Madonna to
confess on dance floors worldwide

Madonna will begin her latest world tour in Los Angeles on May 21, with ticket prices topping out at $350 in most U.S. venues, organizers said Monday. The tour will promote her latest album, Confessions on a Dance Floor , which has sold about 1.4 million copies in the United States since its November release.

Contrary to speculation that the outing would play smaller venues than usual, the Confessions Tour will visit arenas and stadia around the world. Dates are scheduled through September 3 in Amsterdam. A press release said Madonna would also play Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, but no dates were indicated.

Madonna was last on the road in 2004 with her Re-Invention Tour, which grossed $125 million, according to Billboard Boxscore. She will warm up for the new tour with a previously announced April 30 date at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Southern California, the first festival appearance of her career.

Here are Madonna's tour dates:

April 30: Indio, Calif. (Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival)

May 21: Los Angeles (The Forum)

May 27: Las Vegas (MGM Grand Garden Arena)

May 30: San Jose, Calif. (HP Pavilion)

June 5: Fresno, Calif. (Save Mart Center)

June 8: Phoenix (Glendale Arena)

June 14: Chicago (United Center)

June 21: Montreal (Bell Center)

June 25: Hartford, Conn. (Civic Center)

June 28-29: New York City (Madison Square Garden)

July 6: Boston (TD Bank Garden)

July 12: Philadelphia (Wachovia Center)

July 16: Atlantic City, N.J. (Boardwalk Hall)

July 22: Miami (AmericanAirlines Arena)

July 30: Cardiff, U.K. (Millennium Stadium)

August 1, 3: London (Wembley Arena)

August 6: Rome (Olympic Stadium)

August 20: Dusseldorf, Germany (LTU Arena)

August 22: Hannover, Germany (AWD Arena)

August 24: Horsens, Denmark (Forum)

August 27-28: Paris (Bercy)

September 3: Amsterdam (Arena)

(Jonathan Cohen, Reuters)