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“This isn’t a flip-flops and shorts show!” yelled Madonna on Monday night, marking her Celebration Tour’s arrival in Los Angeles.

For the first time in close to a decade, the Material Girl returned to the Inglewood Forum in a breathless two-hour, forty minute-plus mammoth, visually enthralling, techno-savvy concert covering her 40-year career. The last time she played this L.A. haunt was October 2015 with her Rebel Tour.

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With nods in its production design and costumes by Donatella Versace, Jean Paul Gaultier, and even Federico Fellini (who the singer once asked to direct one of her music videos, only to be declined), there’s no question that the Celebration Tour continues to cement Madonna as the Queen of Pop.

And for anyone questioning that, Ms. Ciccone reminds us of her status in a penultimate homage segment, putting a shadowed projected image of herself next to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, as the duo have a dance-off set to their music “Like a Virgin” and “Billie Jean.”

Neither a four-day induced coma from a bacterial infection, nor being the age of retirement can stop this mezzo soprano, who continues to be as pitch perfect vocally as she was in the 1980s. No more is this evident amid the carnivalesque, symbolic sequences, which feasibly melt into each other, as the 7x Grammy Award winner settles for a mic and light for her performance of “Crazy for You,” a rendition that will zip one back to the slow dance days of junior high 1985.

To use a word from the Madonna glossary –ambitious– sums up the sophisticated artistry and expression that she brings to the stage with the Celebration Tour, as it recaptures moments in Madonna’s life from her NYC club days to the laser beam- infused 1990s (the near close of the show’s “Ray of Life”) and beyond.

Behold and pay respect, kids: Give unto Madonna’s what is Madonna’s. Look no further than the rotating wedding cake centerpiece stage which goes aflame during a “Beast Within/Justify Your Love.” Eilish at her December 2022 Happier Than Ever Kia Forum concert jumped on a plain-old industrial crane and stoked fans as it floated above their seats. But Madonna is fashionable and high-end: She gets inside a neon-lit plexiglass floating box above the entire crowd, which she boogies inside during such performances as “Ray of Light,” as well as “Live to Tell,” a beautiful memorium to those who died of AIDS, complete with an array of their images (i.e. Freddie Mercury) on myriad retractable screens.

Performing ‘Live to Tell’ Madonna honors victims of AIDS (📸 Anthony D’Alessandro/Deadline) pic.twitter.com/DchaObcuWZ — Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) March 6, 2024

“Beast Within” is one of several showstopping moments. Madonna in red Arabic garb stands on the shoulders of Arabic-clad dancers as she’s paraded around the multi-catwalks of the show, speaking the Biblical lyrics from Revelation, “Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear.”

On the trifecta of screens, we see images of her in Indian garb. The Arabic-clad dancers leave the red-clothed pop icon behind and form a circle in which one is ultimately beaten by the group. Jaw-dropping, political stuff, leaving the Forum to interpret.

An appetizer to this earlier in the show is the lead-up to “Like a Prayer,” in which a nun- clad Madonna and two other black habit-wearing dancers eventually make their way over to a rotating glass carousel (perhaps, church) filled with bare-chested men who appear to be hanging inside off crosses — but then they flip themselves upside down. All this against monk-chanting.

“Like A Prayer” (📸 Anthony D’Alessandro/Deadline) pic.twitter.com/hZsKDyYtTW — Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) March 6, 2024

From the onset of her show, Madonna always lets you know that you’re in for a ride. Her Confession tour, which kicked off at the Forum in May 2006, began with a wide-screen, oval-shaped landscape screen (amazing for its day), displaying black and white footage of her taming the horse that threw her. It was her way of showing that she had prevailed from her 2005 accident which cracked three of her ribs, and broke her collarbone and hand. For Celebration, the Bay City, Michigan native drops jaws again with a flipping circular light bridge against three screens as she takes the stage like a Mother of God, but in black, with a lightbulb lit halo singing, “Nothing Really Matters.”

