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I bet she recycles this footage for tour visuals which I'm here for.

LMAO at these replies 🤣😂

MJ Wanna Be Starting something has looped for the past 40 mins. The lights go down for a video intro - a mash up of M with different filters and instagram stock footage from the past 5 years. 
Voice over: Madame x is a head of state, a house keeper, a whore, and a candy saleswoman
A coffin with a Madonna effigy is set on fire on the stage, as an orange hair braided M emerges - with a breathwork style rendition of Candy Shop mixed with B-Day Song. 

Lights go down (it's past midnight), and a video montage of past posts on Instagram begins to Frozen (Sickik Remix)...music video footage of her driving with long blonde hair gets closer and closer to the screen until a car appears on stage. She slowly gets out of it dressed in braids and the alien sunglasses. A piano starts playing. A torch ballad version of Hung Up begins as black and white footage from the Confessions Tour plays in the background, properly putting that era to rest for the gays, once and for all.

After everything is dark and the anxiety is kicking in like a wild goat, a video interlude starts with Madonna whispering the lyrics to Dance 2nite & Ring My Bell, and after a explosion of confetti, she comes up singing Incredible.

The room goes dark then the lights come back on, a video sequence begins Madonna comes on stage and opens with.......A mashup of Candy Shop & Back That Up To The Beat.

The room goes dark then the lights come back on, a video sequence begins Madonna comes on stage and opens with.......A mashup of Candy Shop & Back That Up To The Beat.

I don't think it'll happen till after the celebration tour but I'd love it if she worked MNEK, SG Lewis, Stuart Price & Blood Orange on it.

I love the idea of her performing an Unreleased song on tour 
This is such a cool idea 

MADONNA: THE RAY OF LIGHT TOUR 1999
Set List
ACT 1: RAINFOREST (WATER)
01. Drowned World/Substitute For Love
02. Swim
03. Bedtime Story (Orbital Remix) 
04. Rain (Contains elements from "Water From A Vine Leaf" by William Orbit)
ACT 2: MIDDLE EASTERN (EARTH)
Shanti/Astangi - Interlude
05. Skin
06. Frozen (Contains elements from the Stereo MC's Remix & "Open Your Heart")
07. Revenge
08. Secret
09. You'll See
ACT 3: LATIN (FIRE)
Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Dance Interlude
10. I Want You (Marvin Gaye cover) / Teardrop (Massive Attack cover)
11. To Have And Not To Hold 
12. La Isla Bonita
13. Take A Bow
ACT 4: GEISHA (AIR)
Bittersweet - Interlude
14. Nothing Really Matters (Contains elements from the Kruder & Dorfmeister Remix)
15. Sky Fits Heaven (Contains elements from "Hyberballad" by Björk)
16. The Power Of Goodbye
ENCORE
17. Holiday (Contains elements from "Music Sounds Better With You" by Stardust)
18. Ray Of Light (Contains elements from the Sasha Remix)

Thanks, It came from a rumour/scrapped idea for the rebel heart tour.

The Madonna apologists in this thread sicken me.
Anyway she will come on late. Anyone expecting that to change completely is delusional.

It is so irksome to hear this continuing narrative around Madonna’s lack of “professionalism”. She is an absolute consummate professional on every level. She has performed countless shows despite having injuries, sickness and facing other adverse circumstances over the years in order to give her public what they paid for. She is not a product. She is a human being who has consistently shown superhuman stamina and strength. That’s how I choose to see her in any case…I try to remember that she is a dedicated mother who agreed to continue touring on her own terms; this idea that she deserves a terrible reputation for poor showmanship is unfair. We all know she was in agony throughout her last tour and in the midst of a deep emotional crisis the time before that. 
I have seen abbreviated shows. I have experienced long waits. It can be a bit boring when you attend a show alone if you’re a little introverted like me, but if you go with friends the entire experience can be socially enjoyable, even when you’ve been at the venue for three or four hours. As someone else pointed out, don’t get drunk or high before the concert starts because you may either lose your buzz or become too intoxicated by the time the show begins, making the experience a total dud. I know people who struggle with this, and they always blame the artist!
Another basic tip…Make sure you eat and hydrate before going to the venue, and dress appropriately. Sometimes the venue can go from being freezing to hotter than hell!
I saw Madame X at the Wiltern in LA and walked home to West Hollywood (5 miles…around 2 hours) at 1am as there was an Uber shortage. I didn’t let it ruin my experience. I made it a part of my experience. I put on my headphones and listened to the studio version of the songs in the setlist. I took in the surreal experience of going from a packed theater to the empty early morning streets of LA. I was vigilant, but deeply contemplative after witnessing an unusual show filled with subtleties I had not yet fully processed. 
 
