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Article: A night with the three divas ; Celine Dion sweeps into London with her Titanic voice
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 7, 2008
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REVIEW Celine Dion O2 ****
SOME divas are born. Others, you suspect, have divadom thrust
upon them. Despite selling almost 200 million albums, Celine Dion is
probably in the latter camp.
In her first London show since 1999, the 40-year-old worked too
hard, sweated too much and spent too long on stage to be a genuine
diva. And while she did announce that her son Rene-Charles and her
mother Therese had joined her in the capital, she had the grace not
to parade them to the crowd.
Christened the Taking Chances tour, perhaps in irony, this gaudy,
loose-limbed spectacular took very few chances.
There were costume changes: five in all (the flared trousers were
shockingly unflattering; the gigantic ...