’ ‘From This Moment,’ ‘That Don’t Impress Me Much’ and ‘Man! I Feel Like a Woman.’ Twain really only released three successful studio albums during her career, a fact that seems impossible given the influence she had and the impression she left. Credit ‘Come on Over’ for the illusion that she recorded more than she actually did. Of course, her husband, Robert “Mutt” Lange, produced this and all of her albums. Reviewers both praised and criticized his slick sound, often in the same review. Yes, the fiddles were synthesized and machines seemed to replace humans at every opportunity, but he did it really, really well. The sexy singer embraced this style and made it more than acceptable to sell her good looks along with the music. Traditionalists were furious. But an album that sells 40 million copies — plus millions of singles — is beyond reproach. Source
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Shania Twain makes horseback arrival down Las Vegas strip to begin two-year headline gig at Caesars PalacePromoters called the event a stampede, but hooves were kept to a steady, slow gait by nine wranglers who escorted Twain to a reception crowd of several hundred people in front of the famous Caesars fountains. Shania Twain celebrates her Caesars Palace arrival with a horse stampede down Las Vegas Blvd on Wednesday. LAS VEGAS -- Country music star Shania Twain arrived on horseback Wednesday for a two-year headline gig at Caesars Palace, parading up the Las Vegas Strip with a herd of 40 horses. Promoters called the event a stampede, but hooves were kept to a steady, slow gait by nine wranglers who escorted Twain to a reception crowd of several hundred people in front of the famous Caesars fountains. Dozens more people watched from the sidewalk of the Flamingo resort across Las Vegas Boulevard. "We could either lose a few hundred dollars inside or come out and see what kind of spectacle she puts on," said Steve Huffman, a UPS manager from Charleston, W.Va., who watched with his wife, Debi, from an overhead pedestrian walkway. The couple was in town for his 52nd birthday and learned through a Twitter message that Twain planned to arrive on a horse. They identified Twain's hit, "Man, I Feel Like a Woman," as the country singer rode up the street, and they said they'll plan to see the show next year. "Still The One" blasted on speakers as Twain stepped onto a temporary outdoor stage near fountains made famous by events including daredevil Evel Knievel's motorcycle crash during a stunt on New Year's Eve 1967. To some, Twain's arrival echoed singer Frank Sinatra's heralded arrival on a camel at the old Dunes hotel in September 1955. Twain's show titled "Shania: Still the One" opens Dec. 1 at the nearly 4,300-seat Colosseum at Caesars Palace. The venue also hosts entertainers Celine Dion, Elton John, Jerry Seinfeld and others. Twain, 47, is touted as one of the best-selling female country artists of all time. The Canadian singer-songwriter has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide. Las Vegas police, including several on horseback, diverted traffic on the busy casino corridor for about 30 minutes for the spectacle. Read more: www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/shania-twain-horseback-arrival-las-vegas-article-1.1202719#ixzz2CMHImkjo
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2012 0:32:30 GMT -5
That traffic was fucking hell.
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Post by kylecburke on Nov 18, 2012 18:56:22 GMT -5
one of the actresses from Pretty Little Liars is making a country album and at teh AMA's she stated a strong influence was Shania Twain ;) yay!
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Shania Twain’s ‘Up!’ Turns 10By Billy Dukes 3 days ago Mercury Records Shania Twain proved she was still the most popular country music singer in the world when she released ‘Up!’ in 2002. The album features hit singles like the titletrack, ‘I’m Gonna Getcha Good’ and ‘Forever and for Always.’ The sad news related to this anniversary is that it also means it’s been an entire decade since Twain has released a new album. Of course, fans went nuts for the two-disc, 19-song album back in the day. ‘Up!’ went diamond for 10 million sold and debuted inside the Top 5 in 13 different countries, thanks to an internationally-flavored blue disc. There was also the red disc for pop fans, and the green disc for country fans. If you thought there was a lot of hype around Taylor Swift‘s recent ‘Red’ album, you have forgotten how much Twain fans saw in the weeks and months leading up to — and after — the November release. Promotion even included a Super Bowl halftime appearance! As far as the album’s critical reception, media sources (both country and non-country) gobbled up Twain’s new music like Thanksgiving dinner after a two-week hunger strike. Country radio was not as enthusiastic. The album didn’t produce a No. 1 hit on the country singles charts (the airy ballad ‘Forever and for Always’ came closest at No. 4), and it’s rare to find any of the songs still played today. ‘Up!’ may be Twain’s least country album to date. When she returns with new music, it will be interesting to see what color the disc is. Source
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Shania Twain’s ‘Up!’ Turns 10By Billy Dukes 3 days ago Mercury Records Shania Twain proved she was still the most popular country music singer in the world when she released ‘Up!’ in 2002. The album features hit singles like the titletrack, ‘I’m Gonna Getcha Good’ and ‘Forever and for Always.’ The sad news related to this anniversary is that it also means it’s been an entire decade since Twain has released a new album. Of course, fans went nuts for the two-disc, 19-song album back in the day. ‘Up!’ went diamond for 10 million sold and debuted inside the Top 5 in 13 different countries, thanks to an internationally-flavored blue disc. There was also the red disc for pop fans, and the green disc for country fans. If you thought there was a lot of hype around Taylor Swift‘s recent ‘Red’ album, you have forgotten how much Twain fans saw in the weeks and months leading up to — and after — the November release. Promotion even included a Super Bowl halftime appearance! As far as the album’s critical reception, media sources (both country and non-country) gobbled up Twain’s new music like Thanksgiving dinner after a two-week hunger strike. Country radio was not as enthusiastic. The album didn’t produce a No. 1 hit on the country singles charts (the airy ballad ‘Forever and for Always’ came closest at No. 4), and it’s rare to find any of the songs still played today. ‘Up!’ may be Twain’s least country album to date. When she returns with new music, it will be interesting to see what color the disc is. Source I definitely agree that it's her least country-sounding record and of her 3 major albums, my least favorite. However, I still love the album and I think almost every song on this album could've been a hit (at least on pop radio) if they were released as singles. I think "I Ain't Goin' Down" should've definitely been a country single and is the most naturally-sounding country song on the album (the green version, that is). A lot of the lyrics are corny, but they're still catchy as hell and quite addicting like most of her music is (to me at least).
