She has added two more dates in Paris ! 7th and 8th of March .

 

Latest rumour is Rescue Me has been dropped and Bonita put in its place. Apparently they could not get it to sound right.

God Control opening would be amazing :wub: :wub:

I'm a lifelong fan...so I get that she's going to do whatever the hell she wants and not care what the public thinks. Buuut. I can't be the only one who sees a setlist like that (or hears what she's rehearsing) and just thinks...ugh.

 

Madonna has one of the most amazing discographies in music. It boggles my mind that she doesn't especially use it. Instead, she doles out just a handful of hits like they're little pieces of candy...and she can't give too much of them away because we all have to eat our damn vegetables.

 

This isn't a knock on any of her newer music. I generally like all of her eras. She should absolutely perform some of it. But performing a tour full of Ray of Light or Confessions material was one thing. She was still flying high in those years. We're on our third album now that didn't make much of a dent on the music scene. Does there never come a point she decides to give in and deliver what the crowds want?

 

I'm a fan. I'll always be a fan. But between increasingly inaccessible setlists...shows going on absurdly late...and now a no phone rule...I'm not sure all of this is a particularly good look.

 

You see I'm not sure I agree with this. This is after all a tour for the Madame X album/era so surely it's only right that the setlist is heavily based around that and tracks that compliment it well?

 

Pretty much every act does this when they tour specific albums and just because she has a strong back catalogue, it shouldn't preclude her from making a show of the album she's promoting. A setlist that contains Vogue, Like a Prayer & Frozen has 3 of her biggest and most defining hits, she's doing Rescue Me for the first time which is great - and then she's chosen other tracks that do fit with the theme of Madame X.

 

No phones allowed at the concert .

 

9.30 start time .

 

 

How are they going to enforce a no phones allowed rule? I mean come on :blink:

Well youre not really allowed to use phones in the Palladium (even press at Kristin Chenoweth weren’t allowed).

Side note. It feels bizarre for her to not perform WIFLFAG in the context of womens rights...

Latest rumour is Rescue Me has been dropped and Bonita put in its place. Apparently they could not get it to sound right.

Ugh. :( Gutted if this is the case. If she had a problem doing the chorus vocal then surely a choir or the batukaderas could perform it. It can at least be an interlude.

 

Swapping for 'La Isla Bonita' is a bit ehh given that's one of her most performed songs opposed to one that has never, but I guess it's a song you'd have expected to be included in the first place given its theme.

 

You see I'm not sure I agree with this. This is after all a tour for the Madame X album/era so surely it's only right that the setlist is heavily based around that and tracks that compliment it well?

 

Pretty much every act does this when they tour specific albums and just because she has a strong back catalogue, it shouldn't preclude her from making a show of the album she's promoting. A setlist that contains Vogue, Like a Prayer & Frozen has 3 of her biggest and most defining hits, she's doing Rescue Me for the first time which is great - and then she's chosen other tracks that do fit with the theme of Madame X.

Agreed. Most acts in Madonna's position would accept that they should just be performing what are essentially greatest hits tours with a couple of singles from the new album but I admire that Madonna resists that and has given a good balance of songs old and new. Fans are very much interested in receiving new music and hearing it live brings a whole new depth to the songs. The fact most of this tour is new material shows to me that Madonna has a specific vision for the tour and wants to take fans on a journey. She still has so much more to give.

 

Also, let's be honest, even hardcore fans have been struggling to get tickets due to price or destination so I don't think Karen from the office or Debbie from Tesco will going and therefore wondering where 80sDonna is.

Side note. It feels bizarre for her to not perform WIFLFAG in the context of womens rights...

Another song she's paid dust to despite being one of her most relevant.

How are they going to enforce a no phones allowed rule? I mean come on :blink:

 

Quite easily

 

A company has been hired and it is a theatre tour .

I just purchased front row tickets for Paris March 7th :)

She has added two more dates in Paris ! 7th and 8th of March .

 

Latest rumour is Rescue Me has been dropped and Bonita put in its place. Apparently they could not get it to sound right.

 

Well that would be extremely disappointing but I don’t trust any of these setlists going around on Twitter

Not long until we all find out !!

 

Anyone from this forum going to the tour ?

I wish I was. :( Just wasn't financially possible at the time given the prices of tickets and knowing what it would cost to travel down to and stay over in London.

 

I fear that the Rebel Heart Tour was the last opportunity to see the 'big Madonna extravaganza' as we know it. Not saying the Madame X Tour won't be spectacular but it seems Madonna is keen to scale down and have a more intimate environment. I love those types of settings and I much prefer to be up close and personal, but it would have been such an experience to be witness to her huge arena, big production style shows.

