The Rebel Heart Tour Press Reports & Reviews [North America]

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Not really because Madonna didn't peak until 1989-1993 in my eyes and secondly Thriller was the peak of MJ'S career and it doesn't mean that everything he did after Thriller wasn't relevant.

She didn't have a peak, she has a one of a kind career (as evidenced by the fact that she can get away with omitting a substantial part of her big hits from her set lists) this is why i'm surprised by it. Seems like she made the right decision by picking so many very early hits though. 

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Review: "The #RebelHeartTour proves @Madonna to be a great vocalist

http://www.inquisitr.com/2414028/rebel-heart-tour-proves-madonna-to-be-great-vocalist-sorry-janet-jackson-and-britney-spears/#utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+google%2FyDYq+%28The+Inquisitr+-+News%29

Janet Jackson, Madonna, and Britney Spears have historically been grouped together by fans and critics as outstanding performers whose voices don’t live up to their dancing capabilities. All three have produced many hits and jaw-stopping videos. However, out of the three, Madonna is the only one who can also thrill audiences with her voice.

 

Madonna’s critics have denied the pop artist’s vocal strength for decades, even after she won a Golden Globe for her performance in Evita in 1996. Back then, Madonna shocked listeners with how much her singing voice had improved. While she didn’t have the operatic voice that Patty Lupone brought to the Broadway version, she completely extended herself and many thought Madonna’s voice was virtually unrecognizable (in a good way).

 

The recognition was soon forgotten, as the “Madonna can’t sing†meme appeared again in the early 2000s and has lasted ever since. However, after premiering her Rebel Heart Tour in Montreal, those spreading the meme may want to listen again. Take a look at Madonna’s performance of “La Vie En Rose†from September 9 in Montreal.

 

The Montreal Gazette said the performance was one of the highlights of the show.

“La Vie en rose was another big small moment, prefaced by a speech about believing in love despite being ‘devastated, smashed to bits’ that may become rote in a few weeks but sounded fresh on Wednesday.â€

The newspaper said the performance was stronger for being vulnerable and received a standing ovation from the French crowd. Madonna’s performance of “True Blue†was another vocal highlight of the evening.

 

The New York Daily News also gave the Rebel Heart Tour a great review. Critic Jim Farber says that the concert shows Madonna to be happy, at last.

“This time, she seemed to having a blast. It made for an infectious night that brought the Canadian crowd to a series of spontaneous, and escalating, standing ovations.â€

 

PopCrush also really loved the Rebel Heart Tour.

“The Rebel Heart Tour is Madonna’s first outing since 2012′s MDNA Tour and, as with every Madonna production, the concert is a massive all-out explosion of song, dance and depravity with vague social commentary, proving for the umpteenth time that Madonna is, was and truly always will be the Queen.â€

 

Madonna will likely, inevitably slow down as she ages. But, unlike many of her peers, Madonna has vocal talent to back herself up so she can still thrill her audiences even if she just sits down for the whole show. Did you see the Rebel Heart Tour? Give us your review in the comments section.

[Breathless 5,286]

I'm so happy she's getting great reviews! I'm going to bawl when she sings La Vie En Rose, I know it Can't believe I have to wait another 6 months!! Well, at least it's not over for me

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Review: Madonna Shows Why She’s Queen At DC ‘Rebel Heart’ Show

http://thedailytwist.com/2015/09/review-madonna-shows-why-shes-queen-at-dc-rebel-heart-show/

 

“Bitch, I’m Madonna!â€

 

That is a prominent phrase in the latest spectacle produced by non-other than the queen of pop, Madonna. The 57 year-old veteran proved her status on top of the throne as she performed an oldie-heavy set as part of her Rebel Heart Tour in Washington, D.C. on Saturday night.

 

Impressive costumes, controversial themes, and intense choreography orchestrated the 13th world tour by the Michigan-native. While her new material delivered impeccable performances such as the Matador-inspired, Grammy show version performance of “Living For Love†and the Last Supper portrayal of “Devil Pray,†it was great reinventions (something she really knows how to do best) of some old hits that truly displayed her stage presence as the best female entertainer the world has ever seen.