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Shania Twain Q+A, Part 1: New life in Las Vegas, conquering fears of singing againTOM DONOGHUE/DONOGHUEPHOTOGRAPHY.COMShania Twain arrives horseback at Caesars Palace on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, and Caesars Palace President Gary Selesner (in glasses), AEG West chief John Meglen and fans were on hand to greet the Canadian superstar. By Robin Leach (contact)Monday, Nov. 19, 2012 | 6 p.m. Country pop queen and five-time Grammy Award winner Shania Twain admits that even after 17 years of recording and performing, she’s still nervous every night she steps onstage. “I will probably always get butterflies. I would forget where I was sometimes, just out of panic. I am sure I will have that as well here in Las Vegas. Fortunately, it dissipates once I get out there,” said the Canadian superstar, who is one of the bestselling female artists in music history. In one of her first interviews since arriving here last week, Shania talked with me Sunday at length about her new Caesars Palace show and its horses, her new gowns and how she’s only here because of her younger sister Carrie Ann, who will be one of her three backup singers in the new Colosseum show premiering Dec 1. We’ll have all that in the second part of our interview Tuesday, but today our talk focuses on how she’s going to live in Vegas -- and last week’s incredible arrival on horseback on the Strip. Shania cleared up a misunderstanding that the horse she rode on was not El Alcazar. That’s her white horse that appears in all her show photos and in the Caesars Palace hotel commercial. “He’ll be onstage with me,” she said. “We’ll also have onstage the horse I rode on the Strip for the arrival, Molesso. I don’t know why everybody got them confused. He’s the black horse and Alacazar is the white Spanish horse you see me with.” It’s the point at which we began chatting. Robin Leach: You sure know how to make an entrance! Shania Twain: Well, you know I love to ride horses, so that was a fun thing to do. R.L.: What is it about you and horses? S.T.: Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you. The other day riding down the Strip on that horse, that was the first time I had ridden on that horse, so I don’t know that horse, which is a dangerous thing to do. It is not something that I would do every day. When we got to the red carpet, I thought this horse may not go on the red carpet, he may decide, “No, I’m not going on the red carpet.” Horses don’t like change, for example, of going from concrete to whatever, the sound change, hard lines or anything like that. So, I’m thinking all right, I’ve got to stay completely calm and completely relaxed, no matter what. If I am going to stay safe on this horse, because I don’t know what he is going to do, but at the same time, I have to act like everything is OK and that I am not thinking too much. So, horses really get you to stop, think and reflect. It is good for me, and you have no choice but to really just keep your cool. It is hard to do that when you are excited, because I was very excited to see everybody, and I had to keep it cool because of the horse. R.L.: I thought the horse was -- to put it politely -- pretty frisky following 40 lady horses. Some carrying foals, but all female, and he was definitely “interested” in all of them! S.T.: This is why he probably was more animated than usual; he wanted to just be with the pack, of course. I thought, OK, I am just going to go with the flow. I have ridden horses for many years, but when it is a horse you don’t know, you don’t really know what they are going to do so; there was an element of that. I guess that is what I love about them. I love being around them for that reason. They just demand your focus and concentration, and it is good for me. It is good therapy for anybody. R.L.: Are you going to ride on a regular basis while you are in Las Vegas? S.T.: Oh, yes. I hope so. In fact, when I was here, just visiting, earlier on this year even before we started rehearsals, I saw a couple of mounted police riding down the Strip, with the traffic, with the cars and everything, and I thought I’d love to do that sometime. I wonder if I could organize that? Just to go on their police horseback duties -- and at that time we hadn’t planned our arrival ride down the Strip. R.L.: I love the idea of you being policewoman Twain for a shift! S.T.: We should have gone down Twain Avenue, but it was all good, it was really fun. I have to ride there and get a photo taken under the street sign. R.L.: Las Vegas has really opened its heart to you and welcomes you. We know that you live in Switzerland, the Bahamas and have a tiny log cabin hidden away in some mystery forest in Canada, but now you are calling Las Vegas home for two years, maybe longer. Does it feel like home yet? S.T.: Definitely. It really does. I am surprised, to be honest. My producers AEG do such a good job, and Caesars Palace, they are just all so good at this. I thank Celine [Dion]; I honestly do because she has been here for so long. I think everybody has learned how to make the scenario work through the experience of Celine. And any artist who comes here. I am just totally happy here. They have just done a great job of making me feel at home, and I totally do feel it already. I’m going to truly miss it when I take a little break between our shows. R.L.: Are you going to get involved in the Las Vegas community over the next two years? And the outdoors? S.T.: Well, I sure hope so. Once the show is underway, and it’s not day and night as it is now, I am definitely ready to get out and just enjoy life around here, for sure. Go hiking, golfing, going out to the canyons. I think that would be wonderful. I actually miss getting out and doing that stuff. My schedule just doesn’t allow it right now, but … I will be out playing tennis. You’ll see me just getting out. I would love to do some charity work, actually. I look forward to doing that. We have already been out to visit Andre Agassi’s school that he put together. We are well aware of that, so we plan on going there and doing some things out there with them. I know about Keep Memory Alive and its Cleveland Clinic Center for Brain Health. I look forward to hearing more about it. R.L.: Shania, go back in time for a moment when Lionel Richie came to the Bahamas and talked you into performing again after such a long absence when you couldn’t sing. Now you are actually going to be on the stage at Caesars. You’ve got the lion’s den test shows coming up next week, and then the world premiere a week from Saturday. Are you over the nerves? Are you 100 percent back to normal? Do you