[3] The show was choreographed by Bush and Anthony Van Laast, in collaboration with dancers Stewart Avon Arnold and Gary Hurst.

[3] Bush aimed for the tour to offer a theatrical experience to contrast the performances of other contemporary rock musicians,[4] and sought to combine "music, dance, poetry, mime, burlesque, magic and theatre.

[5] The stage itself was constructed with a retractable ramp at its centre,[4] with a "large ribbed screen – intended to represent an egg – on to which slides and film footage could be projected".

[2][8] Following the Poole show, the tour's lighting engineer Bill Duffield was killed after falling from a stage and seating structure at the concert venue.

The show opened with playback of whale song, with Bush's shadow projected as she began to dance while the curtain parted to reveal the stage.

The second section began with the curtains parting to reveal Bush wearing a long black dress, sitting on top of a piano to perform "In the Warm Room".

The magician then reappeared with his cane; he walked to the back of the stage holding a black cloth, which then dropped to reveal Bush, now wearing a veil, behind it.

She danced with a male dancer to a live rehearsal playback recording of "Hammer Horror",[3] recreating the routine from its music video,[11] after which a chant commenced, leading into "Kashka from Baghdad", performed at the piano.

The third section began with the curtain opening on Bush, now wearing a purple dress, at the edge of the ramp which had been lifted to replicate a pier, to perform "Wow."

"Coffee Homeground" began as a prisoner cell set was assembled; Bush sang on a centre-stage chair, as corpse props fell out of the walls.

Another spoken word poem was recited by Bush's brother as "Symphony in Blue" (incorporating elements of "Gymnopédie 1" by Erik Satie) began to be played.

Bush, now dressed in a blue leotard covered by a leather jacket, performed while waving to the audience as images of a cloudy sky were projected.

For the show's first encore, Bush and her dancers emerged wearing World War II bomber attire[3] as a parachute was spread across the stage.

There was a short interval before the curtains re-opened upon the stage covered in dry ice fog and illuminated in red with a forest backdrop.

As the music to "Wuthering Heights" began, Bush sprang up through the fog, costumed as the ghost of Catherine Earnshaw from Emily Brontë's novel of the same name.

She performed the dance routine from the song's music video, before retreating to the top of the ramp, waving to the audience, and exiting the stage as the curtain closed.

[3][10] The Telegraph described Bush as a "stunningly original stage performer", praising the setlist of the show as "dazzling testimony to a remarkable talent, evidently intense rehearsal and technological know-how".

EMI Records released the extended play (EP) On Stage on 31 August 1979, featuring live performances of the songs "Them Heavy People", "Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake", "James and the Cold Gun" and "L'Amour Looks Something Like You".