 In December 2009 , Gaga revealed that she planned to cancel the concept of the original shows of The Monster Ball Tour and start afresh . She felt that the revamp of the show was needed as the original tour was constructed in a very short span of time . Gaga recalled that after West and she split up for this tour , she was unsure if she could get a show together in time , but nevertheless wanted to promote The Fame Monster . Hence she was able to put together " something that , in truth , I never would have done if I had a longer amount of time " . The revamp of the tour was planned from the arena shows in the United Kingdom from February 2010 . " My team thinks I 'm completely psychotic . But I don 't fucking care what they think . [ ... ] Well , just to give you an idea , the stage is about four times the size of the one we 're on now and conceptually , it 's completely different . One thing that has been lost over the past 10 @-@ 15 years , in pop music , is the idea of showbiz . And this is definitely going to bring that back " , clarified Gaga . According to James Montgomery of MTV , the show recalled the film musicals The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) and West Side Story ( 1961 ) , the science @-@ fiction film Metropolis ( 1927 ) , and the television mini @-@ series Angels in America ( 2003 ) . 
