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Beyonce's I am… World Tour on ABC Thanksgiving, preview

By April MacIntyre Nov 16, 2010, 5:47 GMT

03/05/2010 - Beyonce Knowles - © Janet Mayer / PR Photos

On Thanksgiving night, November 25, the ABC Television Network will air a 90-minute special “Beyonce's I am… World Tour” at 9:30 PM/ET.

Travel the planet with Beyoncé Knowles, as she takes you on her 32-country, 6-continent tour.

Viewers will hear her perform her biggest hits in the world’s greatest venues, and will see what it takes to mount an over-the-top production: the backstage moments, choreography, costumes, and life offstage. The special features guest appearances by Kanye West and her husband Jay-Z. 

The show weaves together more than ninety of Beyoncé’s performances from Croatia to Abu Dhabi to Africa, Australia and China: the sheer, backbreaking work of producing one of the most dazzling visual acts in the music world, complicated by a performer who will tolerate nothing less than perfection.

Beyonce, the 16-time Grammy winner, is famous for doing it all:  costumes, music, dancing and staging. 

This time, she also directs: both the special and a full-length theatrical film of her tour. With previously unseen material from thousands of hours of intimate coverage, this shows Beyonce in staged intimate moments.