California Dreams Tour

California Dreams Tour
World tour by Katy Perry
Katy Perry performing on June 23, 2011
Associated albumTeenage Dream
Start dateFebruary 20, 2011 (2011-02-20)
End dateJanuary 22, 2012 (2012-01-22)
Legs8
No. of shows124
Box office$59.5 million ($69.64 million in 2021 dollars)
Katy Perry concert chronology

The California Dream Tour was the second concert tour by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry. It was to support her third studio album Teenage Dream. It started on February 20, 2011 in Lisbon, Portugal and ended on January 22, 22 in Passay, Philippines.

Set list

This set list is from the show on June 15, 2011 in Columbia, Maryland. It is not intended to represent all concerts for the tour.

  1. "Teenage Dream"
  2. "Hummingbird Heartbeat"
  3. "Waking Up in Vegas"
  4. "Ur So Gay"
  5. "Peacock"
  6. "I Kissed a Girl"
  7. "Circle the Drain"
  8. "E.T."
  9. "Who Am I Living For?"
  10. "Pearl"
  11. "Not Like the Movies"
  12. "The One That Got Away"
  13. "Only Girl (In the World)" / "Big Pimpin'" / "Friday" / "Whip My Hair"
  14. "Thinking of You"
  15. "Hot n Cold"
  16. "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"
  17. "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"
  18. "Firework"

Encore:

  1. "California Gurls"
Notes
  • "One of the Boys" was played instead of "Hummingbird Heartbeat" in the first night of the tour and "Hot n Cold" was played during the encore.[source?]
  • "Friday" was not performed during the first European leg and Perry sang "Born This Way" instead at selected dates, such as in Paris, France.
  • At selected dates of the second leg in Europe, Perry performed a mash-up of "The One That Got Away" and "Someone like You".
  • On August 5, Rebecca Black joined Perry onstage to perform "Friday".

