The Celebration Tour 2023 (Greatest Hits)

My friend may not be able to make it, but I'll definitely go solo for Madge. That they're not going to know until very soon near the date is slightly annoying though as it determines which airport I'll fly from and quite simply I detest last minute changes because I dread the loss of preparation (preparation) and the pain of re-planning (re-planning). Now I'm thinking I'll probably go into cardiac arrest when GGW starts buzzing through the speakers and the whole ground is shaking from the excitement of something so throwaway and faceless being somehow iconic and tour-de-force.
 
Avoid instagram if you don't want spoilers. Some fan pages are posting the entire setlist. So fucking annoying.
 
straightorbroken said:
My friend may not be able to make it, but I'll definitely go solo for Madge. That they're not going to know until very soon near the date is slightly annoying though as it determines which airport I'll fly from and quite simply I detest last minute changes because I dread the loss of preparation (preparation) and the pain of re-planning (re-planning). Now I'm thinking I'll probably go into cardiac arrest when GGW starts buzzing through the speakers and the whole ground is shaking from the excitement of something so throwaway and faceless being somehow iconic and tour-de-force.
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I mean let's face it she should open every tour with GGW
 
The Celebration Tour by the numbers

4 decades of unstoppable hits – prepare to dance your ass off!
13th culture shaping tour
1 extraordinary drag queen
8th tour partnering with director Jamie King
24 onstage performers
1 Stuart Price reunion
4,400 square ft. of stage, the largest for any Madonna tour. Inspired by the grid of Manhattan with Uptown, Downtown, Midtown, East and West stages.
8 humidifiers in Madonna’s dressing room
1 bottle of MDNA Rose Mist Spray in each quick-change space
3 traveling mobile gyms
15 countries
78 shows
50 merch items including vintage recreations of iconic items from previous tours such as the Blond Ambition Bomber Jacket
45 wardrobe trunks
1 Queen sized Madonna flag outside the O2 (naturally)
6 sold out nights in London
3 layered circular stage where the traditional main stage would be, inspired by the wedding cake of Madonna’s original VMA performance
3 physical therapists
4 of Madonna’s children on stage
40 pairs of boxing gloves
230 ft. of combined length of catwalk that gets Madonna 105 ft far into the venue
14 spotlights for Madonna and over 600 intelligent lights to light the stage and arena with over 8800 lighting cues
17 archived costumes recreated
4 rehearsal venues
80 tons of production equipment
330 million albums sold, still the best-selling female artist of all time
3600 square ft. of projection imagery to the show. The most amount of video ever used in a Madonna show.
200+ traveling crew – 25 in the costume department alone
30 ft. off the ground Madonna is transported around the arena in an illuminated portal frame that acts as a time machine allowing her to move at 1.5 ft per second, 80 ft across and 130 ft down the length of the arena designed to symbolize looking into the past, present and towards the future.
3700 amps of show power
 
..... forgive me

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She really has done well to keep this tour under wraps. There are so many “INSIDE LOOK AT MADONNA’S TOUR” click bait articles out there and they’re all just speculation and wondering out loud.
 
Padam S said:
The Celebration Tour by the numbers

4 decades of unstoppable hits – prepare to dance your ass off!
13th culture shaping tour
1 extraordinary drag queen
8th tour partnering with director Jamie King
24 onstage performers
1 Stuart Price reunion
4,400 square ft. of stage, the largest for any Madonna tour. Inspired by the grid of Manhattan with Uptown, Downtown, Midtown, East and West stages.
8 humidifiers in Madonna’s dressing room
1 bottle of MDNA Rose Mist Spray in each quick-change space
3 traveling mobile gyms
15 countries
78 shows
50 merch items including vintage recreations of iconic items from previous tours such as the Blond Ambition Bomber Jacket
45 wardrobe trunks
1 Queen sized Madonna flag outside the O2 (naturally)
6 sold out nights in London
3 layered circular stage where the traditional main stage would be, inspired by the wedding cake of Madonna’s original VMA performance
3 physical therapists
4 of Madonna’s children on stage
40 pairs of boxing gloves
230 ft. of combined length of catwalk that gets Madonna 105 ft far into the venue
14 spotlights for Madonna and over 600 intelligent lights to light the stage and arena with over 8800 lighting cues
17 archived costumes recreated
4 rehearsal venues
80 tons of production equipment
330 million albums sold, still the best-selling female artist of all time
3600 square ft. of projection imagery to the show. The most amount of video ever used in a Madonna show.
200+ traveling crew – 25 in the costume department alone
30 ft. off the ground Madonna is transported around the arena in an illuminated portal frame that acts as a time machine allowing her to move at 1.5 ft per second, 80 ft across and 130 ft down the length of the arena designed to symbolize looking into the past, present and towards the future.
3700 amps of show power
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How many toppy carrots?
 
