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    Today in Madonna History

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    TV report on the Speed The Plow premiere.

    Speed-the-Plow premiered on Broadway at the Royale Theatre in a production by the Lincoln Center Theater, opening on May 3, 1988 and closing on Dec 31, 1988 after 279 performances. The cast featured Joe Mantegna (Gould), Ron Silver (Fox) and Madonna (Karen). 

    The play was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play and Best Direction of a Play (Gregory Mosher). Silver won a Tony Award for Best Actor (Play). It has since been produced countless times in regional theaters and schools across the country.❤??☄??

     

    Today in Madonna History

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    ET report on the Speed The Plow premiere.

    Speed-the-Plow premiered on Broadway at the Royale Theatre in a production by the Lincoln Center Theater, opening on May 3, 1988 and closing on Dec 31, 1988 after 279 performances. The cast featured Joe Mantegna (Gould), Ron Silver (Fox) and Madonna (Karen). 

    The play was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play and Best Direction of a Play (Gregory Mosher). Silver won a Tony Award for Best Actor (Play). It has since been produced countless times in regional theaters and schools across the country.❤??☄??

     

    Today in Madonna History

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    3rd April 1987 La Isla Bonita landed at number 32 on the Australian @aria_official chart. In a week filled with acts that had trouble regularly achieving hit singles, it's fitting that the exception to the rule is a singer whose biggest fall from grace to date had been the fact that her previous single, "Open Your Heart", had only reached number 16 (breaking a lengthy run of top 10 hits). But that'd been pretty much what you'd expect for the fourth single from a number 1 album. 

    And yet, along came the fifth single from True Blue - an album which returned to the top 50 for a 38th week this week - and peaked 10 places higher. Clearly, the reason "La Isla Bonita" did so well despite it being the album's fifth single is that the Latin-influenced track was unlike anything Madonna had ever released before. It was also the type of song that would've made people who didn't like her pop/dance sound sit up and take notice - then go out and buy it. 

    Throw in yet another image change (or two) in the music video and it proved yet again that she knew when the time was right to mix things up. An early version of the song had been offered by co-writers Patrick Leonard and Bruce Gaitsch to Michael Jackson, but when he turned it down, Madonna added her own contributions to the track and slotted it into True Blue. As well as being among her most successful singles of the '80s, "La Isla Bonita" seems to be one of Madonna's favourite songs as well, with it regularly featuring in her live sets ever since its release. The video is worth rewatching, if only for the old guy at the end who dances in the street with Madonna holding his shopping bags.

    Info thanks to Chart Beats

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    Today in Madonna History

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    On May 2 2008,  

    On May 2 2008,  Madonna sat down with Steven “Cojo” Cojocaru at Dylan’s Candy Bar in New York to discuss her Hard Candy album.

    When asked to describe what or who she is, Madonna replied:

    “I think I’m many things. I think I’m a lady, I think I’m a brat, I think I’m a nerd, I think I’m a pimp, I think I’m a mother, I think I’m a kid. It was fun being a brat. I’ve got my cheeky side.”

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    sat down with Steven “Cojo” Cojocaru at Dylan’s Candy Bar in New York to discuss her Hard Candy album.

    When asked to describe what or who she is, Madonna replied:

    “I think I’m many things. I think I’m a lady, I think I’m a brat, I think I’m a nerd, I think I’m a pimp, I think I’m a mother, I think I’m a kid. It was fun being a brat. I’ve got my cheeky side.”

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    Today in Madonna History

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    On May 2 2019, Hello Magazine published a glowing review of Madonna & Maluma’s live performance of Medellin at the Billboard Music Awards (which aired on May 1).

    Here’s a snippet of the review:

    Madonna made a comeback like no other on Wednesday night as she broke boundaries once again on stage at the Billboard Music Awards. The American pop sensation took to the stage as she performed her new single Medellin with singer Maluma. Halfway into the performance, the pair were joined by four life-like holograms of Madonna, which appeared alongside them before quickly vanishing in puffs of smoke. Each hologram was wearing one of the costumes Madonna modelled in the music video for Medellin, and appeared again later in the performance, continuing to dance alone on the stage as Madonna and Maluma made their way into the crowds. The holograms were created by world-leading volumetric and 3D capture studio Dimension.

    This was Madonna’s first performance at the Billboard Music Awards in over four years, and Maluma was only too happy to be sharing the stage with her. This was the Colombian star’s first-ever performance at the prestigious awards, and told E! on the red carpet how their collaboration came about. He said: “It was crazy, I went to the VMAs. I met her [Madonna] over there, then I was touring in Europe and in London she called me and she said she had a song for me called Medellín. I’m from Medellín, Columbia and it’s crazy that she said that she wanted me to be part of the project.” Madonna was just as happy to perform with Maluma, and said after the performance: “Madame X on stage performing with her favourite Papi – thank you @maluma.”

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    Today in Madonna History

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    On May 2 1987, La Isla Bonita, the fifth and final single from Madonna’s True Blue album hit #4 in the USA.

    The instrumental version of the song was first offered to Michael Jackson before Madonna both accepted it and wrote the lyrics and melody. La Isla Bonita is noted for being the first Madonna song to have a Latino influence in it, with arrangements of Cuban drums and Spanish guitar,maracas, harmonicas and a mix of synthesized and real drumming.

    The town of San Pedro in the island of Ambergris Caye, Belize is thought to be the main inspiration behind the song.

    However, Madonna later told Rolling Stone: "I don't know where San Pedro is. At that point, I wasn't a person who went on holidays to beautiful islands.

    "I may have been on the way to the studio and seen an exit ramp for San Pedro."

    She also described the song as her tribute to the "beauty and mystery of Latin American people".

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