My advice for anyone going to see this tour: Avoid expectation and you will adjust to the outcome in full appreciation of what you have seen and heard! It’s a privilege to get to see her live again, and I am determined to fully enjoy it.

OK here's the 3rd version of it
MADONNA: The Celebration Tour 2023
Set List
ACT 1: MASQUERADE
MLVC - Video Introduction (Contains elements from "4 Minutes", "Hung Up", "Give Me All Your Luvin" & "Vogue")
01. Vogue (Contains elements from "I Don't Search, I Find", "Holy Water" & "Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)" by Beyoncé)
02. Material Girl (Contains excepts from "Material Gworrllllllll!")
03. Express Yourself / Open Your Heart
04. Everybody
 
ACT 2: EROTIC DUNGEON
Rules Of Attraction - Video Interlude (Contains elements from "Physical Attraction", "Heartbeat", "Forbidden Love (2005)", "Best Night", "Crazy" & "I Want You")
05. Like A Virgin (Contains excepts from "Erotica" & "Unholy" by Sam Smith)
06. Justify My Love (Rock Version) (Contains elements from "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin)
07. Human Nature (Contains excepts from "Don't Tell Me")
08. Deeper And Deeper (Contains elements from "Rescue Me", "Living For Love", "Up Down Suite" & "Show Me Love" by Robin S)
 
ACT 3: IBERIAN SUNSET
Latin Medley - Dance Interlude (Contains elements from "You'll See", "Pray For Spanish Eyes", "To Have And Not To Hold" & "Don't Cry For Me Argentina")
09. La Isla Bonita
10. Who's That Girl // Medellín
11. Take A Bow
 
ACT 4: CHURCH
World On Fire (Wake Up Call) - Video Interlude (Contains elements from "American Life", "God Control", "Bedtime Story", "Die Another Day" & "Ghosttown")
12. Like A Prayer (Contains elements from "Act Of Contrition" & "The Beast Within")
13. Frozen (Contains elements from the Sickick Remix)
14. Live To Tell
15. Papa Don't Preach
16. Ray Of Light (Contains elements from "Impressive Instant" & "Beautiful Stranger")
 
ACT 5: NEW YORK CITY
Taxi - Video Interlude (Contains elements from "Causing A Commotion", "Where's The Party" & "Dress You Up")
17. Music
18. Burning Up / Bitch I'm Madonna
19. Borderline // Lucky Star 
20. Into The Groove
21. Hung Up (with "Hung Up On Tokischa" Intro)
 
ENCORE: GRAND FINALE
MLVC (Part II) - Video Interlude
22. Crazy For You (Contains an snippet from "Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye)
23. Holiday / Celebration (Contains excepts from "Get Together", "Give It 2 Me", "Girl Gone Wild", & "Everybody")
 
/=Medleys
//=Switch out songs

absolutely fantastic remix.

OK here's the 3rd version of it
MADONNA: The Celebration Tour 2023
Set List
ACT 1: MASQUERADE
MLVC - Video Introduction (Contains elements from "4 Minutes", "Hung Up", "Give Me All Your Luvin" & "Vogue")
01. Vogue (Contains elements from "I Don't Search, I Find", "Holy Water" & "Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)" by Beyoncé)
02. Material Girl (Contains excepts from "Material Gworrllllllll!")
03. Express Yourself / Open Your Heart
04. Everybody
 
ACT 2: EROTIC DUNGEON
Rules Of Attraction - Video Interlude (Contains elements from "Physical Attraction", "Heartbeat", "Forbidden Love (2005)", "Best Night", "Crazy" & "I Want You")
05. Like A Virgin (Contains excepts from "Erotica" & "Unholy" by Sam Smith)
06. Justify My Love (Rock Version) (Contains elements from "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin)
07. Human Nature (Contains excepts from "Don't Tell Me")
08. Deeper And Deeper (Contains elements from "Rescue Me", "Living For Love", "Up Down Suite" & "Show Me Love" by Robin S)
 
ACT 3: IBERIAN SUNSET
Latin Medley - Dance Interlude (Contains elements from "You'll See", "Pray For Spanish Eyes", "To Have And Not To Hold" & "Don't Cry For Me Argentina")
09. La Isla Bonita
10. Who's That Girl // Medellín
11. Take A Bow
 