supermassive said:
She must be scrambling to add a portion of time dedicated to the Middle East situation
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Just recreate the Eurovision performance, truly a greatest hit in anyone's book anyway.

In other news, Niki Harris is reported to be still available for dates in 2023 and 2024 and beyond.
 
Yes. If she had vanished from public view after Confessions and those were the first 2 snaps to surface 17 years later (after Confessions promo ceased) we'd all be on the floor screaming. I'm impressed.
 
OK I gave in and decided to watch a live stream from bed..

1. Nothing Really Matters
2. Everybody
3. Into the Groove

(Speech/story)

4. Burning Up

(Impromptu speech/story with Bob / reset due to technical problem)

5. Open Your Heart
6. Holiday
7. Live To Tell (with 'In This Life' intro)

8. MDNA Gregorian Chant (interlude)
9. Like A Prayer (outro incorporating elements of 'Unholy', 'Girl Gone Wild' and 'Act of Contrition')
10. Interlude: Living For Love (Offer Nissim remix with 'Let's Go Crazy')

11. Erotica/You Thrill Me (with 'Papa Don't Preach' string outro)
12. Justify My Love
13. Fever (short)
14. Hung Up (briefly starts as Hung Up On Tokischa - but then goes into original version)
15. Piano suite (Mercy James)
16. Bad Girl

17. Up Down Suite/Break My Soul (Queens Remix feat. Bob) (interlude)
18. Vogue
19. Human Nature/Crazy For You

20. The Beast Within (interlude)
21. Die Another Day
22. Don't Tell Me
23. Mother & Father

(speech / Lola birthday with "Little Star" a cappella)

24. I Will Survive (acoustic)
25. La Isla Bonita / Don't Cry for me Argentina
26. I Don't Search I Find remix interlude (iconic moments/interviews etc.)

27. Bedtime Story
28. Ray of Light (Sasha Remix)
29. (my stream died for a bit but apparently) Rain
30. Billie Jean/Like A Virgin (MJ/Madonna video montage interlude; with 'Angel' outro)

31. GAYLUV/Bitch I'm Madonna
32. Celebration/Music
 
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Full setlist is here

I'm a tad disappointed; some ODD choices given that there are some HUGE omissions. Track 24 is a LOVELY surprise though. I like that she largely ignores the last 15 years.
 
OH it's being updated in real time and not finished :o :D I thought

LAV

was the finale!

I wonder if she'll end with

Express Yourself

then because that is a BIG omission for me.
 
OK so
The stream was potato quality (mostly the ceiling) and he sang along to most of it but I would say that

- The stage looks next level as do the visuals and lighting
- The setlist is incredible
- The arrangements/remixes are fabulous (mostly faithful to the original versions/remixes etc. that everyone knows and loves)
- From what I could see at least, she looks good. Doesn't move much understandably.
- There's a backing track the whole way through the show and she dips in and out on top with live vocals. Sometimes she sounded good. Others not so good.

Can't wait till Tuesday!
 
The finale does kind of make sense and is acceptable in the grand scheme even though I'm not a FAN.

My suggestion of what else is missing would have been a great inclusion in the encore.
 
I think the only glaring omissions are
Frozen (but she gave us a majestic performance of that on the previous tour so I get why it was excluded here) and Express Yourself (although there's a tiny element of it in the LAV/Billie Jean video).

The way she paid Hard Candy dust tho :D - not complaining
 
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