still get butterflies? S.T.: I will probably always get butterflies. So many nights, I would start my concerts with “Are you ready, Chicago? Are you ready, Denver?” before I walked out, and I would forget where I was sometimes, just out of panic. It’s a last-minute rush that comes over you, and of course you know where you are all that day, but that moment comes right at the last minute. I did that even when I was doing this regularly with the early tours, so I am sure I will have that as well here in Las Vegas. Fortunately, it just dissipates once I get out there. R.L.: You are still in contact with Lionel? Has he wished you well for Caesars Palace? Is he coming to see you? S.T.: I hope he does come. We have to talk about that. He is such a great supporter. He is just super; he really encouraged me. He was a great coach when I really didn’t think I could, when I was not ready to sing anywhere. Forget make a record. I was just like, “Oh, no, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.” R.L.: But you are over all of those doubts now, completely, right? S.T.: Oh yeah, I have recorded with David Foster, and he was also really great. He was like you can do this, and then Lionel Richie, you can do this. Gladys Knight said the same thing. Everyone has just been really supportive. I feel like I have to walk my own walk; you have to go through the process. Just being out on the stage now is familiar. I already feel very at home on the Colosseum stage. None of that feels foreign at all. I had to bring myself to a point where I was back on the stage again and not just in the studio, so that has been my own journey. Nobody can encourage you; you just have to do it, physically just get out there and do it. So, that is what we are doing. I think what will be new will be the reunion of seeing the fans again. That will be what I haven’t experienced in a long time. That will probably create a lot of adrenaline. On Tuesday, Shania reveals secrets of the show: why her sister gets credit for her agreeing to do the residency; which horses will be in it; the glorious gowns she’ll wear; and the moments she knows she’ll cry at every night. Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.Follow Robin Leach on Twitter at Twitter.com/Robin_Leach.Follow Vegas DeLuxe on Twitter at Twitter.com/vegasdeluxe.Follow VDLX Editor Don Chareunsy on Twitter at Twitter.com/VDLXEditorDon.Source
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Shania Twain Q+A, Part 2: Sister Carrie Ann’s support, Marc Bouwer gowns and technologyERIK KABIK/ ERIKKABIK.COMShania Twain arrives horseback at Caesars Palace on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. By Robin Leach (contact)Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012 | 11:07 p.m. Superstar Shania Twain has revealed that if it wasn’t for someone special in her life, she would never have agreed to the new run of “Still the One” shows at the Colosseum in Caesars Palace. On Monday in Part 1 of my interview with the Canadian country-pop princess, she credited supporters including Lionel Richie, David Foster and our hometown “Empress of Soul” Gladys Knight with helping her overcome fears to sing again. Now in Part 2 today, you’ll learn who had to say “yes” to performing onstage with her before Shania agreed to sign her Las Vegas contract. Here is a YouTube video of her official announcement in June 2011. Robin Leach: Shania, that stage in the Colosseum is about to become your home. It’s big and overwhelming. You conquered your fears to get into a recording studio again, but this is your first time back on a stage with a live audience. How do you feel already rehearsing on it? Shania Twain: I feel great on it. It is a great stage. It doesn’t feel as big as it looks. It is well laid out. It is a very comfortable stage in every way. R.L.: You’ve got your sister up there for support in the backup singers? S.T.: Carrie Ann is two years younger than me. It’s comforting that family is out there with me. It is just so great. I love it. I am so glad she is doing it. She is not a professional singer, and I convinced her to do it with me. She sounds exactly like me. It is incredible. We have identical voices. She just never wanted to do it professionally, but I finally got her onstage with me, and it is exciting. She had nothing to do with music at all. This is what I said to her. I said, “I am not going back on the stage unless you come with me. So if you say you’ll come with me, I’ll do it. Otherwise, I am not doing it.” R.L.: So is she the reason you are here in Las Vegas? S.T.: Yes, pretty much. She decided to do it. It’s like jumping off a bridge; I’ll do it if you do it. So, this is now what we are doing. She leads a very normal life up in Ontario, and now suddenly she’s singing on the Strip. That’s quite a story in itself. R.L.: Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, Avril Lavigne, Alanis Morissette, Michael Buble, David Foster, you and your sister. I’m convinced that there’s something in the water in Canada. S.T.: There is something especially great in Celine’s water, whatever she has! I have heard well wishes from her through many people. She is such a lovely person, and I’ve been backstage a couple of times when she wasn’t there and I saw Rene [Angelil, Celine’s husband], and Rene is just lovely and passes on hugs and kisses. They are just wonderful people. I’m in her dressing room, so I hope all of her success rubs off on me. R.L.: My sources tell me that Marc Bouwer’s designs for your costumes are going to make every woman in the world drool with envy. Six gowns in all! S.T.: Marc has done a super job. I am excited about wearing the clothes. Just yesterday we were doing regular rehearsals, and bits and pieces of the clothes are being finalized, but I had one pair of the boots to wear, and I stuck them on with my rehearsal clothes and something changes. When you put his clothes on, first with the shoes, it is just like wow, everything is different now. The live stage is a whole experience. It is a visual experience as much as it is an audio experience; otherwise, you would just listen to a record. There is a reason why we have all these elements. The clothes are important, and Marc is doing a super job. R.L.: What do you want audiences to take away from the experience with this show? S.T.: Well, I just hope they have a great time. I am there to make people happy, and I want them to walk out of there and go, “Wow, that was a great show.” I just want them to enjoy it and love it. There is a lot of variety in the show because my life and my career have had so much variety. I think just to be able to say they have experienced something that they