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, number of available tickets, and amount of gross revenue
Date City Country Venue Opening act Attendance Revenue
Leg 1 — Europe
February 20, 2011 Lisbon Portugal Campo Pequeno DJ Skeet Skeet 6,162 / 6,271 $283,541
February 23, 2011 Milan Italy Mediolanum Forum 11,218 / 11,218 $458,765
February 25, 2011 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion 5,111 / 5,111 $343,709
February 26, 2011 Munich Germany Zenith Munich 5,883 / 5,883 $227,176
February 27, 2011 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle 12,332 / 12,570 $700,273
March 4, 2011 Berlin Germany Max-Schmeling-Halle 7,443 / 8,950 $331,308
March 6, 2011 Frankfurt Jahrhunderthalle 4,800 / 4,800 $201,365
March 7, 2011 Paris France Zénith de Paris 12,149 / 12,149 $767,981
March 8, 2011
March 10, 2011 Brussels Belgium Forest National 8,000 / 8,000 $378,028
March 11, 2011 Cologne Germany Palladium Köln 4,008 / 4,008 $177,640
March 14, 2011 Hamburg Alsterdorfer Sporthalle 6,916 / 6,916 $269,295
March 15, 2011 Amsterdam Netherlands Heineken Music Hall 5,462 / 5,607 $259,120
March 17, 2011 London England Hammersmith Apollo 14,777 / 14,777 $593,333
March 18, 2011
March 19, 2011
March 21, 2011 Manchester O2 Apollo Manchester 7,057 / 7,221 $258,929
March 22, 2011
March 27, 2011 Liverpool Echo Arena Liverpool 11,052 / 11,052 $398,646
March 28, 2011 Dublin Ireland O2 Dublin 9,122 / 9,122 $413,390
March 30, 2011 Nottingham England Motorpoint Arena Nottingham 9,095 / 9,095 $327,291
March 31, 2011 Bournemouth Windsor Hall 6,211 / 6,306 $223,635
April 1, 2011 Cardiff Wales Motorpoint Arena Cardiff 7,530 / 7,530 $272,067
April 3, 2011 Newcastle England Metro Radio Arena 11,304 / 11,304 $412,296
April 4, 2011 Birmingham Genting Arena 14,999 / 14,999 $543,572
April 5, 2011 Glasgow Scotland SEC Centre Hall 4 5,460 / 5,460 $198,206
April 9, 2011 London England Wembley Arena 11,251 / 11,507 $466,903
Leg 2 — Oceania
April 28, 2011 Melbourne Australia Rod Laver Arena Zowie 24,649 / 24,649 $2,228,150
April 29, 2011
May 2, 2011 Adelaide Adelaide Entertainment Centre 8,805 / 9,426 $803,497
May 4, 2011 Sydney Sydney Entertainment Centre 22,834 / 24,146 $2,031,140
May 5, 2011 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre 23,910 / 27,144 $2,107,890
May 7, 2011 Auckland New Zealand Vector Arena 22,905 / 23,938 $1,435,140
May 8, 2011
May 10, 2011 Wellington TSB Bank Arena 5,726 / 5,830 $381,959
May 13, 2011 Newcastle Australia Newcastle Entertainment Centre Zowie
DJ Skeet Skeet		 7,043 / 7,407 $706,342
May 14, 2011 Sydney Sydney Entertainment Centre Zowie
May 15, 2011 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Leg 3 — Asia
May 22, 2011 Nagoya Japan Zepp Nagoya N/a N/a N/a
May 23, 2011 Tokyo Studio Coast
May 24, 2011
May 26, 2011 Osaka Zepp Osaka
Leg 4 — North America
June 7, 2011 Duluth United States The Arena at Gwinnett Center Robyn
DJ Skeet Skeet		 10,341 / 10,341 $460,845
June 9, 2011 Orlando UCF Arena 7,792 / 7,792 $350,640
June 10, 2011 Tampa St. Pete Times Forum Robyn 10,558 / 10,558 $441,652
June 11, 2011 Sunrise BankAtlantic Center 12,014 / 12,014 $488,685
June 14, 2011 Raleigh RBC Center Robyn
DJ Skeet Skeet		 10,352 / 10,352 $429,952
June 15, 2011 Columbia Merriweather Post Pavilion 17,553 / 18,000 $538,879
June 17, 2011 Uniondale Nassau Coliseum 12,358 / 12,615 $580,647
June 18, 2011 Boston TD Garden 12,589 / 12,589 $577,977
June 19, 2011 Newark Prudential Center 13,321 / 13,321 $580,198
June 23, 2011 Pittsburgh Petersen Events Center Marina and the Diamonds
DJ Skeet Skeet		 8,610 / 8,610 $387,450
June 24, 2011 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 14,931 / 14,931 $631,978
June 25, 2011 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena 5,323 / 5,323 $239,535
June 28, 2011 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 14,144 / 14,144 $559,870
June 29, 2011 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 28,794 / 28,794 $1,260,890
June 30, 2011
July 2, 2011 Montreal Bell Centre 12,906 / 12,906 $607,562
July 3, 2011 Ottawa Scotiabank Place 13,426 / 13,596 $620,394
July 5, 2011 Cleveland United States Quicken Loans Arena 11,602 / 11,836 $413,850
July 7, 2011 Milwaukee Marcus Amphitheater 20,417 / 20,764 $596,935
July 13, 2011 Regina Canada Brandt Centre Janelle Monáe
DJ Skeet Skeet		 6,296 / 6,466 $306,020
July 14, 2011 Winnipeg MTS Centre 11,405 / 11,695 $542,272
July 16, 2011 Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome 12,357 / 12,727 $719,219
July 17, 2011 Edmonton Rexall Place 13,701 / 13,750 $600,540
July 19, 2011 Vancouver Rogers Arena 13,359 / 13,906 $670,037
July 20, 2011 Seattle United States KeyArena Robyn
DJ Skeet Skeet		 12,294 / 12,609 $437,120
July 22, 2011 Portland Rose Garden 10,259 / 11,059 $392,854
July 23, 2011 Boise Taco Bell Arena 7,747 / 7,995 $310,440
July 25, 2011 Salt Lake City EnergySolutions Arena 11,745 / 12,080 $432,840
July 26, 2011 Broomfield 1stBank Center 5,608 / 5,868 $259,602
July 28, 2011 Grand Prairie Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie 6,431 / 6,431 $289,395
July 29, 2011 Houston Toyota Center 12,235 / 12,235 $511,777
July 30, 2011 Austin Frank Erwin Center 8,429 / 8,429 $379,305
August 3, 2011 Phoenix Comerica Theatre 4,741 / 4,925 $186,145
August 5, 2011 Los Angeles Nokia Theatre L.A. Live 20,769 / 20,769 $745,534
August 6, 2011
August 7, 2011
August 9, 2011 San Diego Valley View Casino Center Oh Land
DJ Skeet Skeet		 10,306 / 10,306 $431,760
August 12, 2011 San Jose HP Pavilion 12,373 / 12,660 $500,445
August 13, 2011 Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Bowl Oh Land 9,698 / 9,698 $382,012
August 14, 2011
August 17, 2011 Kansas City Sprint Center Janelle Monáe 12,995 / 12,995 $469,625
August 19, 2011 Nashville Bridgestone Arena Janelle Monáe
DJ Skeet Skeet		 12,122 / 12,122 $500,567
August 20, 2011 St. Louis Scottrade Center 12,005 / 12,005 $497,910
August 21, 2011 Rosemont Allstate Arena Natalia Kills 13,617 / 13,617 $482,205
August 23, 2011 St. Paul Xcel Energy Center 14,402 / 14,402 $476,819
September 1, 2011 Zapopan Mexico Telmex Auditorium Natalia Kills
DJ Skeet Skeet		 8,451 / 8,578 $598,316
September 3, 2011 Mexico City Palacio de los Deportes 16,869 / 16,884 $707,031
September 5, 2011 Monterrey Arena Monterrey 9,944 / 9,958 $633,530
September 7, 2011 San Antonio United States AT&T Center Janelle Monáe
DJ Skeet Skeet		 9,733 / 10,165 $398,565
September 8, 2011 New Orleans New Orleans Arena 11,496 / 11,496 $474,350
September 10, 2011 Louisville KFC Yum! Center 13,555 / 13,555 $599,319
September 13, 2011 Columbus Nationwide Arena N/a N/a
September 14, 2011 Indianapolis Conseco Fieldhouse 9,693 / 10,360 $408,062
September 16, 2011 Omaha CenturyLink Center Omaha 9,967 / 13,440 $438,735
September 17, 2011 Tulsa BOK Center 12,475 / 12,475 $519,442
Leg 5 — South America
September 23, 2011 Rio de Janeiro Brazil Parque dos Atletas N/a N/a N/a
September 25, 2011 São Paulo Chácara do Jóquei DJ Skeet Skeet 25,784 / 25,784 $2,705,710
September 27, 2011 Buenos Aires Argentina Estadio G.E.B.A. N/a N/a
Leg 6 — Europe
October 12, 2011 Sheffield England Motorpoint Arena Sheffield Oh Land
DJ Skeet Skeet		 12,650 / 12,650 $543,527
October 14, 2011 London The O2 Arena 31,250 / 31,708 $1,474,670
October 15, 2011
October 18, 2011 Liverpool Echo Arena Liverpool N/a N/a
October 19, 2011 Cardiff Wales Motorpoint Arena Cardiff
October 24, 2011 Belfast Northern Ireland Odyssey Arena 9,932 / 9,932 $493,104
October 26, 2011 Birmingham England National Indoor Arena 13,581 / 13,581 $597,314
October 27, 2011 Newcastle Metro Radio Arena N/a N/a
October 29, 2011 Aberdeen Scotland Press & Journal Arena
October 31, 2011 Manchester England Manchester Evening News Arena 15,429 / 15,429 $679,914
November 1, 2011 Glasgow Scotland SEC Centre Hall 4 N/a N/a
November 3, 2011
November 4, 2011
November 5, 2011 Nottingham England Capital FM Arena Nottingham
November 7, 2011 Dublin Ireland The O2 18,250 / 18,250 $935,460
November 8, 2011
Leg 7 — North America
November 15, 2011 Hartford United States XL Center Ellie Goulding 9,998 / 10,500 $401,772
November 16, 2011 New York City Madison Square Garden N/a N/a
November 19, 2011 Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Events Center
November 21, 2011 Oakland Oracle Arena 12,303 / 12,303 $554,075
November 22, 2011 Los Angeles Staples Center 13,332 / 13,332 $569,016
November 23, 2011 N/a N/a
Leg 8 — Asia
January 19, 2012 Bogor Indonesia Sentul Auditorium N/a N/a N/a
January 22, 2012 Manila Philippines SM Mall of Asia Concert Grounds
Total 1,069,921 / 1,090,011 (98.15%) $52,125,081

