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Jennifer Lopez made headlines terminal calendar week with remarks that her fourth dimension spent judging singers on American Idol improved her own quality of performance.

Curiously, Lopez fabricated no mention of Idol at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City Dominicus night, although she did in a previous NJ testify at the Prudential Center on July 21 where she said she will “miss it very much, but at the end of the day, this is what I do. This is where I vest â€" out here with you lot."

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Could it be that Lopez, who repeatedly coached contestants on the importance of the connection between a performer and his or her audience, is over information technology already? Maybe so, only in her live show, she seemed to take her own advice to heart.

Nigh an hr into her set up, Lopez delivered a moving and touching interpretation of the soft-rock ballad, “Until It Beats No More” -- a vocal recorded for her 2011 CD, Dear? At the fourth dimension, Lopez said the vocal, about a love that never dies, expressed her feelings for and so husband, Marc Anthony, merely every bit the 43-year-old pop vocaliser told the New Bailiwick of jersey oversupply, “a lot has changed” over the years.

Prepare confronting a video backdrop of Lopez playing with her twin children, the singer gushed that “she finally found truthful love,” and the song took on a whole new pregnant about the unconditional love of motherhood and a vow to love your family until your centre “beats no more.” In that moment, Lopez found her own connectedness with the emotion of the song and with her fans in the arena. Similarly, a stripped down acoustic version of her starting time No. 1 hit, “If You Had My Honey,” was a sweet and intimate moment.

Sometimes, simply delivering a song without all the bells and whistles is plenty, and the show could have used more singing (Lopez'south vocals were sometimes augmented with taped samples, but it'due south expected given all the dancing she does) only this is a non what a J-Lo bear witness entails. Make no doubt well-nigh information technology, Lopez grew up in the Bronx with the bright lights of Broadway gleaming in the distance, and little Jenny From The Block is recreating the glitz and glamour of the Great White Way for her “Dance Again” tour.

“Are you all set to dance with me?” she asked a game and adoring mix of women, men and seasoned gamblers.

Opening the evidence with her male dancers adorned in top hats, canes and a soft shoe number announcing the inflow of a “beautiful girl,” Lopez made an entrance worthy of Former Hollywood, complete with a greeting of “Hello, Lovers.”

Lopez packed her set with hits, setting the tone early on with her opening numbers, “Get Right,”  a sassed upward delivery of “My Love Don’t Price A Thing,” and the Latin-flavored “I’m Into Y'all.”

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Those coming for a dose of glitzy, body-hugging outfits, short skirts, feathers and shoe porn were non disappointed. Lopez’s wardrobe costs more than the mortgage payments of mere mortals, and she has the figure to show information technology all off, working a lengthy catwalk to the center of the audience and using every inch of the stage to flaunt her fly-girl dance moves.

Still, she made plenty of references to her East Coast roots, cheerfully recounting her days growing up in the Bronx and announcing the presence of her female parent, Guadalupe, in the crowd.

“She loves to run a risk,” she joked (that she does -- the Lopez matriarch famously won a $2.four million jackpot on a slot machine in 2004 at the Borgata).

There were some misfires in the production. A video of Lopez playing peek-a-boo with male child-toy backup dancer Casper Smart gear up to “Baby, I Beloved You” (a throwback to the Ben Affleck, Gigli period) was unnecessary, and a choreographed boxing number, no doubtfulness a time-filler for another costume change, was an odd pick (how is an ode to shoes, “Louboutins,” translate to a boxing lucifer?). A moving stage for “Waiting For Tonight” was a tad too decorated, but Lopez did her best to thoroughly entertain with a recreation of ‘90s fashions (and a blinged out Yankee chapeau, which said she got in trouble for sporting in Boston-Red Sox fans accept got to chill out) for a medley of before hits: “I’m Existent/All I Have/’Aint Information technology Funny.”

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"At the end of the day, this is what I practice. This is where I vest â€" out here with you." â€"Jennifer Lopez

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All the same, there was plenty to enjoy in her xc-minute extravaganza-from her able-bodied, oft shirtless fill-in dancers doing back flips worthy of an Olympic routine, a nod to “I Love Lucy” with a backdrop of “Club Babalu” for the party anthem, “Let’s Go Loud,”  to her playing to the Latinos in the audience, shouting out to her “Papis” and delivering the opening refrain of  her dance hit, “On the Floor” in Spanish from a raised throne.

An encore of “Dance Again” ended in a rain of confetti, pyrotechnics, and an entire audience dancing as if in a order.

“This is why I beloved the Eastward Declension,” Lopez told the crowd.

Where J-Lo’due south fix satisfied the males in the audience, co-headliner Enrique Iglesias provided machismo and eye-candy for the ladies.

Announcing his inflow through assuming messages on a video screen (“It’s My Time!” “Are Y'all Set up?”) Iglesias emerged in glorious splendor, dressed merely in jeans, a black t-shirt and a baseball cap. His chiseled features were enough to elicit screams of delight from his legions of female person fans, lapping upward every bit of his sweaty, jocular physique.

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Opening with “Tonight I’k Lovin’ You” (and interspersing the lyrics with the oh, and so charming alternate take, “Tonight I’grand F---ing You”), Iglesias showered the oversupply with laser visuals, confetti, sing-forth assistance via-the video screen (in case you didn’t know the words to the chorus of “I Like How It Feels”) and a full assist via technology from Conductor on the techno-romp “Dirty Dancer.”

A few quibbles: Iglesias is a flirtatious and generous performer who loves to get upwards close and personal with the audience, pulling fans cell phones out of their hands to requite them that all of import close-up portrait for their Facebook pages. That said, he does not demand to pull up portly middle-aged men clearly on a Match.com date on stage. Iglesias picked Bill, a 40-something divorced guy bragging well-nigh his 29-year old date, out of the crowd, prompting the large lug (who tried to make an unfunny joke about Iglesias’ much  hawked Atlantico Rum) to sing “Stand By Me” centre stage. To say information technology was a waste material of time is an understatement, although Iglesias seems to love the personal interplay with fans. He gave equal time to an extroverted 21-year old Bailiwick of jersey-Shore wannabe from Toronto, crooning his ballad, “Hero” to his onstage foil on a stage located in the back of the loonshit, culminating with a full make-out session that made every girl in the house a tad jealous.

Actress points: Iglesias gave a full nod to Duran Duran with the opening guitar line of “Ordinary World” prior to his hit, “Be With You.”

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He so treated the audience to a raucous sweat-induced romp of his hit, “I Like It” before applauding New Jerseyans as “the horniest people in the world,” leading to a reprise of “Tonight I’thou F---ing You” ane last fourth dimension in a shower of confetti and inflatable balloons.

J.Lo Set List

Never Gonna Surrender (Video)
Go Right
Dear Don’t Cost A Matter
I’m Into You
Waiting For This evening
Louboutins
Goin’ In
I’m Real/All I Have/’Aint It Funny
Jenny From The Block
Infant I Beloved You
Agree Information technology Don’t Driblet It
If You Had My Beloved
Until It Beats No More than
Let’s Go Loud
Papi
On The Flooring
Encore
Dance Again

Enrique Iglesias Set List

Tonight (“I’m Lovin’ You”)
I Like How It Feels
Muddy Dancer
Bailamos
Stand up By Me
Be With You lot
Escape
Hero
I Like It
This evening (“I’m F&#ing You”)

Watch some video of "Waiting For Tonight" from Sunday night's show:

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