Madonna concert in LA from Monday. She is singing Nothing Really Matters from Ray of Light album (📸 Anthony D’Alessandro) pic.twitter.com/IvLKpm9RgA — Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) March 6, 2024

For Celebration, Madonna counts creative directors Lewis James and Jamie King, the latter one of her former choreographers who was behind her Confessions concert. Madonna found James after being wowed by Post Malone’s show, an aesthetic layout which Celebration also took inspiration from.

“I went to this party, met this guy who told me he was in a band. It was like ‘Bing.’ I asked him if he would teach me how to play guitar. ‘What kind of exchange? What are you going to give to me?’ So, I was thinking about it…I went ‘I don’t know.’ Some things came to mind, and a couple of things came to mind, and it worked. So, that’s how I learned how to play guitar,” says the “Like a Virgin” crooner.

In a special express-herself moment at Monday night’s concert right before a sublime slowed down version of “Express Yourself,” Madonna shared that there was a special guest in the crowd, that being her doctor, Dr. David Agus, who she credited with saving her life after her hospitalization last June.

“This summer I had a surprise. It’s called… um… a near-death experience. Yes, and I’m not kidding. It was pretty scary. Obviously, I didn’t know for four days, because I was in an induced coma. But when I woke up, the first word I said was ‘No.’ Anyway, that’s what my assistant tells me. And I’m pretty sure that God was saying to me, ‘Do you wanna come with us? You wanna come with me? You wanna go this way?’ And I said, ‘No. No.’”

Madonna said that Agus, “put up with so many entertaining phone calls from me. When I was sick this summer and I literally couldn’t walk from my bed to the toilet, I would call him every other day and ask him why I didn’t have any energy.  When  was my energy gonna come back?  When  was I gonna feel myself again?  When  could I go back on tour again? When, when, when, when, when, when, when? And all he would say was, ‘Go outside in the sun.’”

Madonna continued “’Have you seen my skin?’ His response: ‘Go outside in the sun. You need Vitamin D so your kidneys will keep working.’ I couldn’t put those two together. And I hate the sun, but I did it anyways, and it was so hard for me to walk from my house to the backyard and sit in the sun. I know that sounds insane, but it was difficult, and I didn’t know when I could get up again and when I could be myself again and when I would have my energy back. It was a strange thing to finally not feel like I was in control. And that was my lesson to let go.”

She then turned to talking about the three-month postponement of her concert. “When my manager (Guy Oseary), that greedy bastard, came to me and said –he’s probably next to Dr. Agus right now. They’re planning… they have a new plot to almost kill me again. When he said, ‘Well, when do you think you wanna go back on tour?’I took the oxygen out of my nose, I looked at him, and I said, ‘In two fucking months!‘ … I swear to God, I just said it. And sometimes you just gotta say shit, put that out in the universe, and it happens. Are you with me, Los Angeles?”

Other eye-brow raising moments included her choosing not to sing “Material Girl.” Instead there was a black clad gaucho pulsating rendition of her 007 song “Die Another Day,” as well as a quick croon of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” from Alan Parker’s feature version of Evita, in which she starred and won a Golden Globe .

Said one attendee sitting next to me as to why they came to see Madonna: “After the bad news last summer, I thought, could this be her last time?”

Hopefully, dear God, never.

Leading into her Oscar party on Sunday night, Madonna is performing Thursday March 8, Saturday March 9, and Monday March 11 as part of a five-night booking. To date from 27 shows in Europe, her Celebration Tour has made a reported $77M-plus and significantly counting.

Below is the set list from Monday:

• Celebration Intro/Nothing Really Matters
• Into The Groove
• Open Your Heart
• Live To Tell
• Like A Prayer
• Act of Living For Love/The 90’s (Interlude)
• Erotica/Papa Don’t Preach
• Justify My Love/Fever
• Hung Up On Tokischa
• Vogue (Estere’s Ball)
• Human Nature/Crazy For You
• The Beast Within (Interlude)
• Die Another Day
• Don’t Tell Me
• Mother And Father
• Express Yourself/La Isla Bonita/Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
• I Don’t Search I Find (Interlude)
• Bedtime Story
• Ray of Light
• Billie Jean vs. Like A Virgin
• GMAYL/Bitch I’m Madonna

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Madonna announces north american and european dates for 2023 celebration tour.

