Contributed by MariahsMan:
Billboard.com reports that Mariah Carey’s tour downsizing from arenas to theaters had nothing to do with lower-than-expected ticket sales. “Mariah had been speaking to people, monitoring her Web site, and listening to her fans, and the resounding note she heard was her fans wanted to see her in a more intimate environment and were less concerned about the big production aspects of an arena tour,” says John Marx of the William Morris Agency. Marx maintains that the tour would have been fine as scheduled and that Mariah is “going to bring it back to what she’s all about: the music.” Read more.