Personnel

Main

  • Show Director — Baz Halpin
  • Production & Lighting Design — Baz Halpin & Chris Nyfield
  • Production Manager — Jay Schmit
  • Programming — Baz Halpin & Bryan Barancik
  • Lighting Director — Brad Teagan
  • Lighting Crew Chief — John Chiodo
  • Lighting Crew — Mat Hamilton, Andy Cimerman, Wayne Kwiat, & Daniel Kirkman
  • Video Director — Richy Parkin
  • Video Producer — Olivier Goulet
  • Video Technical Director — Olivier Goulet
  • Video Projectionist — Jason Lowe
  • Video Tech — Gordon Davis
  • Tour Manager — Fitzroy Hellin
  • Stage Manager — Aaron Draude
  • Event Manager — Jordan Ford
  • General Management — Meghan Brown
  • Riggers — Chuck Melton & John Williamson
  • Pyro — Phil Maggs
  • Lighting Company — Upstaging Inc.
  • Video Company — Chaos Visual Productions
  • Set Construction — ShowFX Inc.
  • Staging Company — All Access Staging & Productions
  • Lasers — Laser Design Productions
  • Photography — Baz Halpin & Todd Kaplan
  • Fashion Stylist — Meghan Brown
  • Dancers — Leah Adler, Lockhart Brownlie, Anthony Burrell, Lexie Contursi, Ashley Ashida Dixon, Brandee Evans, Bryan Gaw, Malik LeNost, Rachael Markarian, Scott Myrick, Cassidy Noblett, Anne Stenberg, & Darine Stenberg