The superstar will explore her musical journey across four decades through concerts announced in a video featuring Amy Schumer, Lil Wayne, Kate Berlant, Jack Black, Judd Apatow, Eric Andre, Diplo and more.

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The tour will kick off this July in Vancouver and end in December in Amsterdam, spanning 35 cities in total across North America and Europe. Other major stops during the first leg include Detroit, Chicago, New York, Miami and Los Angeles, with 11 additional dates outside North America — in London, Barcelona, Paris and Stockholm, among others — slated for the fall and early winter.

Produced by Live Nation and featuring Bob the Drag Queen (Caldwell Tidicue) at all dates on the tour, the music event will honor Madonna’s musical journey across four decades with a special celebration of New York, the city where her career began. “I am excited to explore as many songs as possible in hopes to give my fans the show they have been waiting for,” Madonna said in a statement included in her tour announcement .

Celebration Tour tickets go on sale at madonna.com/tour starting Friday at 10 a.m. local time. U.S. Citi cardmembers, European and Canadian AMEX cardmembers as well as Legacy members of Madonna’s official fan club will have access to separate presales. VIP packages — featuring premium tickets, exclusive access to a behind-the-scenes tour, a group photo onstage, a pre-show reception, a limited edition lithograph and more — will also be available at vipnation.com . 

The Celebration tour arrives nearly 40 years after Madonna’s 1985 North American Virgin Tour. Madonna last toured in 2019 and early 2020 as part of her Madame X theater tour.

More on the Celebration tour, including its dates and presales, can be found at madonna.com .

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Madonna  has announced that she will conclude her blockbuster ‘Celebration’ tour with a free concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Saturday, May 4th at Copacabana Beach. 

The show will be free of charge as a thank you to her fans for celebrating more than four decades of her music over the course of the epic global run of the tour.  Sponsored by Itaú Apresenta, it will mark Madonna’s first show in Brazil since 2012. 

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The Celebration Tour continues tonight with the second of two shows in Dallas before making stops in Houston, Atlanta, Austin and more.  The upcoming dates also include three nights in Miami at the Kaseya Center (April 6th, 7th, and 9th) and five nights at Palacio De Los Deportes in Mexico City.

Information about the event can be found www.madonnainrio.com and  https://www.instagram.com/bonustrack.live/

The Celebration Tour Upcoming 2024 Dates

Mon, Mar 24              Dallas, TX                   American Airlines Center

Thu, Mar 28               Houston, TX              Toyota Centre

Fri, Mar 29                 Houston, TX              Toyota Centre

Thu, Apr 4                  Tampa, FL                  Amalie Arena

Sat, Apr 6                   Miami, FL                    Kaseya Center

Sun, Apr 7                  Miami, FL                    Kaseya Center

Tue, Apr 9                  Miami, FL                    Kaseya Center

Sun, Apr 14                 Austin, TX                  Moody Center

Mon, Apr 15               Austin, TX                  Moody Center

Sat, Apr 20                Mexico City, MX        Palacio De Los Deportes

Sun, Apr 21                Mexico City, MX        Palacio De Los Deportes

Tue, Apr 23                Mexico City, MX        Palacio De Los Deportes

Wed, Apr 24              Mexico City, MX        Palacio De Los Deportes

Fri, Apr 26                  Mexico City, MX        Palacio De Los Deportes

Sat, May 5                    Rio de Janeiro, BZ         Copacabana Beach

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Madonna announces rescheduled Celebration Tour dates after hospital stay in ICU

Madonna is ready to resume the celebration.

Following the postponement of her era-spanning Celebration Tour this summer after being sidelined by a bacterial infection that landed her in the ICU , Madonna will officially launch the worldwide jaunt Oct. 14 in London.

The North American leg will begin Dec. 13 with three shows in Brooklyn, followed by a pair in Washington, D.C., multiple dates in Boston and Toronto and dozens of other shows through April.

Tickets for previously scheduled concerts will be honored at the new dates with the exceptions of Los Angeles and New York due to venue changes.

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Madonna date changes in New York and Los Angeles

Fans with tickets to the previously scheduled Aug. 27 show at Madison Square Garden will be automatically refunded by Aug. 28. Ticketmaster will then provide those ticketholders with a link and unique code based on their previous seat location to purchase tickets to the new date at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Dec. 16. Any remaining tickets will go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. ET Sept. 1.

Those with tickets for the Sept. 27-28 and Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 shows in Los Angeles at Crypto.com Arena will also be automatically refunded by Aug. 28 with a follow-up link and code provided to purchase tickets for the rescheduled dates in Aug. 29-31 and Sept. 1-4, 2024. Remaining tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. PT Sept. 5.

All sales are via ticketmaster.com .

Which Madonna concerts have been canceled?

A few shows have been canceled due to scheduling conflicts: July 27 in Tulsa; Dec. 22 in Nashville; Jan. 15 in San Francisco; Jan. 18 in Las Vegas; and Jan. 20 in Phoenix.

Refunds will be available at point of purchase.

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Madonna Announces 'The Celebration Tour'

Today, Madonna announced Madonna: The Celebration Tour , in an iconic viral video with a wink to her groundbreaking film Truth or Dare. The video  (click here for trailer version) features notable names such as Diplo, Judd Apatow, Jack Black, Lil Wayne, Bob The Drag Queen, Kate Berlant, Larry Owens, Meg Stalter, Eric Andre and culminates with Amy Schumer daring the global superstar to go on tour and perform her four decades of mega hits. Madonna, the best-selling female solo touring artist of all time, rises to the challenge announcing The Celebration Tour which will be highlighting her unmatched catalog of music from the past 40 plus years. Produced by Live Nation, the 35-city global tour will kick off in North America on Saturday, July 15th at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, BC with stops in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and more before making its way to Europe where she will hit 11 cities throughout the fall, including London, Barcelona, Paris, and Stockholm, among others. The Celebration Tour will wrap in Amsterdam, NL on Friday, December 1st at Ziggo Dome. The Celebration Tour will take us on Madonna’s artistic journey through four decades and pays respect to the city of New York where her career in music began. “I am excited to explore as many songs as possible in hopes to give my fans the show they have been waiting for,” states Madonna. The Celebration Tour will offer a one-of-a-kind experience with special guest Bob the Drag Queen a.k.a. Caldwell Tidicue across all dates on the global tour. TICKETS: Tickets go on sale Friday, January 20 and Friday, January 27at 10am local time at madonna.com/tour .

