Performances: The Fame Monster era

The first glimpse of The Fame Monster era happened on October 3rd, 2009 during her acoustic rendition of a few lines from the still unheard single at the time, Bad Romance on Saturday Night Live. The first broadcasted performances were at the American Music Awards and on The Jay Leno Show respectively. Lady Gaga and Kanye West were planned to do the Fame Kills: Starring Lady Gaga and Kanye West tour but following the 2009 VMAs incident, they decided to cancelled it. Lady Gaga took some of her ideas from her then unnamed world tour and the short lived Fame Kills to create the first incarnation of the Monster Ball. This "Theater Version" (or Monster Ball 1.0) became a north american exclusive tour as three weeks into the tour, Gaga revealed her plan with Live Nation to scrap the stage design in order to bring it to arena. The Theater Version came to an end after 36 shows. Thus, leading to the "Arena Version" (or reworked / Monster Ball 2.0) which took place from February 18, 2010 until May 6 of 2011 for a grand total of 202 shows.

Shortened Monster Ball 1.0 for the Jingle Bell Ball in London.

2009

• Concerts
• Monster Ball 1.0
• Broadcast

Date	Location	City
Nov 4	Ballet Russe Italian Style (The Shortest Musical You Will Never See Again)	Los Angeles, LA

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Dates	Location	City

Nov 27	Bell Center	Montreal, QC
Nov 28	Air Canada Center	Toronto, ON
Nov 29	Scotiabank Place	Ottawa, ON
Dec 1	Wang Center	Boston, MA
Dec 2
Dec 3	Susquehanna Bank Center	Camden, NJ
Dec 5	Jingle Bell Ball1	London
Dec 9	Queen Elizabeth Theatre	Vancouver, BC
Dec 10
Dec 11
Dec 13	Bill Graham Civic	San Francisco, CA
Dec 14
Dec 17	Pearl Concert Theater	Las Vegas, NV
Dec 18
Dec 19	San Diego Sports Arena	San Diego, CA
Dec 21	Nokia Theatre	Los Angeles, CA
Dec 22
Dec 23
Dec 27	UNO Lakefront Arena	New Orleans, LA
Dec 28	Fox Theatre	Atlanta, GA
Dec 29
Dec 31	New Year's Eve 20101	Miami, FL

1. Used elements of "The Monster Ball".

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Date	Show	Media

Oct 3	Saturday Night Live	NBC
Oct 10	Human Rights Campaign National Dinner1	Web
Nov 22	American Music Awards2	ABC
Nov 23	The Jay Leno Show	NBC
Nov 27	The Ellen DeGeneres Show2
Dec 6	The X Factor	ITV
Dec 7	Royal Variety Performance2	NBC
Dec 8	VEVO Launch Event2	Web

1. "Imagine" (John Lennon Cover) 2. "Speechless"

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2010

• Concerts
• Monster Ball 1.0
• Monster Ball 2.0
• Broadcast

Dates	Location	City
Feb 10	amFAR	New York, NY
May 13	The Rainforest Fund
Jun 12	Duane Park
Sep 29	The Oak Room
Oct 2	We Are Plastic Ono Band	Los Angeles, CA

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Dates	Location	City

Jan 2	James L. Knight Center	Miami Beach, FL
Jan 3	UCF Arena	Orlando, FL
Jan 7	Fox Theatre	St. Louis, MO
Jan 8	Rosemont Theatre	Chicago, IL
Jan 9
Jan 10
Jan 12	Joe Louis Arena	Detroit, MI
Jan 13
Jan 20	Radio City Music Hall	New York, NY
Jan 21
Jan 22
January 23
January 24
January 26	Edward C. Elliott Hall of Music	W. Lafayette, IN