ACT 4: CHURCH
World On Fire (Wake Up Call) - Video Interlude (Contains elements from "American Life", "God Control", "Bedtime Story", "Die Another Day" & "Ghosttown")
12. Like A Prayer (Contains elements from "Act Of Contrition" & "The Beast Within")
13. Frozen (Contains elements from the Sickick Remix)
14. Live To Tell
15. Papa Don't Preach
16. Ray Of Light (Contains elements from "Impressive Instant" & "Beautiful Stranger")
 
ACT 5: NEW YORK CITY
Taxi - Video Interlude (Contains elements from "Causing A Commotion", "Where's The Party" & "Dress You Up")
17. Music
18. Burning Up / Bitch I'm Madonna
19. Borderline // Lucky Star 
20. Into The Groove
21. Hung Up (with "Hung Up On Tokischa" Intro)
 
ENCORE: GRAND FINALE
MLVC (Part II) - Video Interlude
22. Crazy For You (Contains an snippet from "Sexual Healing" by Marvin Gaye)
23. Holiday / Celebration (Contains excepts from "Get Together", "Give It 2 Me", "Girl Gone Wild", & "Everybody")
 
/=Medleys
//=Switch out songs

MADONNA - The Celebration Tour (MLVC Tour) V2
My second attempt at the set list 
ACT 1: NEW YORK CITY // DANCETEIRA
RETROSPECTIVE PT.1 (Video Interlude)
01. Everybody
02. Burning Up // Lucky Star 
03. Express Yourself // Open Your Heart 
04. Into the Groove Medley (contains excerpts from "Causing a Commotion")
 
ACT 2: THE EROTIC LOUNGE 
Justify My Love (Video Interlude)(contains elements from "Erotica" and "Physical Attraction")
05. Like a Virgin 
06. Erotica
07. Human Nature 
08. Deeper and Deeper // Crave (Tracy Young's Dangerous Mix)
09. Living for Love (outro contains lines from "Rescue Me")
 
ACT 3: LATIN AFTER HOURS 
Evita Medley (Band Interlude)(contains elements from "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" and "You Must Love Me") 
10. La Isla Bonita
11. MedellÍn // Who's That Girl   
12. Request Song
13. Hung Up (Perform as "Hung Up on Tokischa")
 
ACT 4: SACRILEGE / CHRUCH 
WORLD ON FIRE (WAKE UP)[Video Interlude](contains samples from "God Control", "4 Minutes", "Bedtime Story", "American Life", "I Rise")
14. Frozen (contains elements from the "Sickick Remix")
15. Live to Tell
16. Papa Don't Preach // Oh Father // Ray of Light (Torch Ver.)
17. Like a Prayer 
 
ACT 5: THE MASQUERADE BALL / BALLROOM SCENE
I Don't Search, I Find (Video Interlude)(contains elements from the "Honey Dijon Remix")
18. Vogue (contains samples from "Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)" by Beyoncé)
19. Material Girl (contains samples from "MATERIAL GWORLLLLLLLL!")
20. Bitch, I'm Madonna // Give It 2 Me Medley (contains excerpts from "Girl Gone Wild")
21. Music 
 
ENCORE: I FOUND LOVE
RETROSPECTIVE PT.2 (Video Interlude)
22. Holiday / Celebration (Mashup)(contains sample from "Get Together" and reprise from "Everybody")
 
 
//: switch out songs

You’ve got to be careful though. For my first Madame X show I arrived late thinking she’d be on at her usual 10.30pm start time. By the time I got there the show had already started and she was half way through Dark Ballet.

Personally I wouldn't mind if Madonna took longer than she should to start the show. On the contrary, I would take it as an anecdote. What I want to say is that the delay would make my expectation to see her increase more and more and in case I started to feel invaded by boredom, I would start talking to the people around me and share our experiences as Madonna fans. In the end, it's all about taking a positive attitude and not forgetting that we are not going to the concert of any artist with an expiration date in 10 years, we are actually going to the concert of the Greatest Artist of all Time and that is more than enough to justify possible delays.

Was this user complaining? No, they were asking a question. Please try to be nicer.

For MDNA, she came on just short of 10:50 or so in Detroit. Rebel Heart in Detroit was more like 9:15, and in Louisville was more like 11:15. 11:15ish both times I saw Madame X.
It really just depends, but I'd ensure you're there by ticket time regardless.

We won't know until the tour starts but keeping an eye out on reports from the first shows will give some indication of how it's going to go.
And no, it's not a crazy question as every tour there are inevitably a bunch of casuals around me who are actually shocked at how late it ends up being and ask for and do get refunds, so for the actual general public, she does need to get her act together.  The GP isn't "overlooking and accepting" her lateness so much as they probably just have no clue if they don't read Ticketmaster reviews and haven't been to her shows in years.  It's good to be prepared.

