Best Of Both Worlds Tour 07-08

The Best of Both Worlds Tour was a 2007-2008 North American concert tour featuring singer, songwriter and actress Miley Cyrus of the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana, performing both as a solo artist and in character as Hannah Montana. The tour is named after the theme song for the series, "The Best of Both Worlds", which reflects the dual nature of the series' character. The tour had the most in-demand concert tickets of 2007. The concert tour was choreographed, created and directed by Kenny Ortega, the director and choreographer of High School Musical, High School Musical 2, and The Cheetah Girls 2. The concert in Salt Lake City, Utah was recorded for the live album and was also aired on Radio Disney with interviews with Miley on April 2008 as a part of Planet Premiere.



The tour followed the June 2007 release of Cyrus's double album Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus. The tour began on October 18, 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri and was initially scheduled to end on January 9, 2008 in Albany, New York. One dollar of each ticket from the tour went to benefit the City of Hope Foundation, which helps in fighting against cancer. The Jonas Brothers were the opening act for the first leg of the tour. They played a total of 54 shows on the tour. In December, An additional 14 concerts had been added to the tour, beginning in Detroit on January 11 and ending in Miami on January 31. After the Jonas Brothers decided not to continue on the tour, Aly & AJ were chosen as the replacement to be the opening act from January 11 to January 24. The opening for the last leg of the tour was Everlife. The last leg of the tour included six dates, ending on January 31 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida.

Tickets controversy
Tickets for the Best Of Both Worlds Tour have been selling out for every show, with many shows selling out in just five minutes or less. Many tickets for the shows can then be found almost immediately after purchase on eBay, StubHub, or other secondary markets selling for well over the face value of the tickets. The Arkansas Attorney General's office said, “All hell broke loose with Hannah Montana. The tickets were gone in 12 minutes and when people turned around, they were selling at online sites for sometimes as much as 10 times the face value.” They promised an investigation, as did authorities in Missouri. Some of the tickets were selling for over $1,000. The shortage of tickets for the Cyrus/Montana tour became so pronounced that it gained national attention, with The New York Times using it and the concurrent Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Magic Tour as examples of how the general public is losing out on ticket sales and how some ticket brokers have cracked Ticketmaster's defenses to gain a stranglehold on tickets. The Times, The Los Angeles Times and the Houston Chronicle all profiled several families unable to get tickets and balancing the cost of the secondary market against their child's disappointment. For their part, a Ticketmaster official said, "Hell hath no fury like the parent of a child throwing a tantrum. People who have been in this business for a long time are watching what's happening, and they say there hasn't been a demand of this level or intensity since the Beatles or Elvis." A vice president for tour promoter AEG Live said that, "The tickets are priced and sold as fairly as possible. I can assure you this is no conspiracy. We do everything in our power to stop brokers from getting tickets, but it's impossible. There has also been a controversy between Hannah Haters, whether or not there should be this much cotroversy over something as simple as tickets."

On November 13, 2007, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of frustrated fan club members unable to get tickets, against MileyWorld (the Miley Cyrus fan club) and its agents. In late November, MileyWorld had a special offer to give MileyWorld members a chance to buy tickets. For the Lexington, Kentucky show, Ticketmaster stated they would sell "will-call" tickets on the date of the concert; such date-of-show "ticket drops" have been a common anti-scalping practice for years on Bruce Springsteen tours. When tickets for the added January itinerary shows went on sale on December 15, patterns repeated; only a few lottery-style winnings at Ticketmaster outlets were able to purchase tickets, while Ticketmaster phone banks were tied up across multiple states and did not provide many buying chances either.


Jonas Brothers opening
"Kids of the Future"
"Just Friends"
"That's Just the Way We Roll"
"Hello Beautiful"
"Goodnight and Goodbye"
"Hold On"
"SOS"
Aly & AJ opening "Closure"
"Division"
"Potential Breakup Song"
"Insomniatic"
"Bullseye"
"No One"
"Like Whoa"


Hannah Montana
"Rock Star"
"Life's What You Make It"
"Just Like You"
"Old Blue Jeans"
"Nobody's Perfect"
"Pumpin' Up the Party"
"I Got Nerve"
"We Got the Party" with the Jonas Brothers (first leg)
"Rock and Roll All Nite" with Aly and AJ (second leg)



Note: When Aly & AJ started the extension leg of the tour, on January 11th, 2008, they sang a cover of KISS's Rock and Roll All Nite with Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana. When Everlife continued for the last leg of the tour, they also sang the song. This served as a substitute of the song "We Got the Party". When "We Got the Party" was performed, a double was used for around thirty seconds of the song to give Miley time to eat before changing into Miley Cyrus. This is due to Miley being hypoglycemic. This has been confirmed by the tour publicist and Miley Cyrus.


