Britney Spears Circus tour: North American dates

APPhoto/Joel Rye*

Britney Spears' Circus tour is returning  to North America starting August 20th in Canada. There will then be a series of concerts across the USA.

Britney's Circus tour is in support of her album, Circus (you can see how the brainstorming session came up with the name, can't you?) and is already, from it's first leg in the spring, the highest grossing tour of 2009 so far.

After the first leg here the Circus tour went over to Europe and after it finishes its second run here it'll go over to Australia for a few dates.

Background, logistics and the running order for the Circus tour (full title is actually, "The Circus Starring: Britney Spears") can be found at this Wikipedia page.

Tickets for the show went on sale a few days back, on the 19th, so they may or may not be sold out already for the following dates and places:

AUGUST 2009

* 20 - Hamilton, ON - Copps Coliseum
* 21 - Ottawa, ON - Scotiabank Place
* 24 - New York, NY - MSG
* 25 - New York, NY - MSG
* 29 - Boston, MA - TD Banknorth Garden
* 30 - Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center

SEPTEMBER, 2009

* 1 - Orlando, FL - Amway Arena
* 2 - Miami, FL - AA Arena
* 4 - Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena
* 5 - Greensboro, NC - Coliseum
* 8 - Detroit, MI - The Palace of Auburn Hills
* 9 - Chicago, IL - Allstate Center
* 11 - Des Moines, IA - Wells Fargo Arena
* 12 - Grand Forks, IA - Alerus Center
* 15 - Tulsa, OK - BOK Center
* 16 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center
* 18 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
* 19 - Bossier City, LA - CenturyTel Center
* 21 - El Paso, TX - Don Haskins Center
* 23 - Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
* 26 - Las Vegas, NV - Mandalay Bay
* 27 - Las Vegas, NV - Mandalay Bay

Tickets go on sale beginning Friday, June 19th.

SLO residents who are also Britney Spears fans will be disheartened to see that the nearest shows are either LA or Vegas, something of a trip to see the pouting pop star. SLO residents who are not also Britney Spears fans will be heartened to see that the nearest shows are either in LA or Vegas, something of a trip to see the pouting pop star.

One possible parlor game will be to see who is out of town on the 23, 26 or 27 of September and thus who harbors a secret admiration for Brit Brit...

* Note, the photo is of the waxwork Britney at Madame Tussauds. It just seems so much more lifelike.