My second attempt at it 
MADONNA: The Celebration Tour 2023 (V2)
Set List
ACT 1: NEW YORK CITY
MLVC - Video Introduction (Contains elements from "4 Minutes", "Give Me All Your Luvin", "Vogue" & "Hung Up On Tokischa")
01. Hung Up
02. Everybody
03. Burning Up / Bitch I'm Madonna
04. Lucky Star
05. Into The Groove (Contains elements from "Causing A Commotion", "Where's The Party" & "Dress You Up")
 
ACT 2: BORDELLO
Justify My Love - Video Interlude (Contains elements from "Waiting")
06. Like A Virgin
07. Physical Attraction / Erotica
08. Candy Shop (Contains elements from "Give It 2 Me" & "Back That Up To The Beat")
09. Human Nature
10. Deeper And Deeper / Living For Love / Rescue Me (Contains elements from "Show Me Love" by Robin S)
 
ACT 3: IBERIAN SUNSET
You Must Love Me - Dance Interlude
11. La Isla Bonita
12. Surprise Song or Audience Request
13. Take A Bow
 
ACT 4: CHURCH
World On Fire - Video Interlude (Contains excepts from "American Life", "4 Minutes", "God Control", "Die Another Day", "Bedtime Story", "I Rise" & "Future")
14. Frozen (Contains elements from the Sickick Remix)
15. Live To Tell
16. Papa Don't Preach
17. Like A Prayer (Contains elements from "Act Of Contrition" & "The Beast Within")
18. Ray Of Light 
 
ACT 5: MASQUERADE 
I Don't Search I Find (Honey Dijon Remix) - Video Interlude (Contains elements from "Holy Water" & "Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)" by Beyoncé)
19. Vogue
20. Material Girl (Contains excepts from "Material Gworrllllllll!")
21. Express Yourself / Open Your Heart
22. Borderline
23. Music (with "Vogue" reprise)
 
ENCORE
MLVC (Part 2) - Video Interlude
24. Crazy For You
25. Holiday / Celebration (with "Everybody" reprise)