Jonas Brothers Interlude "When You Look Me in the Eyes"
"Year 3000"


Aly & AJ Interlude
"Chemicals React"
"Rush"


Miley Cyrus
"Start All Over"
"Good and Broken"
"See You Again"
"Let's Dance"
"Right Here"
"East Northumberland High"
"G.N.O. (Girl's Night Out)"
"The Best of Both Worlds"


Miley Cyrus Encore
"Ready, Set, Don't Go" with Billy Ray Cyrus and Brandi Cyrus on guitar, if they are present. "I Miss You", in dedication to her grandfather, who passed away. "Clear", Cyrus sang this only on the last day of the tour with "I Miss You."


Tour Dates
Fall/Winter 2007
October 18 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
October 20 Moline, IL I Wireless Center
October 21 Minneapolis, MN Target Center
October 23 Omaha, NE Qwest Center
October 25 Denver, CO Pepsi Center
October 26 Salt Lake City, UT EnergySolutions Arena
October 27 Salt Lake City, UT EnergySolutions Arena
October 29 Seattle, WA Key Arena
October 30 Portland, OR Rose Garden
November 1 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena
November 3 Anaheim, CA Honda Center
November 4 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion at San Jose
November 5 Fresno, CA Save Mart Center
November 7 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center
November 8 San Diego, CA San Diego Sports Arena
November 9 Glendale, AZ Jobing.com Arena
November 11 Houston, TX Toyota Center
November 12 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
November 14 Fort Worth, TX Fort Worth Convention Center
November 15 Bossier City, LA CenturyTel Center
November 19 Tampa, FL St. Pete Times Forum
November 20 Sunrise, FL BankAtlantic Center
November 23 Nashville, TN Sommet Center
November 24 Knoxville, TN Thompson-Boling Arena
November 25 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum
November 27 Charlotte, NC Charlotte Bobcats Arena
November 28 Duluth, GA Arena at Gwinnett Center
November 29 Memphis, TN FedEx Forum
December 1 Little Rock, AR Alltel Arena
December 2 Oklahoma City, OK Ford Center
December 3 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center
December 5 Auburn Hills, MI The Palace of Auburn Hills
December 6 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena
December 8 Rosemont, IL Allstate Arena
December 9 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Fieldhouse
December 11 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
December 12 Lexington, KY Rupp Arena
December 13 Cincinnati, OH US Bank Arena
December 15 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
December 16 Rochester, NY Blue Cross Arena
December 17 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center
December 19 Hartford, CT Hartford Civic Center
December 20 Providence, RI Dunkin Donuts Center
December 21 Worcester, MA DCU Center
December 22 Worcester, MA DCU Center
December 27 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
December 28 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
December 29 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
December 30 Newark, NJ Prudential Center


Winter 2008 January 3 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
January 4 Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena
January 5 Atlantic City, NJ Boardwalk Hall
January 7 Washington, DC Verizon Center
January 8 Baltimore, MD 1st Mariner Arena
January 9 Albany, NY Times Union Center
Extension With Aly & AJ
January 11 Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena
January 13 Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center
January 14 Chicago, IL United Center
January 15 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center
January 18 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Arena
January 19 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Arena
January 20 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Arena
January 22 Glendale, AZ Jobing.com Arena
January 24 Austin, TX Frank Erwin Center
Extension with Everlife
January 25 Lafayette, LA Cajundome
January 26 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena
January 28 Orlando, FL Amway Arena
January 29 Orlando, FL Amway Arena
January 30 Jacksonville, FL Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena
January 31 Miami, FL American Airlines Arena


The concert tour was filmed in Salt Lake City, Utah and St. Louis, Missouri for presentation in Disney Digital 3D as a limited theatrical event originally scheduled for one week, February 1-7, 2008, in the U.S. and Canada and later in numerous other countries. Because of popular demand, the movie's run was extended indefinitely. The film was directed by Bruce Hendricks and produced by Art Repola (who also directed and produced ESPN's Ultimate X: The Movie). Filming started on October 26, 2007 in Salt Lake City.