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Dates	Location	City

Feb 18	MEN Arena	Manchester
Feb 20	The O2 (Dublin)	Dublin
Feb 21
Feb 22	Odyssey Arena	Belfast
Feb 24	Liverpool Echo Arena	Liverpool
Feb 26	The O2 (London)	London
Feb 27
Mar 1	SECC	Glasgow
Mar 3	Cardiff International Arena	Cardiff
Mar 4	Metro Radio Arena	Newcastle
Mar 5	LG Arena	Birmingham
Oceania leg
Mar 13	Vector Arena	Auckland
Mar 14
Mar 17	Sydney Entertainment Centre	Sydney, NSW
Mar 18	Sydney Entertainment Centre
Mar 20	Newcastle Entertainment Centre	Newcastle, NSW
Mar 23	Rod Laver Arena	Melbourne, VIC
Mar 24
Mar 26	Brisbane Entertainment Centre	Brisbane, QLD
Mar 27
Mar 29	AIS Arena	Canberra, ACT
Apr 1	Burswood Dome	Perth, WA
Apr 3	Adelaide Entertainment Centre	Adelaide, SA
Apr 5	WIN Entertainment Centre	Wollongong, NSW
Apr 7	Sydney Entertainment Centre	Sydney, NSW
Apr 9	Rod Laver Arena	Melbourne, VIC
Apr 14	World Memorial Hall	Kobe
Apr 15
Apr 17	Yokohama Arena	Yokohama
Apr 18
May 7	Ericsson Globe	Stockholm
May 8
May 10	O2 World Hamburg	Hamburg
May 11	O2 World	Berlin
May 15	Gelredome XS	Arnhem
May 17	Sportpaleis Merksem	Antwerp
May 18
May 21	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	Paris
May 22
May 24	Konig Pilsner Arena	Oberhausen
May 25	Zénith	Strasbourg
May 27	Trent FM Arena Nottingham	Nottingham
May 28	LG Arena	Birmingham
May 30	The O2 Arena	London
May 31
Jun 2	MEN Arena	Manchester
Jun 3
Jun 4	Sheffield Arena	Sheffield
Jun 24	The White Tie and Tiara Ball [A]	Windsor
Jun 28	Bell Center	Montreal, Qc
Jul 1	TD Garden	Boston, MA
Jul 2
Jul 4	Boardwalk Hall	Atlantic City, NJ
Jul 6	Madison Square Garden Arena	New York, NY
Jul 7
Jul 9
Jul 11	Air Canada Center	Toronto, On
Jul 12
Jul 14	Quicken Loans Arena	Cleveland, OH
Jul 15	Conseco Fieldhouse	Indianapolis, IN
Jul 17	Scottrade Center	St. Louis, MO
Jul 20	Ford Center	Oklahoma City, OK
Jul 22	American Airlines Center	Dallas, TX
Jul 23
Jul 25	Toyota Center	Houston, TX
Jul 26
Jul 28	Pepsi Center	Denver, CO
Jul 31	Airways Center	Phoenix, AZ
Aug 3	Sprint Center	Kansas City, MO
Aug 6	Lollapalooza	Chicago,IL
Aug 11	Staples Center	Los Angeles, CA
Aug 12
Aug 13	MGM Grand	Las Vegas, NV
Aug 16	HP Pavilion at San Jose	San Jose, CA
Aug 17
Aug 19	Rose Garden	Portland, OR
Aug 21	Tacoma Dome	Tacoma, WA
Aug 23	General Motors Place	Vancouver, BC
Aug 24
Aug 26	Rexall Place	Edmonton AB
Aug 27
Aug 30	Xcel Energy Center	St. Paul, MN
Aug 31
Sep 2	Bradley Center	Milwaukee, WI
Sep 4	The Palace Of Auburn Hills	Detroit, MI
Sep 5	Consol Energy Center	Pittsburgh, PA
Sep 7	Verizon Center	Washington D.C., MD
Sep 8	John Paul Jones Arena	Charlottesville, VA
Sep 14	Wachovia Center	Philadelphia, PA
Sep 15
Sep 16	XL Center	Hartford, CT
Sep 18	Time Warner Cable Arena	Charlotte, NC
Sep 19	RBC Center	Raleigh, NC
Oct 13	Hartwall Arena	Helsinki
Oct 14
Oct 16	Oslo Spektrum	Oslo
Oct 17
Oct 20	MCH Multiarena	Herning
Oct 26	The O2 (Dublin)	Dublin
Oct 27
Oct 29
Oct 30	Odyssey Arena	Belfast
Nov 1
Nov 2
Nov 5	Arena Zagreb	Zagreb
Nov 7	Budapest Sports Arena	Budapest
Nov 9	PalaOlimpico	Turin
Nov 11	Wiener Stadthalle	Vienna
Nov 14	Hallenstadion	Zürich
Nov 15
Nov 17	O2 Arena	Prague
Nov 19	Malmö Arena	Malmö
Nov 22	Sportpaleis Merksem	Antwerp
Nov 23
Nov 26	Ergo Arena	Gdańsk
Nov 29	Ahoy	Rotterdam
Nov 30
Dec 2	Halle Tony Garnier	Lyon
Dec 4	Mediolanum Forum	Milan
Dec 5
Dec 7	Palau Sant Jordi	Barcelona
Dec 10	Pavilhão Atlântico	Lisbon
Dec 12	Palacio de Deportes	Madrid
Dec 16	The O2	London
Dec 17
Dec 20	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	Paris
Dec 21