Fantastic new article from Matthew Rettenmund
On January 17, Madonna announced her first retrospective hits tour, with the first tickets going on sale a whole three hours later. “Take my money!” gays often say when their divas pull up with fresh product. But nobody is happier to take it than Madonna, our favorite ‘80s capitalist turned ‘90s kabbalist turned ’20s TikTokateur.
For many Madonna fans — we were stans before stans were stans — confirmation of The Celebration Tour represents a long-awaited movement from Madonna toward unapologetically embracing her feel-good musical legacy. It’s a huge change for an artist whose concessions on the dance floor have been many, but whose approach to touring has been to focus on what’s new and to dole out what’s the opposite of new judiciously, even stingily. Sometimes with unexpected bagpipes and guitar riffs.
On her Madame X Tour in 2019, she told one audience her manager wanted her to do more hits, saying this as if he’d suggested she take Guy Ritchie back. But while icy in her convictions, Madonna is a sucker for timing, and in the 40th year since the release of her self-titled debut album, a victory lap must have struck her as not just potentially lucrative, but an organically good idea.
Is she ready to be a legacy act? The phrase is dismissive, yet their supremacy in arenas means legacy acts are nothing if not relevant, even if they are not driving the culture forward.
While ready to acknowledge her legacy, Madonna is still always in that pop cultural driver’s seat, and no, you can’t take away her license, kids. Her notoriety is evergreen, fueled by her brilliant grasp on how to trigger the world and her disdain for convention. In her tour announcement video — a black-and-white homage to “Truth or Dare” — when participant Eric Andre deems the proceedings “sad and gross,” Madonna cheerfully replies, “Sad and gross is very popular right now.” She couldn’t have come up with a better explanation for how social media works, or a more apt updating of the old adage, “No publicity is bad publicity.”
Unlike with other artists, Madonna singing her back catalog is not selling out. Her songs, with very few exceptions, are not guilty pleasures; they’re classics that defined (and defied) multiple eras and genres.
Madonna’s diehards know what we were doing when she behaved un-“Like a Virgin” on MTV; when she warbled about being great with child on “Papa Don’t Preach,” giving Tipper Gore hysterical morning sickness; when “Like a Prayer” first blessed the radio; when she rapped (it is a rap) all our favorite movie stars on “Vogue”; when she stepped out onto that balcony to command “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina”; when she let loose with that primal scream in “Ray of Light”; when she stalked her catwalk, a Leo in a leotard, to “Hung Up”; and even when she went upside down during “Human Nature” on her Madame X Tour, making it harder to hang your shit on her.
There are examples of divas before Madonna who seemed aware of their LGBTQ+ audience, but Madonna was the first in the trenches with us. Contrary to popular belief, queering her work did not usurp anything. Had she winked at us at arm’s length, as many gay-household-name divas have since, her already incredible career would have been all the more monumental. She lost countless fans when she began openly inviting speculation about her sexual orientation over 30 years ago, culminating with her book “Sex.” She not only ate with that, she ate ass with that.
Last year, Madonna took part in a silly TikTok video in which she tossed her panties at a wastebasket. The “if I miss, I’m gay” challenge ended with Madonna missing and shrugging — and with everyone missing the point. She wasn’t coming out as gay, she was saying, “Think what you want.”
If Madonna’s gay antics feel tired, instead of dragging her, thank her for that— her goal from the beginning has been to inform the world, often by tweaking its inhabitants with cheeky scandals, that being gay should be a non-issue.
“I don’t think it’s relevant,” she said in a 1992 interview of gay rumors about herself. “If people say, ‘Oh, she sleeps with women,’ I don’t bother to deny it because I don’t think it matters. Who cares?”
Now, unfortunately, some in the LGBTQ+ community are saying, “Who cares?” to Madonna, taking her for granted and even at times trying to erase or demonize her past efforts. This is largely because the culture has become so permissive that concerns about appropriation have taken over, a fight that could distract us from keeping an eye on why drag is suddenly casually being likened to grooming children for sex. And it’s a shame Madonna is so frequently rejected, because the path she forged in the very middle of the mainstream helped allow us to be in a place where she could be seen as old hat.
Probably “old” is the operative word there. Madonna, always the kind of girl unembarrassed to say she deserved that “Evita” Oscar (she did) and and to call herself a revolutionary (she is) and to sing “You’re just jealous ‘cause you can’t be me” (you are), got away with being aggressively user-unfriendly for over 30 years because she was young, and then looked young. Now that she is older, her sass is less tolerable to a society conditioned to value youth over most things and convention over all. Especially from women. And especially from women past 60.
Maybe that is why Madonna still matters so much to so many. Yes, she is a legacy artist —and what a legacy! What she has accomplished can not be taken away, cannot be diminished by others or herself, and will never be eclipsed by new artists thanks to her talent and timing. 
But legacy artist or not, she continues to be more of a touchstone than ever by forcing us to confront the fact that aging gracefully is probably a bullshit, paternal, corporate construct, and really isn’t very fun. And while it is OK for some artists to go all gray and demure, it should be equally OK, even encouraged, when Madonna vamps like Mae West (another maligned sex bomb with a killer body of work) or swears like a sailor, French kisses Jack Black (as she did in her tour announcement video) or forgets to wear anything but a gap-toothed grin.
I would never argue that Madonna is above criticism. She has said and done dumb things — nobody scrutinized for 40 years, let alone an artist committed to chaos agency, fails to fuck up. 
Still, I think queer people who aren’t under Madonna’s spell should always remember two equally important things: You absolutely don’t have to be a fan, and you absolutely don’t have to be a hater.
God help me for writing it, but Madonna is a metaphorical load-bearing wall for more people than you know. When you tear her down, we feel it. We know she is not perfect, but she gives us strength, and if we react viscerally to your demolition efforts, it’s because we know there are cracks in the wall, but we’re so very tired of waking up to the wrecking ball every day.
In response to Madonna’s The Celebration Tour confirmation, @heyjaeee wrote on Twitter, “I might actually cry seeing Madonna live and sharing the space with older gay men who grew up with her and who also lived through the AIDS crisis and are still here.”
This tweet touched me, even if the “older gay men” part had me contemplating a lower blepharoplasty. Because Madonna was there, and because she made the most of her time there, and because she shows every sign of trying to keep doing so until someone is rolling around on her grave like she did on her mom’s in “Truth or Dare,” the truth is that Madonna, like all icons, means a lot to so many of us, sometimes for reasons beyond her own doing, sometimes for reasons even she dares not guess.
And when someone gives you joy and strength and inspiration, let alone for 40 years, that is always worth celebrating.
https://pridesource.com/article/the-queer-lives-she-has-changed-why-madonna-still-matters-to-lgbtq-people/?fbclid=IwAR0an2aevYZ-kIe641brp2F_JrM1Cm6603MxpsbVzOxHhYYHmRBTWlJ4TtY