Click here to read what Mariah's Boston Fans have to say about the concert!!!

Hey everyone! Oh where to even begin. It sure seems like I waited for this concert forever, and it went by so fast. My future plans for this page are my thoughts on the Boston Globe concert review, posting more of your reviews of the show, and giving more detail about the concert itself. Please do not use any of these photos without my permission. Thank you! On to the show...

Well first off, I was able to get special seats by being a member of Mariah's Official Fan Club. I didn't win the backstage passes :( but I was able to send a special gift to Mariah that someone from the executive office at the Fleet Center promised to personally hand to Mariah's Tour Manager as soon as she saw her. It is a cross stitch of the Rainbow album cover that my sister made. Here's a pic of it on the right. Whether or not Mariah got the gift, I may never know :(

So we went to the concert by limo, and being in the limo, listening to the #1s CD as the sun is setting, it feels like you're in an episode of MTV's Fanatic. I listened to the #1s CD on the way there, and it ended just as we arrived.

The Fleet Center in Boston, MA on this night was the rescheduled tour date of Mariah's "Rainbow Tour" that was originally scheduled for April 4, 2000. As I'm sure most of you know, Mariah had to postpone the concert after eating raw oysters in Georgia and suffering from food poisoning. It didn't matter that this show was rescheduled, as none of her fans seemed to care, as long as we got to see the concert.

Arriving at the Fleet...very hard to find your way around, but after going through some kind of maze we're told to go through this curtain where a security guy is standing. We walk through and it takes us right on to the floor of the Fleet Center. Our seats were exactly 13 rows from the stage, very center!!! Obviously there were 12 rows in front of us, but row 13 is VERY CLOSE in a place as large as the Fleet Center. Oh, by this time I had bought 2 programs, and planned to buy more items later seeing the lines were so long at that time.

So it was a very long wait as we got there very early, we didn't have to wait in any traffic! Immediately I recognized a guy sitting in my row that was at the MC Homecoming Special, and 1 other guy that I think was there. I was invited to attend that event, but could not make it :( Anyway, Mariah's Fan Club members were all in the same section and all seemed like very nice people! Of course, right? :) A couple behind us had been given their tickets by a friend who couldn't make the rescheduled date. They basically praised MC and said it was so nice that these young people had her to look up to. Oh, I brought 2 disposable cameras and wasn't sure if I could use them because I've heard it's hard to get them in. However, cameras were not only allowed, but WELCOMED. Ushers actually took photos of fans together, and allowed fans to get up closer to take pictures! Amazing. So I took about 60 pictures, but not all of them came out as something went wrong with the second camera.

I didn't have a watch, but I noticed someone's said 8:05, then a few more minutes went by, and then the lights went down. So everyone was expecting Da Brat, but just before this I heard someone say Da Brat wasn't here??? I figured even if she wasn't there, then some other act would be. They start playing the skits of all the celebrities (Aretha Franklin, Donny and Marie, Joan Rivers, etc.) talking about Mariah and Bianca.

The crowd is very in to this opening "film". For those of you not familiar with Mariah and Bianca, or some other things that I may refer to, I'll explain later (all MC fans will know though). Next we hear Thunder.

The Petals/Rainbow Intro plays, and towards the back of the stage we see Mariah?

Then, amazingly, all of a sudden, from under the front of the stage, Mariah appears!!! How can this be? No opening act? nothing? All of a sudden she is there, in front of everyone!! And everyone is so excited. She opened with "Emotions", and it was so hard to believe the concert had started. A show of only Mariah?

After "Emotions", Mariah told us we were going to be on MTV!! She introduced the winners of the video contest, you know? the one where you had to send in a video showing what "Mariah's Theme" means to you, and some lucky winners would get picked and then chosen to meet Mariah and have their video clip appear in one of Mariah's videos. She let every winner introduce themselves, gave them hugs, and said she would meet with them later backstage. I know someone gave her a fan book, but I can't remember if it was one of the MTV winners, or someone she brought up on stage later on. Mariah said she loved reading fan books! So watch for this on MTV real soon!

Next she sang "My All" and "Always by my baby". Mariah talked to the crowd constantly between each song and said she knew she just had to get back to Boston! She also thanked the people at Mass. General Hospital for taking such good care of her.

Click here to go to page 2 and see what happens when it's Mariah vs. Bianca!!!