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After Britney Spears’ CIRCUS tour became the highest-grossing tour of 2009, she decided to come back to the United States to do it all over again.

On the second leg of her North American tour, Britney certainly outshined her first.

Adding almost an hour’s worth of singing, dancing and circus acrobatics, she meshes circus magic, clown antics and a sometimes-too-sexy routine into a stunning show.

Though Spears has been known to lip-synch during her concerts, her live singing is just as impressive as the trapeze artists spinning above her head, and she sings live more often than not.

Everything has changed.

Instead of opening her show with an intense, freak-show-like video of her idea of a circus, Britney brings live circus freaks to the stage.

A girl with no legs shows off on a trampoline and a gymnast flips off a human balance beam.

Britney Spears herself is cut up, caged up and paraded around stage.

Her dancers can do tae kwon doe and spin around on cloth curtains as well as freestyle.

It is apparent that a lot of thought and hard work went into creating Britney’s new routines, just as it was evident that even her original show required months of rehearsals and millions of dollars to get right.

However, it was well worth the second-time-around effort.

The arena was sold out well in advance, and the applause was just as deafening as during her first tour.

Opening for Britney were Kristiana DeBarge, a new boy band named One Call, and Jordin Sparks of American Idol fame. Though all performed well, Kristiana DeBarge and One Call only performed two songs each. Jordin Sparks performed each of her singles before leaving the stage.

For younger children and preteens, the Britney Spears concert was shockingly inappropriate.

Both men and women wear similarly skimpy outfits while dancing, flipping and flying. Occasionally, the dancing resembles sex more than hip-hop.

Yet for teens, the loud music and catchy beats of Britney’s hit singles, from the recently released Radar to the classic Hit Me Baby One More Time, overwhelm even the dangerously sexy appeal of the show.