 

A medley of songs in a way of Spanish acoustics consisting of “Dress You Up,†“Into The Groove,†“Everybody,†and “Lucky Star,†had followed up a nice rendition of “La Isla Bonita.†This became a highlight of the show, which had everyone on their feet. “Like A Virgin†had Madonna on center stage, all alone, just dancing like nobody’s watching – giving that ‘good feeling’ vibe to the concert.

 

Another intense moment occurred when Madonna got on a pole, which was essentially a cross, and stood on a half-naked nun while slowing down perhaps her biggest hit, “Vogue.†But that wasn’t the only jaw-dropping moment, as during one of her songs a male dancer dressed like a preacher opens the singer’s legs simulating oral sex and she says “Yeezus loves my pussy best.â€

 

Provocative? No doubt. In fact, that’s what Madonna said was the reason why President Barack Obama may have not attended her show in the nation’s capital. “I invited him,†she said. Soon after that, she dedicated a beautiful version of “La Vie En Rose†to him – which showcased one of the talents she doesn’t get enough credit for, her good vocals.

Having little to prove, Madonna keeps surpassing the only thing she worries about now … herself. As long as she keeps outdoing her past works, she will keep doing it. And as long as she keeps selling out arenas all over the world, she will keep touring.

 

“Thank-you for following me for three decades,†she mentioned before singing her fan-dedicated song ‘Rebel Heart.’ “Thanks to you my kids go to good schools.â€

 

Closing up the show, Madonna used a Gatsby-like setting for the ‘party’ segment. Here she performed “Material Girl,†“Music,†and “Candy Shop.â€

 

As an encore and with her full team of dancers, Madonna emerged all dressed up in red, white, and blue in honor of the United States to a happy “Holiday†which created a concert-experience like no other.

 

Noted, Madonna seems to be less about staying focused and more about having a good time on stage compared to her past world treks. This time she’s enjoying herself more, dancing more, and being a true rebel.

 

With that, it’s a guarantee that nobody puts on a show like Madonna. And yes bitch, she’s Madonna.

[stefo 6,381]

Yes she's definitely getting her goal and I'm starting to love the show more and more!! 

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"Bitch I'm Madonna"

Photos of "Rebel Heart Tour" Madonna

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Madonna in DC: Maybe Obama thinks I'm too 'provocative'

http://entertainthis.usatoday.com/2015/09/13/madonna-in-dc-maybe-obama-thinks-im-too-provocative/

 

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Madonna brings A-game again

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/09/14/madonna-brings-a-game-again-on-rebel-heart-tour/

Madonna at the Verizon Center Saturday night. (Washington Blade photo by Joey DiGuglielmo) 

 

The first questions posed when the subject of a new Madonna tour comes up are typically what was the controversy, how dark was it and did she skimp on the hits?

 

I’m an odd duck among Madonna fans and always have been. The thing I’m most interested in is how were the arrangements? After years of toying with her live renditions, Madonna and her creative team are masters at tweaking her hits — usually by playing with percussion beds and chord progressions while keeping melodies and tempos (mostly) intact. Although rare, these experiments occasionally backfire (“Like a Wirgin†anyone?).

 

The incarnations this time out for the “Rebel Heart Tour,†which touched down in Washington Saturday night in a glitch-free performance (remarkable as it was only the third show of the tour), were as effectively fresh as any I’ve ever heard her use. Even more satisfying, though, was that this was applied to a bumper crop of second-tier hits she pulled out. It was actually nice, for a change, to get a reprieve from oft-performed stalwarts such as “Like a Prayer†and “Express Yourself†(or even the oddly perennial “Human Natureâ€) in favor of several she hasn’t sung live in decades. Having toured consistently her last five albums (in the new music paradigm, it’s where all the money is especially for veteran acts), she’s more inclined to plunge deeper for material. For the faithful — and this was no less a gay high holy day than it’s ever been — that was a real treat.