have never seen before will be the best compliment. R.L.: Is there a favorite moment that you already have in this show that you have created with your director, Raj Kapoor? S.T.: That is a tough one. I think the one I am enjoying the most, at the moment, is the medley. I can’t really explain why, I don’t know, I have got to do the show more to really fall into my favorite place, to be honest with you. But then there’s also the most emotional moment in the show. I hope I don’t cry. If I do, that is OK. I will just cry. I don’t want to tell you because I want you to see it. I know you’re coming to see it on opening night, but I want you to experience it and me not tell you in advance. R.L.: What secret can you tell me? I know the video is the most extraordinary mapping overlay that has ever been created for a show. S.T.: That is true. Technologically speaking, it will be awesome. Well, what can I tell you? There will be a live horse in the show. It will be El Alcazar. He wasn’t the horse I rode in on for the official arrival. That was Molesso, and he will also be in the show if you want to know that, too. Alcazar is actually the white horse that is in all of the ads, and that is the actual horse that is in the show. The one that is in the Caesars commercial. Don’t come thinking they are going to light up like Robert Redford did. We are not doing anything like that. It is a lot of production, but it is not a Cirque du Soleil production. It is more organic. There is a real contrast of organic and technology. That balance is really the beauty of the show. R.L.: You saw this show in your head, obviously, before you started putting it together with Raj. Has it come together the way that you first envisioned it? S.T.: Oh, definitely. It had to evolve because everything I wanted simply wasn’t possible. So one idea replaced another. I rolled out the whole storyboard, and then we just narrowed it down, and in some cases we added or came up with new ways of doing things that I wanted to do. It is all happening, and the whole personal story is there. The way it has turned out has me very happy. Raj is wonderful in every way. He’s got such a cool head, and I am like a bossy boots down there. He is just so nice all the time. It is amazing. It is just really lovely. It is good, and I think we are still working really well together. I am happy with everything and everyone. What we already have accomplished is wonderful. I’m so excited because everybody else gets more excited. Nobody, except for me and Raj, really has the full picture yet. So, as everybody is going through rehearsals, they still have never seen the whole thing at this stage. We’ll run it full in bits and pieces this week just before Thanksgiving for the first time. I want the stage full on for the lion’s den test previews. We start those next Tuesday, and then we’ll know it all for sure. I can’t believe we have finally reached this point. It has been a journey; I am not terrified. I am not fearful. I am now ready. We’ll meet again with Shania the day before her Dec. 1 world premiere for last-minute updates, and then we’ll have a report and photos of opening night. Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.Follow Robin Leach on Twitter at Twitter.com/Robin_Leach.Follow Vegas DeLuxe on Twitter at Twitter.com/vegasdeluxe.Follow VDLX Editor Don Chareunsy on Twitter at Twitter.com/VDLXEditorDon.Source
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Post by spoonabdul3 on Nov 28, 2012 12:29:41 GMT -5
wow i just realized this show opens on SATURDAY! anyone heard anything about the setlist? i am anxious to see what songs she performs. any guesses on the setlist? what singles she will omitt?
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A nice short video interview here, where Shania talks about her comparisons to Taylor Swift and confirms that she'll get into the studio to record the songs she's written during her hiatus after her Vegas show ends. www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2012/11/28/shania-twain-returns-las-vegas-caesars-residency/1710625/Can the country-pop legend "take the Vegas residency to the next level"? Starting Saturday, the world will find out. Twain promises a horse and her sister in her new two-year residency 'Still the One' at Caesars Palace Recent memoir and TV show helped put tough times in the rearview mirror and allowed for her return The Canadian singer says a long-awaited new album is a priority for 2013 7:49PM EST November 28. 2012 - LAS VEGAS – There's a telling lyric in Man! I Feel Like a Woman! off Shania Twain's Come On Over, her monster 1997 release whose global sales of 40 million copies make it the biggest album ever by a female artist. "The best thing about being a woman," sings the Canadian-born siren, "is the prerogative to have a little fun." But the thing is, Twain wasn't. "For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success," says Twain, 47, draped in black leather and lace and nestled in a suite high above the glittering Strip. "What was there to enjoy about it, really? I wondered, 'What is success exactly?' " Now, it seems, she knows. There's being with Frederic Thiebaud, 42, her husband of nearly two years, and son, Eja, 11. There's riding horses and writing songs. But an activity even she didn't anticipate is committing to Shania: Still the One, a two-year concert residency at Caesars Palace that begins Saturday. "I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself," says the singer, whose personal journey has known more than a few unpleasant turns. "I didn't know Vegas was where I'd end up at the end of my climb up that big mountain of life, but here I am." And this time, she's taking her own lyrical advice. "My husband, my manager and my sister Carrie (Ann Brown) have all been saying, 'Enjoy your talent for a change, just have fun with it,' " Twain says. "The only reason I have this opportunity (to perform at The Colosseum) is because the talent is already there and the dues have been paid. So, right, I'll have fun." Famously hands-on, Twain helped steer her own groundbreaking career – which controversially fused country with pop long before Taylor Swift donned that mantle – by writing songs, choosing her outlandish outfits and even staging and editing cheeky music videos typified by her midriff-baring swagger through That Don't Impress Me Much. So there's little surprise that she charged into Still the One determined to create a Vegas spectacle that both leverages her assets (from natural beauty to engaging showmanship) and reflects her personality (rugged individualist with a passion for nature). And she's got one more thing going for her – the