I don't think she needed to cut any songs (OK, maybe 'Burning Up' and 'Bad Girl'), just make the interludes a bit shorter and she'd easily have room for a couple more big hits.

^ she needs the interludes to change and rest

 

BG was a highlight for most people.

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According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, the European leg grossed $77.5 million and sold 429,000 tickets.

With the handful of Mexico shows to follow, the current routing for The Celebration Tour is headed toward a total haul of $240-245 million and 1.1-1.2 million tickets over 79 shows. That would situate it behind stadium runs on the Sticky & Sweet Tour (2008-09; 5407.7 million) and The MDMA Tour (2012: $305.2 million), but ahead of arena treks the Confessions Tour (2006: $194.8 million) and the Rebel Heart Tour (2015- 16: $169.8 million)

A success! :cheer:

South American leg still to be announced 👏

AMERICAN leg starts tonight in New York !

She started at 10.45 last night! 😬

She sang I Love New York!! It came in the section where she sang Burning Up:

 

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She started at 10.45 last night! 😬

 

 

FFS!

 

You know what, after many years as a fan, I've come to realise that it's actually M herself who does the most damage to her reputation and career. This is just unacceptable, disrespectful and lame. Her fans have jobs to go to, lives to lead too, and so this constant tardiness disrespects their time. It's just not good enough. M has spoken many times about destroying her ego. I would suggest that she's still got a lot of work to do in this area.....

 

 

She started at 10.45 last night! 😬

 

Jesus Harold Christ 😳

 

Has she ever started later than 11? :drama:

FFS!

 

You know what, after many years as a fan, I've come to realise that it's actually M herself who does the most damage to her reputation and career. This is just unacceptable, disrespectful and lame. Her fans have jobs to go to, lives to lead too, and so this constant tardiness disrespects their time. It's just not good enough. M has spoken many times about destroying her ego. I would suggest that she's still got a lot of work to do in this area.....

 

Agreed with this.

 

She has absolutely no respect or appreciation for her fans, that's one thing which perpetually really annoys me about her.

its not first time she sang I Love New York , she did it for a few

dates in europe! 2nd night in Amsterdam was one of them!

She started at 10.45 last night! 😬

 

 

That is just disgusting, I'm glad I did not invest any money into going to see the tour now, she clearly has not learnt and has zero respect for her fans. :angry:

Eeeek, looks like a few of the dates are being postponed in the next leg. I hope everything's OK!?

Yes im reading that ticket holders have been emailed about the cancellations however some fans are saying they phoned and the email was an error!

In regards to M's constant lateness for shows...I've chatted about it to two people I know in the touring biz (one who worked on several of M's post-2000 tours...another who hasn't done one of her tours but has general connections to M's world). Both independently told me the reason M is hours late for her concerts is that she insists that her mic checks include her entire show. They both said it...so...I kinda feel like there's something to it.

 

I can't say that totally makes sense to me. The only time I've seen M live was the Rebel Heart tour. She was two and a half hours late that night. I was sitting in the crowd those entire two and a half hours...with seemingly nothing happening on stage during that stretch. Does it just take that long for the production to reset? Does M have a routine she goes through to get the energy back after doing a full show's worth of mic checks?

 

Question. At what point did M's lateness for shows become a thing? Certainly it's not something she's done throughout her career. She's only performed in my city once (we were one of the cancelled dates for Celebration)...and her lateness for that Rebel Heart show remains kinda infamous.

I Will Survive was replaced by Express Yourself!

I Will Survive was replaced by Express Yourself!

And now Frozen has replaced Rain! Seems like Frozen was meant to be there on the set list all along but was replaced last minute. I’m glad Rain had its moment as I never expected it to be performed and it’s been a highlight from the videos I’ve watched, but Frozen is an essential song for this tour. It’s got elements of the Sickick remix in it too.

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Full performance of Take a Bow. I think her vocals are a bit shaky throughout but still nice to see the song make an appearance - it is her longest chart topper in the US, after all! Three songs from Bedtime Stories on one tour too!

 

 

Madonna also paid tribute to Prince and a previously unheard guitar solo from the Like a Prayer was played!

 

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