Juntos en Concierto
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Jennifer Lopez & Marc Anthony en concierto was a concert tour by American recording artists Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television personality, and fashion designer. Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color. Subsequently venturing into acting, she gained recognition in the 1995 action-thriller...

 and Marc Anthony
Marc Anthony
Marc Anthony is an American singer-songwriter, actor and producer. Anthony is the top selling tropical salsa artist of all time. The two-time Grammy and three-time Latin Grammy–winner has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. He is best known for his Latin salsa numbers and ballads...

. The tour began on September 28, 2007, and ended on November 7, 2007, only reaching North America.

Background

The tour was announced by Live Nation
Live Nation
Live Nation is a live-events company based in Beverly Hills, California, focused on concert promotions. Live Nation formed in 2005 as a spin-off from Clear Channel Communications, which then merged with Ticketmaster in 2010 to become Live Nation Entertainment....

 during the summer of 2007. As a performer, Marc Anthony was completed several tours with his "Juntos en Concierto" concert. Here, Anthony would be joined on stage by other latin pop
Latin pop
Latin pop generally refers to pop music that has what may be perceived a Latin American influence...

 singers (including Laura Pasini,Cheyenne, Alejandro Fernandez and Marco Antonio Solis), touring hispanophone
Hispanophone
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 regions within the United States
United States
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 and South America
South America
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. The concert series became an annual event for Anthony, beginning in 2004. As for Lopez, this tour marks her first. Previously, she has performed in Puerto Rico for her "Let's Get Loud" concerts. After the released her fourth studio album, Rebirth
Rebirth (Jennifer Lopez album)
"Rebirth" received an aggregate score of 52/100 from Metacritic, denoting "Mixed or average reviews". Allmusic gave the album four stars and stated that "Since it doesn't deviate from the blueprint she's followed on her first three albums, it's hard to call this record a literal creative rebirth,...

, Lopez planned a tour stating: "I've tried to plan a tour so many times […] and we're planning it again. It's exciting. [This is] just me doing my thing. We'll see if it happens. I've learned not to get my hopes up". The tour did not materialize as Lopez focused on her acting career. Lopez commented on the tour saying:
"I'm going to do a couple of new songs, obviously from this album, and also from my Spanish album, and then of course my old, kinda standard hits. This is the first time, so a lot of my fans haven't gotten to see me at all perform these songs, so I'm going to try to pick all the best ones that they want to see. But you never know."


Anthony describes the tour as:
"It's just a monster show. As we creep up to it, just in a couple days, that's when I'm getting the magnitude of this, you know what I'm saying? I sit back and watch her set, and it's exciting. I'm so proud of her."


For the tour, one dollar from each ticket sold was donated to "Run for Something Better"—a charitable organization supporting physical fitness programs for children.

Pregnancy

While touring, numerous media outlet reported Lopez's pregnancy. Within the next following days, photographs surfaces of Lopez's tour costumes, showing a slight belly bump. Neither Lopez nor Anthony commented on these rumors. At the tour's final stop in Miami, Florida, Lopez announced her pregnancy, with the couple stating they did not want to take away from the tour.

Setlist

Additional notes

  • During her performance of "All I Have" at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Lopez was joined onstage by LL Cool J
    LL Cool J
    James Todd Smith , better known as LL Cool J , is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and actor...

    . At the same concert, Lopez was joined onstage by Fat Joe
    Fat Joe
    Joseph Antonio Cartagena , better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper, CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, and member of musical groups D.I.T.C. and Terror Squad....

     during the performance of "Hold You Down"
  • "Me Haces Falta" was not performed at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California

Tour dates

Date City Country Venue
North America
September 28, 2007 Atlantic City
Atlantic City, New Jersey
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United States
United States
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Etess Arena
September 29, 2007
October 3, 2007 Uncasville
Montville, Connecticut
Montville is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 18,546 at the 2000 census and 19,571 at the 2010 census....

Mohegan Sun Arena
Mohegan Sun Arena
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October 5, 2007 Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
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Verizon Center
Verizon Center
Verizon Center is a sports and entertainment arena in Washington, D.C., USA, named after telecommunications sponsor Verizon Communications, and has been nicknamed the "Phone Booth" because of its association with telecommunications companies...