 

“Burning Up†was thrashy and spare; “True Blue†found Madonna plucking out the accompaniment on a ukelele (trust me, it worked); “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore†was woven in beautifully with “HeartBreakCity, a cut from the new album; “Deeper and Deeper†was thankfully rescued from the torchy makeover it had on the “Re-Invention Tour†to its original tempo; while a sparse “Like a Virgin,†performed sans dancers over a blisteringly syncopated beat, felt like it rocked the Verizon Center rafters. 

 

Although not averse to the occasional mash-up, Madonna has for years eschewed the hits medley approach. So it was a delightful surprise when what started out sounding like a Latin-infused (and slightly slower) rendition of “Dress You Up†turned out to be an ‘80s medley that seamlessly wove in “Into the Groove,†“Everybody†and “Lucky Star†before returning to “Dress.†Equally fun was the next song, an acoustic sing-along of “Who’s That Girl,†another early-career hit that’s been out of rotation too long. “La Isla Bonita,†“Material Girl†and encore “Holiday†were offered in more faithful renditions.

 

For reviving such relatively deep cuts, it never felt like Madonna was scraping. You might think, having toured so much in the last 14 years and being the kind of singer known for mixing things up from tour to tour (although almost never from night to night), her discography would start feeling a bit exhausted by now. That was not the case and it left her plenty of room for stuff from the new album with 12 “Rebel Heart†tracks represented in some capacity (a few were interludes). While not career-defining by any means, the new cuts meshed well with the classic material and the show was expertly paced. Oddly MIA were “Ghost Town†and “Joan of Arc.â€

 

“Holy Water,†with gyrating nuns, was naughty fun, much like “Body Shop.†The biggest showstopper came about half-way through with an expertly choreographed rendition of “Living for Love.†The dancers, sets, video screens, costumes, were all as top-level as we’ve come to expect from a Madonna tour. This is a woman who never coasts. Overall, this outing had a lighter, less gritty feel than the “MDNA Tour.†Both work — this was just more fun. She seemed to be having fun too. Perhaps it was because the tour is just starting, but she smiled more easily than any time I’ve ever seen her.

 

Only one moment felt slightly off — the oddly flat false exit at the end of “Unapologetic Bitch.†It was redeemed by “Holiday,†(itself a surprise as Madonna almost never gives an encore) but still felt abrupt and anti-climactic.

 

For me, the biggest surprise was how strong Madonna’s vocals were. For all her bluster, stamina and innovation, her vocals, pleasant enough, have never been the calling card. During several of the evening’s quieter moments, especially a late-in-the-show and out-of-nowhere cover of “La Vie en Rose,†you almost could imagine a whole evening of that working without all the sets and bombast. Her range, tone quality and interpretive abilities have improved with age. It was a nice surprise on a pitch-perfect evening. 

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On ‘Rebel Heart’ tour stop, Madonna doesn’t miss a beat

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/on-rebel-heart-tour-stop-madonna-doesnt-miss-a-beat/2015/09/13/e0228b9a-5a59-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html

By Chris Kelly September 13

A Madonna concert in 2015 raises a host of questions: Is new album “Rebel Heart†any good? Amid the Beyonces, Taylors, Mileys and Gagas, where is Madonna’s place in pop music? After three decades in the spotlight, does Madonna still have it?

The moment Madonna’s show started Saturday night at Verizon Center, those questions and more went out the window, a defenestration the Catholicism-obsessed queen of pop would appreciate. Surrounded by a phalanx of centurions (her dancers in their first get-up) and backed by a full band and three monstrous screens, Madonna descended from above in a cage and sang the first of the night’s many self-affirming songs, “Iconic.†“I’m starting a revolution,†she told the crowd. “Are you with me?â€

For the capacity crowd, the answer was a resounding yes, even if the question is a bit dubious. Although “Rebel Heart†grabs at current pop sounds with both hands — a Diplo beat here, a Nicki Minaj verse there — the album feels anything but revolutionary. That didn’t seem to matter for her fans, the ones who grew up on her ’80s and ’90s hits, the ones dressed as bulls and matadors or “Like a Virgins†and “Material Girls.†Madonna has no illusions about the age of her audience, teasing an eager fan, “I remember you, baby — you’ve been following me around for three decades.â€

 

The concert seemed crafted to blow away those fans, ones who have seen her dazzling live shows before. Her latest show is an astonishing spectacle that draws from Cirque du Soleil, “300,†the Chinese New Year, “Grease†and — as always — Catholic imagery. After all these years, religion remains Madonna’s hottest button, and she continues to find new ways to make blasphemy sexy. Re-creating the Last Supper as a bacchanalia? Dancers clad in lingerie and nuns’ habits, using crucifixes to pole dance? It may be harder to shock and titillate in 2015, but that hasn’t stopped Madonna from trying.

