Alanis Morissette [ tickets ] will launch her 1999 world tour Saturday (1/30) in New Orleans, LA with Liz Phair performing opening act duties. The tour itinerary now marks 35 US shows, having added a Portland, ME stop and a second show at Atlanta's Fox Theatre since the routing was first revealed in mid-December.

Tickets for approximately the first third of the itinerary have gone on sale to date, setting a very strong pace, though not establishing sales records. Morissette has not toured extensively since December of 1996, the end of her tour activity surrounding her debut album, Jagged Little Pill. In November of 1998, she did a brief preview tour of larger clubs, performing twelve shows in larger cities.

A video chat, to be hosted by Yahoo, will take place on Tuesday (1/26) at 9 p.m. EST. Sonicnet is co-producing the chat, which, according to Morissette's publicists, will include rehearsal footage featuring Morissette and her current touring band, Chris Chaney (bass), Deron Johnson (keyboards), Nick Lashley and Joel Shearer (guitars) and Gary Novak (drums).

Liz Phair will now take on a total of ten shows opening for Morrissette, as new dates have been inserted into the itinerary prior to her final date in Philadelphia. Garbage picks up opening chores February 15th in Cleveland, OH.

A follow-up single to the hit lead-off track Thank U is expected to be announced to coincide with the early dates on the tour.

Here's the latest itinerary for Alanis Morissette [ tickets ]: