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Madonna Opens Her Heart & Expresses Herself At Felliniesque L.A. Concert; Gives Shout-out To Doctor Who Saved Her – Review


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.

With nods in its production design and costumes to 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. 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. 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 starred and won a Golden Globe.

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