Well over two years after it began, it appears that Cher [ tickets ] is almost ready to call her farewell tour a wrap.

The singer/actress is expected to play a series of international dates in 2005, concluding with a March 11 performance in Brisbane, Australia.

"My Australian shows will be very emotional because that's where it will end," she said in a statement issued this week. "I think the reason I've kept going, and agreed to more dates, is because it will be really sad to finally say goodbye."

Cher is currently entering her final scheduled month of U.S. dates, a trek that concludes with seven shows in Florida.

The farewell tour opened in June of 2002, and the run was initially scheduled to visit fewer than 50 North American cities. She so far has played about 250 shows in North America.

At her performances, concertgoers can expect to hear songs culled from throughout Cher's four-decade-long career, and to see the singer make multiple costume changes.

Last summer, Cher issued "Cher Live: The Farewell Tour," a DVD that features 18 songs recorded during her Nov. 8, 2002 concert in Miami. A simultaneously released audio CD that houses the same 18 tracks has sold more than 2 million copies, according to a press release.

Cher, who celebrated her 58th birthday in May, first rose to fame in the mid-'60s with partner and then-spouse Sonny Bono. A solo career followed that went through several cycles of prominent commercial success.