FAN CLUB PRESALE:  Legacy members of Madonna’s Official Fan Club will have a pre-sale opportunity for the shows that go on sale on Friday, January 20 beginning Tuesday, January 17 at 12pm ET through Wednesday, January 18 at 5pm ET for the North America based shows and from 9am GMT/10am CET to 5pm GMT/6pm CET on Wednesday, January 18 for UK and European shows. An additional Legacy pre-sale for the North American based shows going on sale on January 27th begins on Monday, January 23 (10am) through Wednesday, January 25 (5pm). U.S. CITI PRESALE: Citi is the official card of Madonna The Celebration Tour. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets for shows going on sale January 20th beginning Tuesday, January 17 at 2pm local time through Thursday, January 19 at 6pm local time through the Citi Entertainment program. The Citi cardmember presale for the shows going on sale on January 27 will begin Tuesday, January 24 at 10am local time through Thursday, January 26 at 6pm local time. For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com . CANADA AMEX PRESALE:  American Express Cardmembers will have access to presale tickets in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal beginning Wednesday January 18 at 10am local time through Thursday, January 19 at 6pm local time. Visit ticketmaster.ca/americanexpress)] to purchase tickets.  Ticket limits & terms apply. EUROPE AMEX PRESALE: American Express Cardmembers can purchase tickets to Madonna’s tour in Sweden, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Belgium before the general public. Pre-sale open from 18 January at 9am, until 19 January at 6pm. VIP: Fans can also purchase VIP Packages, which may include premium tickets, exclusive access to a behind the scenes tour, group photo on-stage, pre-show reception, limited edition lithograph & more. For more information, visit vipnation.com . THE CELEBRATION TOUR NORTH AMERICAN DATES:   Sat Jul 15 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena Tue Jul 18 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena Sat Jul 22 – Phoenix, AZ – Footprint Center Tue Jul 25 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena Thu Jul 27 – Tulsa, OK – BOK Center Sun Jul 30 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center Wed Aug 02 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse Sat Aug 05 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena Mon. Aug 07 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena Wed Aug 09 – Chicago, IL – United Center Sun Aug 13 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena Sat Aug 19 – Montreal, QC – Centre Bell Wed Aug 23 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden Thu Aug 24 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden Wed Aug 30 – Boston, MA – TD Garden Sat Sep 02 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena Tue Sep 05 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena Thu Sep 07 – Tampa, FL – Amalie Arena Sat Sep 09 – Miami, FL – Miami-Dade Arena Wed Sep 13 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center Mon Sep 18 – Dallas, TX – American Airlines Center Thu Sep 21 – Austin, TX – Moody Center ATX Wed Sep 27 – Los Angeles, CA – Crypto.com Arena Wed Oct 04 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center Sat Oct 07 – Las Vegas, NV – T-Mobile Arena THE CELEBRATION TOUR EUROPE DATES:  Sat Oct 14 – London, UK – The O2 Sat Oct 21 – Antwerp, BE – Sportpaleis Wed. Oct. 25 – Copenhagen, DK – Royal Arena Sat Oct 28 – Stockholm, SE – Tele2 Wed Nov 01 – Barcelona, ES – Palau Sant Jordi Mon Nov 06 – Lisbon, PT – Altice Arena Sun Nov 12 – Paris, FR – Accor Arena Mon Nov 13 – Paris, FR – Accor Arena Wed Nov 15 – Cologne, DE – Lanxess Arena Thu Nov 23 – Milan, IT – Mediolanum Forum Tue Nov 28 – Berlin, DE – Mercedes-Benz Arena Fri Dec 1 – Amsterdam, NL – Ziggo Dome

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Madonna Joined by Salma Hayek for ‘Vogue’ in Mexico City as Celebration Tour Wraps

The actress, wearing a Frida Kahlo-inspired outfit, was a guest judge for the number.

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Madonna has just one show left on her current itinerary, a free concert on May 4 at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that Visit Rio officials said is forecast to bring in two million fans. Entrance to the show, sponsored by Itaú Bank, is on a first-come, first-served basis on the day of the event. Fans who can’t attend will be able to watch the show broadcast live on TV Globo.

Mexico City hosted Madonna for a series of five concerts at the Palacio De Los Deportes. Last weekend, on Saturday, April 20, the singer spoke of her love of Mexican culture and Kahlo, telling the audience how she discovered the painter’s art as a young girl.

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“As you know, I have a great history, a long history with Mexico,” said Madonna, who reportedly met with the Kahlo family at their home in the city neighborhood of El Pedregal.

“When I was a girl,” she said, “I discovered Frida Kahlo. I went to the only museum that existed in Detroit, and there were Diego Rivera murals everywhere, but to be honest, I was more interested in a small picture in a corner, of a beautiful woman with her hair gathered in braids and intense eyes.”

The Celebration Tour kicked off in the fall, after a delayed start due to Madonna’s hospitalization for a serious bacterial infection over the summer.

