Manchester Arena
With sugar-plum fairies, drummer boys and Mariah hitting those incredible high notes, the only thing missing from this high camp festive show is live reindeer
“Lambs!” Mariah Carey addressed her 20 million Twitter followers last month. “Just in time for the holiday gift-giving season, it seems I’ve received a present of my own; a lovely upper respiratory infection after last week’s flu. Bleak!” Nine dates of her All I Want for Christmas is You: A Night of Joy and Festivity tour, a seasonal fandango that has pitted Mariah against Santa for the last four years, were cancelled. Happily, her two UK shows survived, giving the British branch of the Lambily (as the Lambs are collectively known) something to cheer about – this is only her second set of British shows since 2003.
The concept, which evolved from a residency at New York’s Beacon theatre, recognises the fact that, while Carey may not be the album-seller she once was, she has Christmas sewn up. The 1994 single All I Want for Christmas Is You is her festive passport, charting every year – it’s currently No 5 in the UK, and showing its annual spike in Google’s trending chart, along with a “related enquiry” about how much it has earned in royalties ($60m, reportedly).
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