October 7, 2007 New York City
New York City
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Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden
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October 8, 2007
October 10, 2007 Toronto
Toronto
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Canada
Canada
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Air Canada Centre
Air Canada Centre
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October 12, 2007 Montreal
Montreal
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Bell Centre
Bell Centre
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October 14, 2007 Chicago
Chicago
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United States United Center
United Center
The United Center is an indoor sports arena located in Chicago. It is named after its corporate sponsor, United Airlines. The United Center is home to both the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association and the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League...

October 17, 2007 San Jose
San Jose, California
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HP Pavilion at San Jose
October 19, 2007 Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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Staples Center
Staples Center
Staples Center is a multi-purpose sports arena in Downtown Los Angeles. Adjacent to the L.A. Live development, it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention Center complex along Figueroa Street. Opening on October 17, 1999, it is one of the major sporting facilities in the Greater Los Angeles...

October 20, 2007 Anaheim
Anaheim, California
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Honda Center
October 24, 2007 San Diego Cox Arena at Aztec Bowl
October 26, 2007 Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
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MGM Grand Garden Arena
October 30, 2007 Dallas American Airlines Center
American Airlines Center
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October 31, 2007 Houston Toyota Center
Toyota Center (Houston)
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November 2, 2007 Miami American Airlines Arena
November 3, 2007
November 4, 2007 Orlando
Orlando, Florida
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Amway Arena
November 7, 2007 Miami American Airlines Arena


Cancellations and rescheduled shows
November 23, 2007 San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...

José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum
José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum
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November 24, 2007 Caguas, Puerto Rico
Caguas, Puerto Rico
Caguas , founded in 1775, is a city and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Central Mountain Range of Puerto Rico, south of San Juan and Trujillo Alto, west of Gurabo and San Lorenzo, east of Aguas Buenas, Cidra, and Cayey....

Coliseo Héctor Solá Besares
Coliseo Héctor Solá Besares
Coliseo Héctor Solá Besares is an indoor sporting arena located in Caguas, Puerto Rico. It is used mostly for basketball and is the home arena of Caguas Creoles of the National Superior Basketball league...

November 25, 2007 Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ponce is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government.The city of Ponce, the fourth most populated in Puerto Rico, and the most populated outside of the San Juan metropolitan area, is named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the...

Juan Pachín Vicéns Auditorium
Juan Pachín Vicéns Auditorium
The Auditorio Juan Pachín Vicéns , formerly, Coliseo Juan Pachín Vicéns, is a sports venue in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico...


Cancellation reason unknown but might have been contributed to Lopez's pregnancy

Box office score data

Venue City Tickets Sold / Available Gross Revenue
Verizon Center Washington, D.C. 9,006 / 15,504 (58%) $858,184
Bell Centre Montreal 11,422 / 11,422 (100%) $1,186,301

Critical reception

  • Kelefa Sanneh (The New York Times
    The New York Times
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    ) gave the tour a mixed review. Although he praised Anthony's performance, he had doubts about Lopez stating, "But no one expects Ms. Lopez to morph into a lung-busting powerhouse, and in some ways her shaky voice may add to her appeal: on the stage of an arena (and perhaps nowhere else), the A-list star is once more an underdog, getting by with a little help from her band and her husband and a few thousand friends".

  • Justin Smith (Pegasus News
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    ) described the Anthony's performance as a throwback to the 1970's Tropicana Club
    Tropicana Club
    Tropicana is a world known cabaret and club in Havana, Cuba. It was launched in 1939 at Villa Mina, a six-acre suburban estate with lush tropical gardens in Havana's Marianao neighborhood.-Influence:...

    . He further stated: "[Anthony] has a voice so powerful and seductive, it is no surprise that every woman in the audience melted the second the opening note was sung. The band pumped out the salsa clave just like it would have been at the Tropicana in New York in the 1970's, and I desperately wanted to get up and dance."

  • Jane Stevenson (Jam! Showbiz
    Jam!
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    ) praised Anthony's performance but thought less of Lopez's skills remarking: "For Lopez, it's more about coming up with some kick-ass dance moves to distract and divert from her weak voice. JLo can usually shake her ample behind with the best of them given her Fly Girl history on In Living Color but with an apparent bun in the oven, Lopez's movements were kept to a minimum -- she performed them in short spurts with the exception of Get Right -- and let her dancers take over most of the A-moves."
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