Band

Notes

  1. ↑ The February 23, 2011 concert in Milan at Mediolanum Forum was originally scheduled to take place at PalaSharp, but was rescheduled due to high demand.
  2. ↑ The February 27, 2011 concert in Vienna at Wiener Stadthalle was originally scheduled to take place at Gasometer, but was rescheduled due to high demand.
  3. ↑ The March 4, 2011 concert in Berlin at Max-Schmeling-Halle was originally scheduled to take place at Columbiahalle, but was rescheduled due to high demand.
  4. ↑ The March 6, 2011 concert in Frankfurt at Jahrhunderthalle was originally scheduled to take place in Offenbach at Stadthalle Offenbach, but was rescheduled due to high demand.
  5. 1 2 3 4 The score data is combined from the two shows held at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on May 4 and 14 respectively.
  6. 1 2 3 4 The score data is combined from the two shows held at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on May 5 and 15 respectively.
  7. ↑ The July 7, 2011 concert in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Marcus Amphitheater was a part of Summerfest 2011.
  8. ↑ The July 16, 2011 in Calgary, ALberta at the Scotiabank Saddledome was a part of the Calgary Stampede.
  9. ↑ The August 21, 2011 concert in Rosemont, Illinois at the Allstate Arena was originally scheduled to take place on July 8, but was postponed due to Perry having food poisoning.
  10. ↑ The August 23, 2011 concert in St. Paul, Minnesota at the Xcel Energy Center was originally scheduled to take place on July 9, but was postponed due to Perry having food poisoning.
  11. ↑ The September 23, 2011 concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the City of Rock was a part of Rock in Rio V festival.
  12. ↑ The September 27, 2011 concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Estadio G.E.B.A. was a part of the Pepsi Music Festival.
  13. ↑ The November 23, 2011 concert in Los Angeles at Staples Center was a free concert as a thank you from Perry to her fans.

References

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  5. ↑ "Watch Katy Perry covering Adele's 'Someone Like You' – video". NME. October 15, 2011. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Katy Perry and Rebecca Black Sing 'Friday' Together Onstage (VIDEO)". Huffpost Celebrity. August 8, 2011.
  7. ↑ European box score data:
  8. ↑ Oceania box score data:
  9. ↑ "Katy Perry expands 2011 world tour". The Independent. London: Independent Print Limited. December 8, 2010. Archived from the original on December 10, 2010. Retrieved December 8, 2010.
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  14. ↑ "Katy Perry Headlines Summerfest 2011 Performances". WISN-TV. Hearst Television. January 19, 2011. Archived from the original on April 3, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
  15. ↑ "Katy Perry to play at Calgary Stampede". Calgary Herald. January 19, 2011. Archived from the original on February 7, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
  16. 1 2 "Katy Perry postpones Chicago, St. Paul concerts". USA Today. July 8, 2011. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
  17. ↑ "Katy Perry fará show em São Paulo em setembro". Jornal do Brasil (in Portuguese). May 25, 2011. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
  18. ↑ "Natalia Kills added to Two More "California Dreams" Tour Dates". Cherrytree. August 11, 2011. Archived from the original on September 26, 2015. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
  19. ↑ "Elton John, Rihanna e Katy Perry no Rock in Rio do Brasil" [Elton John, Rihanna, and Katy Perry at Rock in Rio in Brazil]. Correio da Manhã (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on February 1, 2011. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  20. ↑ "Argentina: confirman shows de grandes leyendas del rock" [Argentina: confirm shows great legends of rock]. La Nación (in Spanish). July 6, 2011. Archived from the original on October 3, 2011. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
  21. ↑ North American box score data:
  22. ↑ Philiana Ng (November 11, 2011). "Katy Perry Announces Free Concert at Staples Center". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 21, 2018.
  23. ↑ "Katy Perry to take a year off to start a family". Zee News. November 19, 2011. Archived from the original on November 23, 2011. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  24. ↑ "Katy Perry to hold concert in Manila next year". ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs. November 8, 2011. Archived from the original on November 23, 2011. Retrieved November 23, 2011.