incalculable appeal of having been a cultural phenomenon only to then leave the eye of that hurricane. Her last tour was in support of 2002's Up!. "When she was big, there were none bigger," says Ian Drew, senior music editor at Us Weekly. "Vegas is not a place for teeny-boppers, and many adults who go there are the folks who still hold Shania in their hearts. For someone who had her status, this is a logical move." Twain will perform approximately 60 shows a year with one run now through Dec. 15 and another in March and April. The remaining dates are still to be scheduled; prices range from $55 to $250. "I think she can take the Vegas residency to the next level," says John Meglen, CEO of AEG Live, who has built a small stable of legends for the 4,100-seat Caesars venue that include the pioneering Celine Dion, Elton John, Rod Stewart and now Twain. "The Colosseum works if you've been a very successful singer, songwriter and performer. But that last one is key for us, and she's one of the best." Meglen says he's been pursuing Twain going back 10 years, when The Colosseum had just been constructed for Dion. Twain's glam fireworks-laden halftime performance of Man! I Feel Like a Woman! at the 2003 Super Bowl only further convinced him that she'd score in Sin City. Two years ago, Twain finally took the bait and started mulling the notion. "Women drive most of the show ticket purchases, and when I hear them walking out of Celine, there's a lot of talk about the glamour and the spectacle, both of which Shania brings to the table," he says. Twain plans to bring more than just that. Like a horse. And her sister. "It's true, I'll have both up there with me," she says with a booming laugh. "When I agreed to do this show, I said I will only do it if I'm surrounded by my favorite things, and I've stayed true to those wishes." Twain won't reveal just how or when a great black horse will become her co-star (the regal equine is featured in posters for Still the One), but says Brown – along with a Canadian singing duo of twin brothers called RyanDan – is part of the entire show. "I told her I wasn't doing this without her," she says. "We haven't been on stage together since I was 10 and she was 8. My records feature a lot of harmonizing, and in past shows we hired someone to do that. But my sister sounds a lot like me, so it will sound more like the records than ever before." Twain promises that her show will feature "all the big hits, some of which will be presented in very personal ways, and others will offer some larger-than-life moments that really belong to Vegas." To create such spectacle, Twain has teamed with Raj Kapoor, a veteran director of tours for Carrie Underwood, Demi Lovato and American Idol. He says their mutual goal is to "combine a rock 'n' roll concert with real theater," adding that the production includes 13 musicians, four dancers, six costume changes, huge video screens and an unusual treat for the senses. Smell. "She and I were talking and saying how when she comes out, there should be this overwhelming scent of a beautiful woman," says Kapoor with a chuckle. "So she created a perfume (Still the One, to be sold on site) which you'll smell in the audience, along with a few other atmospheric smells that will accompany other parts of the show." So that's just one example of how Twain is having fun with the new show, exercising her "creative brain like crazy" in a way that helps keep doubt at bay. Mostly gone now is the stage fright that has accompanied Twain – born Eilleen Edwards in Windsor, Ontario – since the days when she performed in bars and even strip clubs as a preteen to help her mother and stepfather, Jerry Twain, make ends meet. And while she can't erase the darker parts of her life – abuse at the hands of her stepfather, the death of her mother and Twain in a 1987 car accident, and the surreal drama that saw her husband and producer Robert "Mutt" Lange run off in 2008, after 15 years of marriage, with her best friend while Twain fell for the woman's husband, Frederic – she's moved closer to acceptance. "I had to put one foot in front of the other in order to move forward," says Twain, who in 2011 detailed her ordeals in both the autobiography From This Moment On and Why Not? With Shania Twain, a six-episode series on the Oprah Winfrey Network. "There were moments I had to take a few leaps. Writing the book was a process, publishing it for the world to see was a leap. The TV shows were a leap," she says softly, brushing a stray strand of leonine chestnut-colored hair aside. "I said to myself, 'You're going to have to force yourself a little bit and face some fears in order to get to the next stage.' And that allowed me to commit to the Vegas idea. To really embrace it." Not that she anticipates the coming years will be a walk in the park. Beyond the show, she's also promising that a long-awaited and oft-delayed new album will be a priority as soon as her concerts get under way. "I've got all these great songs," she says. One big upside of Still the One: Her son Eja "will really get to see what Mommy does," she says with motherly pride. A down side? "Finding a balance between my personal and professional life. I was cooking and mommying and doing all those things, and now I was having to think about how I was going to balance this gigantic career demand and still be a good mother and a good wife and be good to myself." Beaming at Twain from across the suite is her Swiss-born husband, a former Nestle executive. Thiebaud, whom she just calls Fred, is an affable sort who talks in animated tones about their life together along Switzerland's Lake Geneva (a favorite pastime is hitting the fabled Montreux Jazz Festival each summer) and more recently on an island in the Bahamas. "There is so much to see there," he says in accented English. "Life is an adventure." Now add to that mix some time in the desert mirage that is Las Vegas. "It should be fun," Thiebaud says with a boyish wink. Happy wife, happy life, the saying goes. And Twain, finally, is happy. Right? "Yes, I am happy about a lot of things that I wasn't happy about for a long time, and it's a great place to be," she says. So, what is happiness? She thinks about this for a blink, then answers. "I sat down beside a technician on my new show the other day. He'd been working 18 hours straight and it was already 11 o'clock at night and I was going to bed and he was still carrying on. So I asked him, 'How's it going?' and he said with a smile, 'I'm living the dream,' " she says, beaming. "And I go, yeah, wow, that's right, that's the reason we're all doing it, because we really are living the dream," she says. "And that's happiness."
