If Elliott does take this show on the road, she might do well to prepare attendees for the final shock by letting them know the end is nigh ahead of time, lest they miss the finale going out for a cocktail break. There was a sense of collective surprise among the audience when the legend “The End” appeared on the big screen to signal things were over, less than an hour in for those who had bought tickets for four-figure fees, there might have been some calculating on the drive home about just how many dollars each minute amounted to. Missy Elliott at Yaamava’ Theater (Chris Willman/Variety)Įlliott blew through close to 25 songs in an exceedingly brisk 55 minutes - these catalog choices averaging out at, yes, about two minutes a piece. So no wonder the cheapest tickets on the day of the show for her SoCal appearance were going for $500-plus. The last time she did anything like a standard tour was 13 years ago, and since then, Elliott might not have done much more than a dozen full sets, almost all of them at festivals, none in theaters. in off-the-beaten-track Highland? The Vegas festival and subsequent casino concert are it, as far as what’s on Elliott’s public itinerary following the news of her impending Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. As one tweeter put it: “Why Yaamava’ Theatre?” - wondering, reasonably, why Elliott was following her festival appearance not with a full tour or, say, a night or two at the Hollywood Bowl, but a one-off gig at a 2,500-seat theater at a casino-resort at least an hour outside of L.A. Something slightly rarer still occurred Tuesday night in southern California’s Inland Empire: a stand-alone headlining show by Elliott. Hip-hop fans knew what the real headlines should have been on that story: A unicorn had been sighted during a full solar eclipse, as Halley’s comet made a rare pass over Brigadoon - or other metaphors to that effect - if Elliott was being sighted back on a stage.

There was a Missy Elliott show? Stop the presses … this seemed like a case of burying the lead, as they say in news circles.

The two singers went on to… Wait a minute. Perhaps you saw the gossip-site reports coming out of the Lovers & Friends Festival in Las Vegas last weekend: Allegedly, Chris Brown and Usher had gotten into some kind of tiff backstage during Missy Elliott‘s set.

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