 

“Rebel Heart†dominated the set list, but Madonna wasn’t afraid to try new things with old favorites. “Into the Groove†and “Lucky Star†were recast as Latin pop in a medley of catalogue classics, and she strapped on a Flying V guitar for “Burning Up†and traded it in for a ukulele for “True Blue†and a cover of Edith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose.†The latter she dedicated to President Obama, whom she said didn’t accept her invitation: “Maybe I’m too provocative.â€

 

After her latest of countless reinventions, Madonna is as provocative as ever. But she’s also reflective, using her concert not just to celebrate “Rebel Heart†Madonna but also all of her incarnations — so many that she’s started to lose track. “I don’t really know who I am,†she confessed near the end of the show. “But bitch, I’m Madonna.â€

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Madonna, she's not just a plain old pop star, she's a legendary artist

http://brightestyoungthings.com/articles/live-dc-madonna-verizon-center.htm

One of the greatest abuses in pop music is the misuse of the word “artist†as it applies to entertainers. When pop singer Britney Spears emerged from the darkest parts of her personal meltdown in 2007, she did so with a videos for her singles “Gimmie More†and “Piece of Me.†Despite being two of the most expensive productions in her career, both videos largely centered on a seemingly incoherent Spears stumbling around the small stage of a closed set. She herself was out of control, but still being prodded around by handlers despite the objections of her family. The episode revealed that  – no matter how wonderfully entertaining she is – Spears is not an artist who reflects and challenges the culture around her, but a product whose entire career has been created, written, produced, shaped, and managed by RCA Records.

 

That same year, Madonna entered into a $120 million 10-year contract in 2007 with Live Nation to promote her concert tours, studio albums, and merchandise. At the time, it was a high-risk investment for Live Nation but a guaranteed win for Madonna, who retained creative control (and most of the profit) of her art and her products. Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour â€“ the last tour under her current contract with Live Nation – played the Verizon Center on Saturday evening. The two-hour show perfectly showcased how the best selling female singer of all time remains not just a great and iconic entertainer, but a relevant artist.

The Rebel Heart Tour is not a greatest hits tour. As with her most-recent MDNA (2012) and Sticky & Sweet (2008) tours, the show centered on promoting her current album (Rebel Heart). While including many of her past hits, the Verizon Center show demonstrated Madonna’s capacity to continue to grow and express herself as an artist 30 years after her first national tour.

 

On Saturday, Madonna proved that she can even be relevant when she’s not even trying. Opening the show with the song “Iconic,†Madonna descended onto stage in a cage that opened to free the singer to walk down a staircase and into a crowd of dancers waiving crosses. Although the choreography was planned months in advance, it deliciously mirrored the jail-exit rally of anti-gay Kentucky clerk Kim Davis earlier in the week.

 

A Rebel Heart Tour rehearsal teaser video showing Madonna’s Kim Davis-esqe concert entrance. Although the choreography was planned months in advance, Madonna’s emergence from a caged cell to an enthusiastic throng of dancers waving crosses proved she can be culturally relevant without trying.

 

The Rebel Heart Tour feels personal despite being a large production. It previous interviews, Madonna has stated her intent to work with her production team to develop a concert which honors her past hits while she continues to move forward artistically. One of the most effective ways she did this on Saturday night was by teasing out the flamenco-inspired melodies of “La Isla Bonita†to flavor a long acoustic medley of “Dress You Upâ€/â€Into the Grooveâ€/â€Everybodyâ€/â€Lucky Star†and continuing that acoustic aesthetic over a full performance of “Who’s That Girl.†While concert medleys of hits often fail to satisfy the audience, the crowd at the Verizon Center was clearly enraptured by the intimate set. Despite a career of being known as over-the-top, Madonna took a risk in placing the pinnacle of her concert on this low-key, low-energy set. It worked.