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The "Shania: Still the One" Vegas show begins today - December 1, 2012. The following is from a Press Conference that was held yesterday: "Shania: Still The One" Press ConferenceBy Handout (GETTY) – 17 hours ago LAS VEGAS, NV - NOVEMBER 30: Shania Twain talks about preparing for opening night in Las Vegas during a press conference November 30, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. One of the world's best-selling female artists of all time, Shania Twain is making final preparations for the debut of her brand new show, "Shania: Still The One". The show debuts December 1, kicking off her two-year residency in The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. (Photo by Glenn Pinkerton/Las Vegas News Bureau via Getty Images) Copyright © 2012 Getty Images. All rights reserved. Source
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Shania ready for Vegas spotlightBY JANE STEVENSON,QMI AGENCY FIRST POSTED: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 01, 2012 07:11 AM EST | UPDATED: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 01, 2012 05:07 PM EST Forget about that horse she'll be sharing the stage with -- more equine news shortly -- first-time Sin City residency performer Shania Twain is more nervous about the critics. The 47-year-old Canadian country crossover singer told reporters Friday afternoon despite being off stage for almost a decade, she doesn't have too many butterflies about her two-year residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, titled Shania: Still The One. It officially kicks off Saturday night. "We're very happy with how (the two previews have) gone," said Twain adding: "What really makes me nervous are the critics .... What can I say? That's the nerve-wracking part of this." Surely, an animal on stage is worse no? Yes, Twain confirmed she will be joined by one during her 90 minute Las Vegas performance. "You will see a horse on stage and in a really big way. This is not a circus. It's not a kid show." Twain, who has been in rehearsals since early November, said she structured her show around her hits. "The idea was 'Let's bring the videos to life,' and so that's what we're doing." The biggest challenge was learning to pace herself again. "I'm not Britney Spears. I'm not a dancer. I'm not Michael Jackson. ... It's just not who I am. So that's been interesting but I think I've got it. And if I'm out of breath, I'm out of breath." The Timmins, Ont.-raised Twain -- who started as a bar singer before her first professional job as a performer in a Vegas-style revue at Deerhurst Resort near Huntsville, Ont. -- says she couldn't have imagined having an actual Las Vegas residency back then. "It is a bit of a full circle in some ways because Deerhurst was the first ever exposure I had working with dancers, working with a stage producer, and that sort of thing ... on a very different scale however." Backed by 13 musicians, her Colosseum show will also feature her younger sister Carrie-Ann sharing the stage with her for the first time. "My poor little baby sister and she has not been on the stage since she was eight years old. She sounds identical to me so if there are any bad notes, it's her," Twain, joked before adding more seriously: "We just wish our mother could see it. But we're happily emotional about it." She also famously lost her voice to a condition known as dysphonia after husband-collaborator "Mutt" Lange had an affair with her best friend Marie-Anne Thiébaud and their marriage ended in 2008. But says she's happy "finally" with how she sounds. "I've had to work very hard at that. But it's been a rehabilitation and luckily there's nothing that was ever wrong with my vocal chords ... And I could still belt and scream... So I'm having a lot of fun just being able to be loud if I want to be loud." She said her second husband Fred -- Thiebaud's ex in a strange twist -- has been a major support although she told Player magazine her 11 year old son Eja -- with Lange -- is still going to school in their adopted home of the Bahamas. "I can not live without (Fred). I need that support and I just think what we have grounds me everyday and it reminds me that there are a lot more important things in the world than what I do." jane.stevenson@sunmedia.ca Source
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Post by kylecburke on Dec 1, 2012 20:44:06 GMT -5
Hope we gets lots of vids and pics!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2012 22:50:59 GMT -5
The show has begun! The show begins and Shania's entrance is spectacular! She's dazzling in a sparkly bodysuit and hasn't sounded better. Fans are going crazy!
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Post by kylecburke on Dec 1, 2012 23:06:40 GMT -5
Shania Twain's Still The One Setlist
I'm gonna getcha good You win my love. Don't be stupid Up I ain't no quitter don't No one needs to know Who's bed have your boots been under Any man of mine The woman in me That don't impress me much Honey I'm home If your not in it for love (I'm out of here) Come On Over. Today is your day Still The One From This Moment Man I feel Like a Woman.
No Love gets me or Forever and foralways??? 2 big hits from her?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2012 23:32:07 GMT -5
@tararhenley: "Insanely cinematic opening. And now Shania is suspended in the air on a motorcycle. That's what I call an entrance."
"Shania is wearing a sequin catsuit - and wearing it well. She looks fab."
"Shania wasn't kidding when she said she was back to belting out songs. She's having fun w You Win My Love. All confidence & voice is great."
"Hopping violinists. Water footage. A bang-on performance of Don't Be Stupid. First standing ovation. This crowd is loving Shania."
"Footage playing that looks like a cross between an old Western and a video game. Kinda loving it."
"Costume change to floor-length, long-sleeved glittering gown."
"Third costume: jeans and shirt & hot pink cowboy boots."
"Now she's wearing wildly over-the-top ensemble: animal print pants & hooded cape with pink sequin top and choker. That does impress me much."
"She seems to have recovered her voice fully. She's hitting the high notes and she sounds like the old Shania."
"Stage has been transformed into a forest, and Shania is wearing short-shorts, a glittery top and new boots. There's a camp fire, too."
"She is looking back on her childhood and singing a wee bit of Twinkle, Twinkle. Her voice is def back."
"Shania singing Today is Your Day: "A song I wrote to cheer myself up during a very difficult time.""
"When Shania got to the line about no regrets, a guy in the back screamed his support so loud that she stopped and smiled."
"Shania just rode out on a white horse. A very affectionate horse too. Quite sweet. She's singing Still The One now."
"You really have to admire @shaniatwain. This has to have been a nerve-racking night for her and she is totally nailing it. And having fun!"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2012 0:48:15 GMT -5
She's back.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Dec 2, 2012 0:59:03 GMT -5
^ That article of clothing is doing the opposite of what its supposed to do for the artist wearing it. But at least she looks great from the neck up!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2012 1:02:41 GMT -5
That article of clothing is doing the opposite of what its supposed to do for the artist wearing it. She looks great, I think. "There were moments I had to take a few leaps. Writing the book was a process, publishing it for the world to see was a leap. The TV shows were a leap," she says softly, brushing a stray strand of leonine chestnut-colored hair aside. "I said to myself, 'You're going to have to force yourself a little bit and face some fears in order to get to the next stage.' And that allowed me to commit to the Vegas idea. To really embrace it."