See a clip of Hayek’s visit to Madonna’s “Vogue” set in Mexico City below.

Madonna performing “Vogue” at The Celebration Tour in Mexico City, Mexico, April 26, 2024. With Salma Hayek (dressed up like Frida Kahlo) serving as the guest judge. 🇲🇽 #Madonna #CelebrationTour #MadonnaCelebrationTour #SalmaHayek pic.twitter.com/Ip46sfsFMb — Madonna Nation ❌ (@MadonnaNationX) April 27, 2024

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Madonna Pays Tribute to Her Kids as She Shares Behind-the-Scenes Photos with Them from Her Celebration Tour

The singer is mom to six kids — Lourdes, Rocco, David, Mercy, Stella and Estere

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Madonna is taking a minute to honor her kids.

On Thursday, April 25, the singer, 65, shared a series of behind-the-scenes photos on Instagram of herself and her kids from the past few months after they joined her on stage during her Celebration Tour. In the first photo, Madonna is surrounded by three of her six kids — son David, 18 and twins Estere and Stella, 11 — as they engulf her in a group hug.

Other photos show David and Madonna playing guitar together, daughter Mercy, 18, getting a kiss on the cheek from one of her sisters, as well as scenes of all of them on stage with their mother.

"On the day before our 80th show of the Celebration Tour I need to acknowledge my incredibly talented children who carried me through this Journey each of them bringing their own unique talent to the stage," the proud mom began in her caption.

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"Rehearsals began over a year ago with almost a 2 month break waiting for me recover from a near death experience. They never stopped practicing… they never stopped cheering me on and supporting me," she continued. "There [sic] enthusiasm kept me Going!!!"

"They were also going to school and rehearsing every night. !! . am so very proud of all of them. I think what my children learned the most this year of rehearsing and performing is that if you who to follow your dreams, you have to work hard for them."

"And if all of them choose something different later in life, they will never forget this year of blood, sweat, and tears. Nor will I. ♥️ It’s a CELEBRATION," Madonna ended her caption.

In an interview with  W. Magazine earlier this week, the "Material Girl" singer spoke about her Celebration Tour , which concludes in the coming weeks with a few stops in South America.

"When I go on tour, nothing brings me more happiness than to know we are all working on the same show, creating the magic together," the proud mom said. "It would be boring if they were just traveling from hotel to hotel, and occasionally coming to watch the show."

"Of course, I am their mother so sometimes we get on each other's nerves. We are a family of artists but we are also a family, and that's what happens."

Madonna is mom to six kids — Lourdes, 27, Rocco, 23, David, Mercy, and twins Stella and Estere. Her son David and daughters Mercy, Stella and Estere joined her on stage for this tour.

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Madonna performed her penultimate concert on her massive Celebration Tour in Mexico City on Friday night, and to mark the occasion she invited surprise guest Salma Hayek . The actress served as a judge during the “Vogue” ballroom competition at Madonna’s concert at the Palacio de Los Deportes.

Hayek shared videos and photos from the moment via Instagram on Saturday. Channeling Frida Kahlo — the legendary painter whom the actress portrayed in the 2002 film — with her vibrant ensemble, she is seen in a Vogue pose and on stage beside Madonna ready to share score cards as a ballroom judge of the dancers’ performances during “Vogue.”

“Thank you so much @madonna for letting me be a part of your iconic celebration tour,” Hayek captioned the post. “This unforgettable night goes in my bag of precious treasures. #VIVAMEXICO #VIVAMADONNA .”

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The performance marks the star’s first time performing in Brazil since 2012 (during her MDNA run), and is billed to be “a thank you to her fans for celebrating more than four decades of her music over the course of the epic global run of the tour.”

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Madonna sued by fans again after starting concert late

Madonna's fans have had enough of her late concert starts.

A group of fans who attended the pop star's Washington, D.C., concert on April 18 and 19 sued Madonna for "wanton exercise in false advertising, intentional and negligent misrepresentation and unfair and deceptive trade practices," according to the complaint obtained by FOX Business.

