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Mackie says Cher will make her grand entrance coming out of the ceiling in "a blond, Mongolian princess," ensemble that's white Mongolian lamb and embroidered in diamonds. That's just for starters. There's also a "rock 'n' roll, S&M" black spandex number that recalls the eye-popping outfit Cher wore for the 1989 video for If I Could Turn Back Time, and will reprise for the concert. "It's a huge show," says Mackie, who watched the only two dress rehearsals staged at Maple Leaf Gardens on Tuesday and Wednesday earlier this week. "It's a big spectacle really. It's fun. It covers all the decades. "There's one number where she sings Bang Bang, and everyone's dressed in these amazing Mohawk headdresses, with Maori tattoos on their bodies, and big leather coats. They're all like these barbarians of some sort, from somewhere, we don't know, it's kind of an invented culture that we put together. It's amazing. But it makes you laugh. There's so much going on -- on that stage. It's just unexpected. It just comes at you and you go, 'Oh, my God. What is going on?' " Mackie says Cher got together with her director/choreographer Dorian Sanchez about three months ago to design the concept of the show and his own design work began about a month-and-a-half ago. Mackie says he, along with Cher and the rest of her entourage, have been in T.O. only since last Sunday preparing for her farewell roadtrip. "I think she's been either to the venue or here -- that's it," says Mackie of Cher's activities. "I know she hasn't been out shopping or anything, which she loves to do. She's too nervous about the show. She wants to get it right, learning things. She has to learn the set and learn where to go and where to walk. Any time she's doing a new thing, she's always very nervous about it and wanting to do right. And then once she gets into it, she's fine. After that first couple of nights, then she'll be having good time." One last time. "It's just the farewell tour. It's not the farewell, farewell," says Mackie of Cher's decision to quit the road. "These tours are very hard and it's tough, and she wanted to do a really good one, but not have to do it again. It takes a year or two out of your life. And you just live from hotel to hotel. She doesn't need to do that. And it doesn't mean you stop recording or stop doing films."
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