NEWS about Shania's AUGUST 19 NBC Concert Special!

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It has been announced that Shania's August 19 NBC special will include Special footage other than just from Shania's 2-hour Chicago concert.

Footage from Shania's appearance at the Chicago Cubs game will be shown in the August 19 special. Footage from when Shania threw out the first pitch and from when she sang "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" will also be shown.

The Countrynation.com News page just put up a News bulletin today about the additional Shania footage.

This is that Countrynation.com News bulletin:

Shania special next week
-- Shania Twain's special, "Shania Twain: UP! Live from Chicago," airs on NBC next Tuesday. The show will feature footage from Shania's early August concert at Chicago's Grant Park, in front of 50,000 fans.

The special will also include Twain's visit to Wrigley Field, where she threw the opening pitch and sang Take Me Out To The Ballgame, while wearing a Chicago Cubs jersey.


http://www.countrynation.com/

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A NEW article from an NBC site contains more information about other NEW footage that will be shown on the August 19 special.

In addition to Shania's concert and her visit to the Cubs game being shown, footage of Shania's visit to the Kid's Cafe charity place will be shown on the special too!

This is that article from the NBC site:

SHANIA TWAIN RETURNS TO TELEVISION AND STAGE WITH HER FIRST NBC SPECIAL IN 3 YEARS -- 'SHANIA TWAIN: UP! LIVE FROM CHICAGO'
Published: August 11, 2003


To Be Telecast Tuesday, August 19 (8-10 p.m. ET) on NBC


BURBANK, Calif. -- August 11, 2003 -- Music sensation Shania Twain returns to the stage for her first concert performance in over three years as part of her upcoming NBC special entitled “Shania Twain: UP! Live from Chicago.” With the windy city as her backdrop, Twain performed her new hits and old favorite songs as part of a 2-hour concert at Grant Park before 50,000 of her fans.

Along with her concert performance, the special will also include Twain’s recent visit to Wrigley Field - where she threw the opening pitch and sang “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” during 7th inning stretch - and her visit to the Chicago branch of Kids Café - a national after-school feeding program that Twain strongly supports.

With a world tour kicking off in late September, Twain is riding the wave of her enormously successful #1 release “UP!,” which has already sold over 8 million copies and spawned the hit singles “I’m Gonna Getcha Good!, “UP!,” and “Forever and For Always," which is currently climbing the charts.

Twain’s previous album “Come On Over” is the most successful female solo album of all time with worldwide sales of over 34 million. “Come On Over” included infectious hit singles such as, “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!,” “From This Moment On,” “You’re Still The One,” and “That Don’t Impress Me Much.”

Since the release of “UP!” in November, Twain has been on a worldwide promotion tour spanning the US, Canada, Europe, Australia & Japan.

“Shania Twain UP! Live in Chicago” marks the superstar’s first network special in four years. In March 1999, Twain’s “Winter Break” special brought the audience home to her native Timmins, Ontario and paired her with Elton John in Miami, Florida. The other television specials, “Come on Over” and “Shania Twain Live” were both filmed in Dallas, Texas in 1999.

“Shania Twain: UP! Live From Chicago” is from Ken Ehrlich Productions. Ken Ehrlich is the executive producer.



http://www.nbcmv.com/release_detail.nbc/entertainment-20030811000000-shaniatwainreturnstot.html


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These are some photos of Shania from her NBC Chicago concert that are from the NBC page that I just discussed above:

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[Terry]

Great pictures!

Terry

[ShaniaIsALeader]

Zap2it.com has yet another new article on their site about Shania's upcoming NBC special. The new article features New Quotes from Shania.

This is the article:

Shania Twain Is 'Up!' and Running

By Kate O'Hare

On July 27, Shania Twain was the bargain concert ticket of the summer.

She's a country star, a pop star, a five-time Grammy Award winner and a six-time American Music Award winner, who gave a free performance in Chicago's Grant Park on that Sunday. The special was taped and airs Tuesday, Aug. 19, on NBC as a two-hour program called "Shania Twain Up! Live in Chicago."

Calling in from the Windy City a few days before the show, Twain promises, "It's going to be great fun, just a lot of excitement. There's a whole other feeling to being outside. And not too windy, is what I'm hoping."

The concert includes songs from Twain's latest compact disc, "UP!" including the singles "I'm Gonna Getcha Good" and "Forever and for Always."

"It's not a touring show," Twain says. "It's more the idea of a one-off. There isn't a dramatic theme or anything like that. It's pretty much a straight-ahead rock summer concert in the park. That's the feeling I want to give off. It's not the same sort of production direction you might take on a stadium tour.

"It's a much freer feeling than that, which is great. I've been off tour for three-and-a-half years. We haven't been on stage for so long, and for me, there's something fresh about it and exciting. There'll be an adrenaline that's higher than usual."

Twain chose Chicago, she says, because "It just ended up being a great location. The city itself is cool, but we had to think about park location. This happened to be a park that is well suited to setting up a big concert.

"The city's been so cooperative. That's been the main reason -- who can we work with that's really going to make this happen? They've been amazing."

As for the kind of faces she expects to see in the crowd, Twain suspects it will be varied. "If I look at my audience, they're so salt-and-peppered. Maybe there'd be a group of six teenage girls, then you'll see, beside them, a family with parents in their 30s and their two kids under eight. Then, you'll see maybe an older couple on the other side.

"It's really funny to see all these people just getting into the music, and how they all react and respond to each other."

Twain feels her mixed crowd will help keep her free concert a positive experience. "They all feed off of each other. It keeps people who would maybe get out of control, more in control, and it pipes everybody else up who might normally prefer to sit at a concert." These days, Twain balances her music career with the personal commitments of marriage to producer and songwriter Robert John "Mutt" Lange, and being a mom to their toddler son, Eja.

"Mutt was actually more of a musical influence on me before I met him than he is now," Twain says. "He was responsible for so much of the music in my teens: The Cars, Def Leppard, Bryan Adams, AC/DC, Billy Ocean. A big part of why we came together in the first place was because of his love for country music.

"So, it's quite ironic that I was so influenced by his rock background, and he was so influenced by the country background."

While Twain thinks it's too early to tell how motherhood will affect her music, she does say, "In the future, I will be writing from a deeper perspective. I just feel deeper now. My emotions are deeper; my thought processes are deeper."

For now, she'd just like you to tune in on Tuesday. "I'm hosting this concert, which is how I'm seeing it, and everybody's invited."



http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,274|82877|1|,00.html

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