"Madonna and Live Nation have publicly stated that it is not reasonable for consumers to believe that the 8:30 start time on the ticket indicates that’s when the concert will begin and that no concerts start on the start time as advertised," the court documents read.

MADONNA SUED BY CONCERTGOERS FOR ALLEGEDLY STARTING SHOW 2 HOURS LATE: ‘NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATION’

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This isn't Madonna's first lawsuit from fans. She was previously sued in New York by Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden for "unconscionable, unfair, and/or deceptive trade practices" after starting her "Celebration Tour" Brooklyn stop late.

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Madonna's concert was advertised as beginning at 8:30 p.m., but the "Material Girl" singer did not make it to the stage until 10:30 p.m. on all three nights at the Barclays Center, according to the court docs.

"Madonna had demonstrated flippant difficulty in ensuring a timely or complete performance, and Defendants were aware that any statement as to a start time for a show constituted, at best, optimistic speculation," the lawsuit alleged.

Madonna's legal team has since filed a motion to dismiss the class action suit.

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Madonna is notoriously late for her concerts and was sued in 2019 for pushing back a Madame X tour stop in Miami. A fan attempted to get a refund after the concert had been rescheduled from the original start time of 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., NBC reported.

Ticketholders had to work and go to school the next day, which prevented them from attending a concert that would end at around 1:00 a.m.," the suit claimed, according to the outlet. "(Nate) Hollander attempted, without success, to obtain a refund for the three tickets purchased for the Madonna concert."

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Madonna also took the stage late on the opening night of the Celebration Tour in the U.S., December 13. A source familiar with the matter told FOX Business that Madonna had been about an hour late for the concert in Brooklyn. The pop star sound-checked nearly until the doors opened at 7:30 p.m., the insider said.

At one point during the concert, Madonna asked the crowd whether they could hear her, because she was hearing an echo in her earpiece, the source explained.

Madonna's Celebration Tour, which also marked her 40-year anniversary in the entertainment industry, was postponed in July 2023 after the star suffered a "serious bacterial infection" that required an ICU stay in June.

She eventually took the stage in December following her recovery.

Madonna recently spoke with W Magazine about life on tour with her kids, saying, "nothing brings me more happiness than to know we are all working on the same show, creating the magic together."

The mother of six explained, "It would be boring if they were just traveling from hotel to hotel, and occasionally coming to watch the show. Of course, I am their mother, so sometimes we get on each other’s nerves. We are a family of artists, but we are also a family, and that’s what happens."

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Madonna shares sweet behind-the-scenes photos from tour with kids: ‘Very proud of all of them’

The "Material Girl" singer is a proud mom.

Madonna is a proud mom.

The singer, who is currently on her "Celebration Tour" , shared a sweet post on Thursday praising her kids, who have performed on stage with her.

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“On the day before our 80th show of the Celebration Tour I need to acknowledge my incredibly talented children who carried me through this Journey each of them bringing their own unique talent to the stage,” Madonna wrote in the caption of the post, which included a series of photos.

“Rehearsals began over a year ago with almost a 2 month break waiting for me to recover from a near death experience,” she continued. “They never stopped practicing… they never stopped cheering me on and supporting me.”

“There enthusiasm kept me Going!!!” she added. “They were also going to school and rehearsing every night. !! I am so very proud of them.”

Madonna ended her sweet message by sharing what she thinks her children have taken away from the experience of taking the stage with her.

“I think what my children learned the most this year of rehearsing and performing is that if you [want] to follow your dreams, you have to work hard for them,” she said. “And if all of them choose something different later in life, they will never forget this year of blood, sweat, and tears. Nor will I.”

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The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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Komsomolskaya metro station looks like a museum. It has vaulted ceilings and baroque decor.

Hidden underground, in the heart of Moscow, are historical and architectural treasures of Russia. These are Soviet-era creations – the metro stations of Moscow.

