Carrie's Play Toys: There's no kitchen sink in Carrie Underwood's Play On tour production, but there's just about everything else. "The production is far and away above anything I would have imagined," one of our insiders says of last week's tour opener in Reading, PA. "She opens with 'Cowboy Casanova,' rising up from the stage on a red velvet couch and wearing a tuxedo." (Watch here.) In fact, Underwood makes seven costume changes. A flying blue pickup truck is the show's crowning production piece. "It comes up out of the side of the stage, rises up with her in the bed and carries her to the back of the arena near the soundboard, giving all those fans a front-row seat." (Watch here.)

Some other great moments: Carrie plays piano on 'Mama's Song' in front of a montage of pictures of her childhood, including getting the golden ticket on American Idol. The last picture is one with her fiancé. Her fan club is allowed to chose a cover song from Rock, '80s, Classic Country or '90s Country categories, with Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69" earning a performance in Reading. Underwood references her Grand Ole Opry induction and displays Opry imagery on-screen during a video duet of "I Told You So" with Randy Travis. (Watch here.) During "Just A Dream," she swings beneath a tree limb as the screens display a forest scene.

Another high-tech touch may reveal the link between Underwood's tour and the late Michael Jackson's ill-fated This Is It tour – production designer Michael Cotton, who worked on both. During "Change," Underwood's ball gown displayed moving video, perhaps a nod to the "Light Man" video-screen-covered robot suit in which Jackson planned to enter his final concerts.