Opening Night Setlist

 

Spoiler below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

God Control

Dark Ballet

Human Nature

Express Yourself (acapella chorus)

Vogue

I Don't Search I Find

American Life

 

Coffin Interlude

 

Batuka

Fado Song (with Gasper Varela)

Killers

Crazy

Welcome to Fado / La Isla Bonita Chorus

Sodade (Cesaria Evora Cover)

Medellin

Extreme Occident

 

Rescue Me Interlude

 

Frozen

Come Alive

Future

Crave

Like A Prayer

I Rise

 

 

Review - Showbiz.com

 

Madonna Surprises With the Launch of Ambitious, Intimate “Madame X” Show, A Sometimes Over Stuffed Attempt at an Avant Garde Broadway Show

 

It turns out Madonna — the queen of re-invention — is human. She admitted last night during the first performance of her Madame X show at Brooklyn’s Howard Gilman Opera house: “The one thing I need is sleep. I’m tired.” She added that she could use a nap.

 

But the 61 year old pop icon didn’t show any signs of weariness last night as she launched this ambitious, complex production. The good news about Madonna’s Madame X show is that there is no bad news. Not really. So everyone can relax. There’s no incentive to throw tomatoes.

 

Quite the opposite: I was impressed, and I think anyone who stops into the Gilman will be surprised to find Madonna, in a stripped down setting, is actually real and just a celebrity hologram. She’s very endearing in an intimate venue. Also considering that this performance of “Madame X” was the very first, you have to give her credit. She’s producing a Broadway show in progress.

 

Indeed, if we come back to “Madame X” in a month, it’s going to be even more together, which isn’t to say it’s not a compelling two hour and fifteen minute entertainment now. But right now “Madame X” is like several Broadway shows happening at once. Most of it works, some of it doesn’t. It needs time to gel. The pieces are good, but they don’t all fit together yet. (The sets are Broadway-level, even better, with terrific lighting. The staging runs from elaborately ornamental to elegantly minimalist. There are excellent video projections, too.)

 

What we get theme wise are more than a few things: Madonna’s lifelong grappling with Catholicism; her adventures in Lisbon as a “soccer mom,” as she says; her discovery in Portugal of that country’s music and that of Cape Verde, off the coast of Africa; political Madonna, who is advocating for LGBTQ, women’s rights, abortion rights, and gun control. Plus modern dance, jazz and ballet, and even a dance video from Madonna’s daughter, Lourdes. That’s a lot of themes.

 

A lot of this is set to showcase songs from the “Madame X” album, which didn’t sell well and didn’t come off well when it arrived. Surprisingly, those songs have been made into convincing theatrical pieces. You see, Madonna is not performing her greatest hits. If you’re coming to the Gilman for “Like a Virgin,” you’re in the wrong place. (There are financial reasons, too, for ditching the early hits– she didn’t write them and she’s probably tired of paying those songwriters.)

 

This doesn’t mean there aren’t nods to the 80s Madonna. Early in the show there’s a lovely a cappella moment of “Express Yourself.” You will also hear “Papa Don’t Preach,” “Frozen,” “La Isla Bonita,” and, very successfully, “Vogue.”

 

Last night’s show started an hour late, at 10:30pm, but Madonna did apologize and explain that later. There are other details that I’ll explore later this week in a real review. Last night, Rosie O’Donnell and Debi Mazar, her good friends, showed up to give support, and Rosie–who received cheers from the audience– got be part of a little “business.” The audience loved it.

 

And that audience– a group of people from Asia had flown here, and used Madonna’s lateness for a nap. The woman behind me came from Paris. There was a crowd from Brazil.

 

(Also be warned: your phone is locked into an airtight container upon arrival. It must be unlocked at the end of the show. No photos, no videos, no social media. Hence, no photo to go with this story.)

 

By the time you get to the last number, it’s well worth it. “Like a Prayer” finishes the show proper and leaves everyone on a high. But again, I think Madonna is doing some interesting work here. She’s trying pull off something much tougher than her arena or stadium shows, and you can already see the payoffs. She’s making a connection with the audience while ideas are settling in. The fans will love to watch it, and out of this will evolve a butterfly. I’d be first in line to return.

Glad Rescue Me is still there as an interlude at least!

 

I'm liking how they refer to Vogue has being done "very successfully". I assume that means it will be performed in all its original 90s glory, much like the World Pride performance.

 

Hopefully someone from her team will be allowed to film footage for social media - don't fancy waiting a year or so for the DVD, assuming we get one!

I hope we do get a DVD!

 

I love the fact it’s phone free if I was actually going I’d not at all know what to expect and what’s coming next.

 

I’m so shocked hardly anything has leaked. I saw like 20 seconds of her performing Frozen but that’s all I’ve seen so far.

 

 

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We will get a DVD prob filmed in Portugal.

 

So ecstatic with the reviews , I haven’t swoon one bad review !!

Hopefully a soundtrack album too?