Not that she anticipates the coming years will be a walk in the park. Beyond the show, she's also promising that a long-awaited and oft-delayed new album will be a priority as soon as her concerts get under way. "I've got all these great songs," she says.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2012 1:38:36 GMT -5
Shania Twain's Still The One Setlist I'm gonna getcha good You win my love. Don't be stupid Up I ain't no quitter don't No one needs to know Who's bed have your boots been under Any man of mine The woman in me That don't impress me much Honey I'm home If your not in it for love (I'm out of here) Come On Over. Today is your day Still The One From This Moment Man I feel Like a Woman. No Love gets me or Forever and foralways??? 2 big hits from her? That sucks! "Love Gets Me Every Time" is one of her best songs, imo. I definitely would've included it in the set list in place of "I Ain't No Quitter". And I also think she looks great in the body suit.
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Here are more photos from the Windsor Star:Shania Twain performs onstage at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, in Las Vegas. The show kicks off a two-year residency at Caesars. (Photo by Eric Jamison/Invision/AP) Shania Twain performs onstage at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Eric Jamison/Invision/AP) Singer Shania Twain performs during the debut of her residency show “Shania: Still the One” at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on December 1, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Getty Images) Shania Twain performs onstage at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, in Las Vegas. The show kicks off a two-year residency at Caesars. (Photo by Eric Jamison/Invision/AP) Singer Shania Twain performs during the debut of her residency show “Shania: Still the One” at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace on December 1, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Getty Images) Windsor Star
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Shania Twain lauded with standing ovations in return to stage in Las VegasBy Nick Patch, The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – 55 minutes ago LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Shania Twain roared into her first live show in more than eight years perched atop a glistening motorcycle on Saturday, dangling on wires at least three metres in the air in a sequined black catsuit, her thick brown hair flowing behind her. Without singing a word, she then received her first standing ovation from an adoring Caesars Palace audience. Shania was back. And her new Las Vegas digs seemed an even better fit for the Canadian-bred country starlet than the skin-tight costume she wore as she stomped her thigh-high black boots back across the stage for the first time since July 2004. Next, fierce guitars cut like buzzsaws as her 13-piece band launched into "I'm Gonna Getcha Good" and Twain strutted about the stage as if she'd never left. But of course, she did leave — and she didn't let the sold-out crowd forget that they were witnessing a tough, triumphant moment for the 47-year-old many still consider the Queen of Country. "Thank you. Thank you so much — you guys are going to get me all emotional, and then my eyelashes are going to fall off," said Twain, dabbing at her eyes as she addressed the audience for the first time. "This is a very overwhelming night.... It's been a lot of years for me since I've been here. "I realize what I've been missing, thanks to you." And yet, this 100-minute show — titled "Shania: Still the One" — was at once a callback to one of the most successful runs in recent music history as well as a chic, cheeky look toward a new era in Twain's career. And she certainly looked rejuvenated. She laughed often — even when it threatened to throw off her delicate diction — she blew kisses, she waded into the crowd, she mimed cymbal smashes and occasionally tossed off seemingly improvised dance moves imbued with the spontaneous joy of someone lost in the moment. "You guys having a good time so far?" she asked halfway through her set. "I hope so, 'cause that's the only reason I do this.... Otherwise I would just stay on my lonesome and sing." Yes, Twain still effortlessly projected the warmly accessible cowgirl next door — even while wholeheartedly embracing the glitz and sizzle expected on the Las Vegas Strip. The production values of the show were, indeed, dazzling. Performing at the Colosseum — a gloriously high-ceilinged, 4,298-seat modern replica of the Roman architectural marvel — inside sprawling Caesars Palace, Twain's show featured no shortage of splashy surprises. She first sent a jolt through the crowd by charging onstage on the back of a black stallion before launching into a rowdy take on "Ain't No Quitter" with the stage decorated to look like a Wild West saloon. During "That Don't Impress Me Much," meanwhile, huge metal pipes churned out smoke on either side of the stage while snarling leopards were projected on the walls. And during "You're Still the One," she trotted onstage on a different horse — a white equine this time — before gently frolicking with it throughout the performance, confetti shaped like snowflakes falling from the sky. The entire time, a high-definition screen behind her beamed kaleidoscopic visuals or all-new film clips starring Twain herself, helping along a narrative that the singer has said tells her own story. Saturday's show was extra meaningful in part because Twain has been in vocal rehabilitation for years, since reporting the sudden loss of her voice following her painful split from studio wizard and key creative collaborator Robert (Mutt) Lange. If Twain showed hints of rust in her voice early, she only sounded more robust and comfortable as the gig went on, setting an especially lofty mark for herself during a lovely version of "From This Moment On," with billowing white curtains fluttering overhead, smoke languidly filling the air around her feet and tribal drummers hammering away on either side of the stage. And even her less sure-footed moments didn't slow her momentum. Although the event was tightly produced, it was also relaxed, and Twain let her banter flow naturally even if it slowed the pace of the slick show. "I know I'm talking a lot," she said with self-awareness at one point. "But this is the first opening night — I can't help myself." While the show was a family friendly affair, Twain also proved that after nearly a decade spent out of the public eye she's still not shy about tapping into the power of her sex appeal — and this is, after all, Vegas. One video depicted her writhing about on a couch in lingerie, while another in the Wild West motif showed a steely-eyed Twain marching into a dusty town clad in a cowboy hat, long coat and bustier, eliciting enthusiastic whistles from a couple approving audience members. Twain was arguably the first country star to take full advantage of MTV, and many of the outfits she wore paid homage to memorable duds from videos past. She wore a modified