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PHILADELPHIA — Let’s alpha with an acknowledgment: Katy Perry’s concert at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center on Thursday was an absurd spectacle.

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Some examples from the hour-and-45-minute extravaganza:

Perry opened the concert by absolutely aerial out over the date on a brilliant singing “Witness,” the appellation clue from her new CD.

On her additional song, the new “Roulette,” she sang aloft two huge dice while her dancers crawled through the dots and the accomplished arena was showered by red confetti.

She sang amidst two huge television-headed puppets and eight TV-headed dancers on “Chained to the Rhythm,” the aboriginal distinct from “Witness” that hit platinum aboriginal this year.

She absolutely floated over the crowd, benumbed a planet Saturn abeyant on cables from the ceiling, while strumming a guitar on her 2009 platinum hit “Thinking of You.”

She had a basketball-shooting challenge adjoin a ancestor from the crowd, ”Jason,” with a badly colossal net (big abundant for her to canyon through) and assurance during an 11-minute adaptation of her best contempo hit, the gold “Swish Swish.”

Katy Perry performs at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on October 12. /// BRIAN HINELINE/SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL

Katy Perry performs at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on October 12. /// BRIAN HINELINE/SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL (© Brian Hineline / SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL)

The actualization calmly competed with the huge outings from Lady Gaga – and alike Cirque du Soleil (more about that later), and was visually aesthetic to the point of debauchery it. During “Chained to the Rhythm,” for example, there was so abundant to watch on stage, that it was accessible to absence that Perry had confused bottomward the aerodrome that continued into the crowd.

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But let’s additionally accede this: All the presentation meant that Perry’s songs abundantly became accomplishments music. And while it additionally was musically pleasing, the “show” afterwards catechism not alone overtook the concert portion, but beneath it.

Hits such as “Hot N Cold,” for which she was on date with huge blush flamingo puppets (and during which her cyberbanking shirt flashed “Hot” and “Cold,” seemed rushed through or cut short.

On “Teenage Dream,” amidst by Day-Glo bubble-headed dancers and eventually benumbed a ablaze chicken block that rose up 30 feet, Perry’s articulation frequently faltered – at atomic assuming it was live-- and generally was active in the mix of the five-person bandage and two accomplishments singers.

And as on several of the songs, the big assembly meant all subtlety was lost, as on “Thank God It’s Friday (T.G.I.F.),” which lasted about a minute.

But the big presentation was acutely interesting. Afterwards “California Gurls” – for which the accepted Larboard Shark actualization from Perry’s Super Bowl achievement fabricated an actualization -- Perry acclimated an colossal buzz alarm to her mother –which she swore was alive and seemed to be, with her niece Stella on the line, as well.

Katy Perry performs at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on October 12. /// BRIAN HINELINE/SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL

Katy Perry performs at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on October 12. /// BRIAN HINELINE/SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL (© Brian Hineline / SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL)

That led into “that song [her mother] doesn’t decidedly like and prays for me about, “I Kissed a Girl,” which started too electronic/disco afore regaining the thudding affected that fabricated it a hit. For that song, a huge brace of aperture came out onstage and “swallowed” Perry, with her finishing the song while amphibian abeyant “inside” the mouth.

The hit “E.T.” was a huge production, with dancers, smoke and a huge boob animal that apparently was the extra-terrestrial.

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And “Part of Me,” for which she afflicted into dejected acrylic gym bikini, led into the above basketball game.

In all, Perry afflicted apparel bristles times – from the aperture sparking red hooded chiffon accouterments to the a black-and-white tango dancer’s dress to billowing pants and crop top to sparkly argent dress and headpiece to the gym accouterments to a academic dress for the afterpiece – abrogation date for a absolute of 15 account to do so.

She additionally a absolute Cirque-level acrobats perform, aback she larboard the date afterwards “Bon Appetit,” and accomplishing a accepted pole ball with her during the new “Tsunami.”

Before the new “Power,” she brought a 10-year-old girl, “Ella” [“Ella, Ella, Ella,” Perry sang, riffing on Rihanna’s “Umbrella”] on date to accomplish a ambition [she admired for a puppy], again went into the army to alpha the song and accomplished it at the end of the aerodrome with angels wings at her back.

Katy Perry performs at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on October 12. /// BRIAN HINELINE/SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL

Katy Perry performs at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on October 12. /// BRIAN HINELINE/SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL (© Brian Hineline / SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL)

The new “Bon Appetit” was articulate from central a huge Venus fly trap, as huge alkali and pepper shakers brindled beam on Perry (“You appetite a cheesesteak?” Perry asked the crowd), who added a atom of Janet Jackson’s “What Have You Done for Me Lately?”

That song was allotment of the show’s abundant accent on the new disc, which isn’t Perry’s best, and additionally relies far added on assembly than agreeable substance.

Eight of the night’s 19 songs (some added shows in the bout included 21 songs lasted 15 account longer) were from the new album. But that meant the boilerplate electro-disco of “Déjà vu” replaced platinum hits such as ”The One That Got Away,” “Waking Up in Vegas,” ”Unconditionally” and by far her best song, “Wide Awake.”

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But “Thinking of You,” during that all-embracing ride, was different. Perry absolutely sang, and sang well.

And aback she bankrupt the capital set with “Roar,” all of the elements came together. Yes, there were bouncing assurance and active around, but the song was the diamond-selling hit you remembered.

So was the encore, “Firework,” on which she rose out of the date on a huge duke and started singing about a cappella, afore added armament rained bottomward – and the accepted absolute fireworks.

That was the actualization it was until the actual end – and the concert too little of it was.

Noah Cyrus performs at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on October 12. /// BRIAN HINELINE/SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL

Noah Cyrus performs at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on October 12. /// BRIAN HINELINE/SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL (© Brian Hineline / SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL)

Opening act Noah Cyrus larboard abundant the aforementioned consequence she did aback she opened for Aloe Blacc at Bethlehem’s Musikfest in August: She’s a accomplished boyhood who can’t abjure her birth to sister Miley, but who needs added date seasoning.

Wearing a arch scarf, sparkly atramentous pants and bra top, the 17-year-old Cyrus performed a seven-song, 24-minute set, aperture with “Stay Together,” one of the bristles songs she played from her admission album, “NC-17,” aural actual abundant like her earlier sister. “I’m Stuck” was a fun country-rock romp.

After accoutrement Lady Gaga’s “Million Reasons,” Cyrus had the best run of her set: “Almost Famous,” a apathetic song of affliction on acoustic guitar and cajon; her best song, the acoustic “It Ain’t Me,” aural like her sister accomplishing a Bob Dylan song; and her new single, “Again.”

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With a four-person band, Cyrus absolutely had added date attendance than she did at Musikfest, but still seemed hesitant.

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