Our guide Maria introduced these elaborate metro stations as “the palaces for the people.” Built between 1937 and 1955, each station holds its own history and stories. Stalin had the idea of building beautiful underground spaces that the masses could enjoy. They would look like museums, art centers, concert halls, palaces and churches. Each would have a different theme. None would be alike.

The two-hour private tour was with a former Intourist tour guide named Maria. Maria lived in Moscow all her life and through the communist era of 60s to 90s. She has been a tour guide for more than 30 years. Being in her 60s, she moved rather quickly for her age. We traveled and crammed with Maria and other Muscovites on the metro to visit 10 different metro stations.

Arrow showing the direction of metro line 1 and 2

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To Maria, every street, metro and building told a story. I couldn’t keep up with her stories. I don’t remember most of what she said because I was just thrilled being in Moscow.   Added to that, she spilled out so many Russian words and names, which to one who can’t read Cyrillic, sounded so foreign and could be easily forgotten.

The metro tour was the first part of our all day tour of Moscow with Maria. Here are the stations we visited:

1. Komsomolskaya Metro Station  is the most beautiful of them all. Painted yellow and decorated with chandeliers, gold leaves and semi precious stones, the station looks like a stately museum. And possibly decorated like a palace. I saw Komsomolskaya first, before the rest of the stations upon arrival in Moscow by train from St. Petersburg.

2. Revolution Square Metro Station (Ploshchad Revolyutsii) has marble arches and 72 bronze sculptures designed by Alexey Dushkin. The marble arches are flanked by the bronze sculptures. If you look closely you will see passersby touching the bronze dog's nose. Legend has it that good luck comes to those who touch the dog's nose.

Touch the dog's nose for good luck. At the Revolution Square station

Revolution Square Metro Station

3. Arbatskaya Metro Station served as a shelter during the Soviet-era. It is one of the largest and the deepest metro stations in Moscow.

Arbatskaya Metro Station

4. Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station was built in 1935 and named after the Russian State Library. It is located near the library and has a big mosaic portrait of Lenin and yellow ceramic tiles on the track walls.

Lenin's portrait at the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station

5. Kievskaya Metro Station was one of the first to be completed in Moscow. Named after the capital city of Ukraine by Kiev-born, Nikita Khruschev, Stalin's successor.

Kievskaya Metro Station

6. Novoslobodskaya Metro Station  was built in 1952. It has 32 stained glass murals with brass borders.

Novoslobodskaya metro station

7. Kurskaya Metro Station was one of the first few to be built in Moscow in 1938. It has ceiling panels and artwork showing Soviet leadership, Soviet lifestyle and political power. It has a dome with patriotic slogans decorated with red stars representing the Soviet's World War II Hall of Fame. Kurskaya Metro Station is a must-visit station in Moscow.

Ceiling panel and artworks at Kurskaya Metro Station

8. Mayakovskaya Metro Station built in 1938. It was named after Russian poet Vladmir Mayakovsky. This is one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world with 34 mosaics painted by Alexander Deyneka.

Mayakovskaya station

One of the over 30 ceiling mosaics in Mayakovskaya metro station

9. Belorusskaya Metro Station is named after the people of Belarus. In the picture below, there are statues of 3 members of the Partisan Resistance in Belarus during World War II. The statues were sculpted by Sergei Orlov, S. Rabinovich and I. Slonim.

10. Teatralnaya Metro Station (Theatre Metro Station) is located near the Bolshoi Theatre.

Teatralnaya Metro Station decorated with porcelain figures .

Taking the metro's escalator at the end of the tour with Maria the tour guide.

Have you visited the Moscow Metro? Leave your comment below.

January 15, 2017 at 8:17 am

An excellent read! Thanks for much for sharing the Russian metro system with us. We're heading to Moscow in April and exploring the metro stations were on our list and after reading your post, I'm even more excited to go visit them. Thanks again 🙂

December 6, 2017 at 10:45 pm

Hi, do you remember which tour company you contacted for this tour?

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