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Was it Mr Spock? Zachary Quinto

I can’t recall tbh but the people all come flooding in back in my beloved nosebleed section promptly around 10:30 With their adult sippy cups. The lights probably flicker in the lobby and the bartenders probably tell folks too, I’d assume.

I’m such a weird Madonna fan but I prefer a perfect, official, Madonna-approved your release. RH Tour dvd audio is great on headphones.

I go to many different types of shows from jazz to dance to acoustic pretty often and have for years, Madame X Tour is next level for any artist and I’m glad I had a chance to experience it live. I saw Duran Duran on Broadway many years ago, people like Donald Trump, an Olsen Twin, and Moby were also stuck preshow in a lobby setting prior to the show however Madonna blew it out of the water in comparison. From what I saw “everybody knows the damn truth” about when the show really starts and arrived accordingly as there is no opening act. Also would you prefer a decent opening act then a long wait? I am impartial to either. At another Duranie show years later Juliet (Stuart Price produced her album Avalon) was the opener but the wait between the acts was agonizing. At BAM they play classic jazz standards which was also nice in comparison to filler music though I did enjoy how Stuart Price preprogrammed the tunes prior to Confessions and Reinvention. I remember going “fuck yes” when his remix of Mono’s Slimcea Girl was on before the show started. The way it all is presented on stage really leaves a lot of potential for a stellar filmed experience. Days later I’m still thinking of Crazy, Human Nature, American Life, Medellin, Come Alive... at least half of the set list if not more was just amazing. I also want a reel of Monte as he has a signature presence now. No one seems to mention Monte but he is a personal favorite and it makes me happy to see him on stage with her, it feels right and she seems confident with him there too. Even Trolling Stone gave the show a rave review. My only major beef was the ending tbh because Crave is such a bop and the dance remix was super random, she has such an arsenal of dance floor classics.

If she was limping I can totally understand it, I thought she looked a little uncomfortable during some moves. Hopefully adjustments are made accordingly if needed.

Come Alive was dope as fuck. Batuka and Killers ? thx Madame X loved the dick jokes. Also speaking of dicks those detectives looked familiar ???

https://canoe.com/entertainment/celebrity/bored-and-lonely-madonna-set-to-settle-down-in-lisbon-after-retirement

TONIGHT

Madame Xpectations ?

I saw Sheila E on Friday in concert and she does this cool trick with a beer bottle where she played it like a flute (like the Herbie Hancock song that is sampled in Sanctuary) between taking chugs ? idk if M could pull that off tho

I’m going on Tuesday ???

There should be a Madame X Tour - Psychological Breakdowns Regarding Visuals thread

But his Mom likes her music so idk it was nice to have the male features on Madame X versus the female rappers she had been gravitating towards.

Mambo Huncho TBH Madonna has warmed me personally to Quavo, I still think he's kinda corny but two features means she must really like the dude and his style.

I saw a thing on Twitter that Andy Cohen was on the Hoda Kotb morning show and shared his Polaroid from last night. Anyone catch it?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7480805/Madonna-61-enjoys-night-town-choreographer-Ahlamalik-Williams-24-NYC.html The show must be good if Daily Mail had literally no negative context in their article.

NY Press seems to be coming, there look to be articles in the Times (I've hit my limit sadly) and the Post: https://nypost.com/2019/09/18/madonna-kicks-off-tour-with-intimate-bam-concert/ Madonna kicks off tour with intimate BAM concert By Chuck Arnold September 18, 2019 | 5:05am | Updated Madonna was like a virgin — shiny and new all over again. In the first full concert of her sixth decade, the 61-year-old Queen of Pop ventured into unknown terrain, launching her “Madame X” theater tour at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House on Tuesday night. In a 37-year career playing arenas and stadiums, after rising up from the downtown New York club scene, she was still reinventing herself. This — the first of her 17-night stand at BAM ending Oct. 12 — was indeed uncharted territory for a woman who has done it all. Playing in such an intimate space after all these years, though, the pop diva of all pop divas was adamant about you not sharing videos and pics of her so up close and personal. Her no-cellphone policy required you to put your device in a pouch that wouldn’t allow you access to it until after the show or at designated phone stations outside of the theater. The Material Mom of six has gone from “Papa Don’t Preach” to “Mama Don’t Play.” She can still out-diva any opera diva on the planet. But as fans lined up around Fort Greene’s Ashland Place to get to the opera house entrance on Lafayette Street — no doubt slowed by having to put their phones in those YONDR pouches—it was the kind of New York scene befitting a New York icon. When it was announced that she wouldn’t even go on until 10:30 p.m. — despite the 8:30 start time on the ticket — fans didn’t even blink an eye. They knew the drill: You wait until Madonna is ready. When she finally took the stage around 10:45 p.m. to sing “God Control,” her anti-gun anthem from her “Madame X” album, some of her old fans who had been napping on their partners’ shoulders needed to heed the song’s call to “wake up” in a very literal sense. But just as Madonna wanted to keep it old-school with her no-cellphone policy — which was refreshing and relatively painless — the night was also a concession to the fact that she is, well, older now. That could be felt in her most throwback moment, when she took a Polaroid selfie of herself and sold it to old pal Rosie O’Donnell — her costar in 1992’s “A League of Their Own” — for a thousand dollars. But it could also be measured in the fact that this theater tour is not just a creative curve in a career where every move has been calculated, but it’s a reimagining of herself as an artist at a time when she can no longer do the choreography-heavy work that arenas and stadiums would demand of her. Let’s be real: There’s only so far Madonna had to walk from one side of the stage to the other at BAM. As shrewd of an agent as Madame X — the spy alter ego she adopted for her latest album — is, she had her dancers do the heavy lifting for her. Instead, she emphasized the performance art that has always been a part of her concerts at the expense of the moves that she honed when dance teacher Martha Graham first coined her “Madame X.” The setting and the sensibility turned up the theatrics of “Madame X” songs such as “Dark Ballet,” which, with its nod to Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker,” came to life in a way that made it dig into your soul more than the recording could. And make no mistake, this is a “Madame X” show. A good 80-85 percent of the two-hour-plus show is dedicated to her new album. That won’t make this tour the go-to show for the casual Madonna fan, but diehards hardly seemed to mind that she only gave you bits of faves such as “Express Yourself” and “La Isla Bonita” while concentrating on “Madame X” tracks such as “Medellín,” “Crazy” and “Come Alive” — the latter of which did just that with a gospel flourish that set the stage for “Like a Prayer” later. “Like a Prayer” and “Vogue” were two of the few straight-up Madonna classics that she really performed in full. But the highlight was another Madge hit, 1997’s “Frozen,” that she did as her oldest child, 22-year-old daughter Lourdes, did the dancing on video projections to keep it in the family groove. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/arts/music/madame-x-madonna.html Could some kind soul cut and paste the Times article?

Wanting, needing, waiting

I think it’s unfair to expect her to do a song in a show if it doesn’t work and she doesn’t want to just because an interviewer suggested she should and social media rolled with it. I love the song too but maybe she just wasn’t feeling it.

What night r u going? I'll bring a birdie and my badminton rackets and we can do this damn thang.

Less than two weeks ?

Those hats were like over a grand at the other pop up, IIRC. I'm gonna start rocking my wares from the last shop soon, gotta visit the new one this weekend!