[A] Special concert

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Date	Show	Media

Jan 15	The Oprah Winfrey Show1	NBC
Jan 31	The 52nd Annual Grammy Award Ceremony2	CBS
Feb 16	BRIT Awards	ITV
Mar 5	Friday Night with Jonathan Ross3	BBC One
Apr 16	Music Station	TV Asahi
Apr 20	GagaKoh4	Web
May 3	Costume Institute Gala	NBC
May 5	American Idol	Fox
July 9	The Today Show5	NBC

1. "Monster", "Speechless" 2. "Poker Face", "Speechless"/"Your Song" (with Elton John) 3. "Brown Eyes" 4. "Speechless" 5. "Someone To Watch Over Me", "Yoü and I", "Teeth"

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2011

• Concerts
• Monster Ball 2.0
• Broadcast

For club performances of Born This Way, see Born This Way era

Dates	Location	City
Jan 5	The Oak Room	New York, NY

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Dates	Location	City

Feb 19	Boardwalk Hall	Atlantic City, NJ
Feb 21	Madison Square Garden A	New York, NY
Feb 22
Feb 24	Verizon Center	Washington D.C., MD
Feb 26	Consol Energy Center	Pittsburgh, PA
Feb 28	United Center	Chicago, IL
Mar 1	Van Andel Arena	Grand Rapids, MI
Mar 3	Air Canada Centre	Toronto, ON
Mar 4	HSBC Arena	Buffalo, NY
Mar 6	Scotiabank Place	Ottawa, ON
Mar 8	TD Garden	Boston, MA
Mar 10	Jerome Schottenstein Center	Columbus, OH
Mar 12	KFC Yum! Center	Louisville, KY
Mar 14	American Airlines Center	Dallas, TX
Mar 15	AT&T Center	San Antonio, TX
Mar 19	EnergySolutions Arena	Salt Lake City, UT
Mar 22	Oracle Arena	Oakland, CA
Mar 23	ARCO Arena	Sacramento, CA
Mar 25	MGM Grand Garden Arena	Las Vegas, NV
Mar 26	US Airways Center	Phoenix, AZ
Mar 28	Staples Center	Los Angeles, CA
Mar 29	Viejas Arena	San Diego, CA
Mar 31	Honda Center	Anaheim, CA
Apr 4	BOK Center	Tulsa, OK
Apr 6	Frank Erwin Center	Austin, TX
Apr 8	Toyota Center	Houston, TX
Apr 9	New Orleans Arena	New Orleans, LA
Apr 12	BankAtlantic Center	Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Apr 13	American Airlines Arena	Miami, FL
Apr 15	Amway Center	Orlando, FL
Apr 16	St. Pete Times Forum	Tampa, FL
Apr 18	The Arena at Gwinnett Center	Duluth, GA
Apr 19	Bridgestone Arena	Nashville, TN
Apr 22	Prudential Center	Newark, NJ
Apr 23	Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum	Uniondale, NY
Apr 25	Bell Centre	Montreal, QC
Apr 27	Quicken Loans Arena	Cleveland, OH
May 3	Estadio Tres de Marzo	Zapopan, GDL
May 5	Foro Sol	Mexico City
May 6

[A] On February 21 and 22, recorded the show for "Lady Gaga Presents The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden" the HBO special and DVD.

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Date	Show	Media
May 7	Gaga Presents: The Monster Ball at Madison Square Garden1	HBO

1. The full setlist of the Monster Ball 2.0 was recorded except some interludes.

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Links

2005-07: Amateur years

2008-09: The Fame

2009-11: The Fame Monster

2011-13: Born This Way

2013-14: ARTPOP

2014-16: Cheek to Cheek

2016-20: Joanne

2020-24: Chromatica

— PERFORMANCES — Tours Broadcasted Performances Dancers Band Concerts in: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Era Discography Super Deluxe The Remix The Singles Videography Performances The Monster Ball Tour Fashion Media "Bad Romance" "Alejandro" "Monster" "Speechless" "Dance in the Dark" "Telephone" (feat. Beyoncé) "So Happy I Could Die" "Teeth"