version of the leopard-print hooded robe familiar from the "That Don't Impress Me Much" clip and kicked off an encore performance of "Man! I Feel Like a Woman" in the familiar black undertaker's coat and bowler hat with veil. She cycled through a series of other outfits: a sparkling pink western button-down with matching cowboy boots and jeans; a glittering tank top with baggy animal-print pants; a glamorous long white gown that perfectly set the tone for "You're Still the One." Somehow, everything fit — both the ageless Twain and her show. As for the selection of songs, well, Twain stuck to the best-known tunes. And let's face it: she has hits like Pete Rose. To quickly recap Twain's stunning commercial achievements: two double-diamond albums in Canada (1997's "Come On Over" and 2002's "Up!") plus her 1995 breakthrough "The Woman in Me," which "only" went diamond once. "Come On Over" is still the best-selling studio album by a female act and best-selling country album of all time. And she's sold more than 75 million albums worldwide. Twain's sound fused slickly catchy country-pop with the swelling choruses of arena rock and, as her career went on, increasing elements of adult contemporary pop — but much of her show seemed instead focused on her country side. Twain's initial run will include 10 performances through Dec. 15, with the next 14-show engagement beginning March 19. It's still unclear whether Twain has the globe-spanning appeal of Celine Dion, whose own residency at the Colosseum has become one of Las Vegas's premiere attractions. But certainly, Twain's debut didn't lack for hype in a city known for little else. On the Las Vegas Strip, an overwhelming, overstimulated bemusement park smothered in ads and billboards competing for your attention and money, Twain has still stood out. Weeks ago, she paraded up the Strip with a herd of 40 horses, in some ways calling to mind Frank Sinatra's heralded arrival on a camel at the old Dunes hotel back in September 1955. Now, the Strip is dotted with "Still the One" billboards, depicting Twain nuzzling a horse. Around the Colosseum, a gift shop hawks an imaginative array of Twain-branded baubles, including replica bowler hats, T-shirts depicting silvery studded horses, perfumes, scented candles, moisturizing body lotions, pint glasses, shot glasses, mugs featuring her lyrics, magnets, baseball caps, pink wicker cowboy hats and key-chains with beer-bottle openers. Still, some fans weren't sated. "I was just bummed there wasn't any more men's merchandise," said 35-year-old Phoenix native Shawn Patrick. Taking in the excitement over the show, one thing was clear: in a town lousy with attractions, Twain's production seemed like a destination event. "I just had to be here for the opening night. Just had to," said Louyse Ooscdijk, 24, who made the trip from Zwolle, Netherlands and wore a grey sweater featuring a self-made design reading: "I travelled 5,377 miles to see Shania Twain in Las Vegas." Adriana Hernandez had waited a long time to see Twain, too. The 35-year-old travelled from Miami with her daughter to see the show, her first. Hernandez, like other fans, said she identified strongly with Twain's personal story, her capacity to overcome poverty, loss and heartbreak. "I can empathize because I have something similar in my background," Hernandez said. "Knowing that she had so little when she was a kid, and now that she has accomplished so much but she hasn't forgotten where she came from, is amazing. "She's a human being, then an artist." To Twain's fans, then, it made perfect sense to see the singer weave her life story into her production. On the eve of her grand debut, Twain had warned that much of her show was "more real than it probably should be." And "Shania: Still the One" did reference her notoriously difficult past — a childhood mired in poverty in Timmins, a fractured family with parents whose volatile, violent marriage ended in a fatal car accident leaving a 22-year-old Twain as sole provider for her siblings. The heart of the show seemed to lie in a section devoted to her roots. With images of a forest projected behind her and the stage arranged to look like a campfire, a casually clad Twain (wearing cut-off jean shorts, a long-sleeved grey top and knee-high tan boots) invited a selection of gob-smacked fans onstage, along with her sister Carrie-Ann (marking their first public duet since they were pre-teens) and Canadian songwriting duo RyanDan. She took the opportunity to reflect on her origins. "We were the hicks from the sticks. We really didn't have much," she said of her family, before paying moving tribute to her mom. "I talk about my mother a lot because I miss her. She passed away a long time ago and she never got to see any of my success.... I wouldn't have made it onstage without her. So it's kind of sad she couldn't see it." Any hint of solemnity evaporated quickly, as Twain was careful not to disturb the buoyancy of the production. She immediately led the motley crew of singers assembled in a restrained singalong version of "Come On Over," "Rock This Country" and "Today Is Your Day." It represented a truly sweet moment that seemed to only further smooth any remaining nerves Twain had. It was also a reminder of the sole aim of her new show — a big-budget, mass-appeal Las Vegas spectacle that still somehow felt personal, and always uniquely Twain's. "I want you to forget all the troubles that are waiting for you on your cell phones when you go," she said, letting out a laugh. "We're here to cheer up." Source
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December 2, 2012 Updated: December 2, 2012 | 3:04 am Setlist for Shania Twain in Las VegasBy Staff The Canadian Press LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Shania Twain returned to the stage for the first time in eight-plus years as she opened her residency at the Colosseum on Saturday. Below, the setlist she performed: 1. I’m Gonna Getcha Good 2. You Win My Love 3. Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You) 4. Up! 5. Ain’t No Quitter 6. No One Needs to Know 7. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under 8. Any Man of Mine 9. That Don’t Impress Me Much 10. Honey, I’m Home 11. If You’re Not In It For Love (I’m Outta Here) 12. Carrie Anne (Hollies cover with RyanDan) 13. Come On Over 14. Rock This Country 15. Today Is Your Day 16. You’re Still the One 17. From This Moment On (Encore) 18. Man! I Feel Like a Woman Source
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Post by HolidayGuy on Dec 2, 2012 9:09:30 GMT -5
Nothing from the first album? I'm shocked. She looks good, as usual.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2012 11:58:27 GMT -5
I hope some video clips surface. :(
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Post by Hook on Dec 2, 2012 12:59:53 GMT -5
I'm not counting on too many videos. I know how strict they are at those Vegas shows. I'm glad to see Shania back! She looks incredible. Maybe someone was able to sneak some good audio at least. I'd love to hear how she sounds now.
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