The entire Rebel Heart Tour show seemed tamer than previous tours. Being Madonna, there was plenty of religious iconography and sexuality. But, to her great artistic credit, they weren’t relied on as tropes. “I don’t think I created a particularly provocative show,†Madonna remarked midway through her performance. “Well, except for the nuns on stripper poles.†She was right (and the stripper poles were shaped as crucifixes). While the show itself was a visual spectacle of dancers, videos, and costumes, it still allowed plenty of room to focus of the concert on Madonna’s strong vocals.

 

It’s almost cliche to call Madonna an inspiration, but she is. Her career gave templates to virtually every female pop singer on the charts today. Her 1991 Truth or Dare documentary is credited for sparking reality television, and the personal fashion style of her early career defined the look of the 1980’s. As she enters the fourth decade of her commercial career, Madonna continues to inspire by demonstrating how an artist can continue to grow and express themselves well-after their success has been solidified. Madonna could have cashed in with a series of “Best of†tours years ago. Instead, with the Rebel Heart Tour, she continues to challenge herself and her artistic expression. After decades of pushing the envelope, Madonna’s greatest strength remains in how she continues to push herself.

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LIVE DC: MADONNA @ VERIZON CENTER

Madonna, she's not just a plain old pop star, she's a legendary artist

http://brightestyoungthings.com/articles/live-dc-madonna-verizon-center.htm

One of the greatest abuses in pop music is the misuse of the word “artist†as it applies to entertainers. When pop singer Britney Spears emerged from the darkest parts of her personal meltdown in 2007, she did so with a videos for her singles “Gimmie More†and “Piece of Me.†Despite being two of the most expensive productions in her career, both videos largely centered on a seemingly incoherent Spears stumbling around the small stage of a closed set. She herself was out of control, but still being prodded around by handlers despite the objections of her family. The episode revealed that  – no matter how wonderfully entertaining she is – Spears is not an artist who reflects and challenges the culture around her, but a product whose entire career has been created, written, produced, shaped, and managed by RCA Records.

 

That same year, Madonna entered into a $120 million 10-year contract in 2007 with Live Nation to promote her concert tours, studio albums, and merchandise. At the time, it was a high-risk investment for Live Nation but a guaranteed win for Madonna, who retained creative control (and most of the profit) of her art and her products. Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour â€“ the last tour under her current contract with Live Nation – played the Verizon Center on Saturday evening. The two-hour show perfectly showcased how the best selling female singer of all time remains not just a great and iconic entertainer, but a relevant artist.

The Rebel Heart Tour is not a greatest hits tour. As with her most-recent MDNA (2012) and Sticky & Sweet (2008) tours, the show centered on promoting her current album (Rebel Heart). While including many of her past hits, the Verizon Center show demonstrated Madonna’s capacity to continue to grow and express herself as an artist 30 years after her first national tour.

 

On Saturday, Madonna proved that she can even be relevant when she’s not even trying. Opening the show with the song “Iconic,†Madonna descended onto stage in a cage that opened to free the singer to walk down a staircase and into a crowd of dancers waiving crosses. Although the choreography was planned months in advance, it deliciously mirrored the jail-exit rally of anti-gay Kentucky clerk Kim Davis earlier in the week.

 

A Rebel Heart Tour rehearsal teaser video showing Madonna’s Kim Davis-esqe concert entrance. Although the choreography was planned months in advance, Madonna’s emergence from a caged cell to an enthusiastic throng of dancers waving crosses proved she can be culturally relevant without trying.

 

The Rebel Heart Tour feels personal despite being a large production. It previous interviews, Madonna has stated her intent to work with her production team to develop a concert which honors her past hits while she continues to move forward artistically. One of the most effective ways she did this on Saturday night was by teasing out the flamenco-inspired melodies of “La Isla Bonita†to flavor a long acoustic medley of “Dress You Upâ€/â€Into the Grooveâ€/â€Everybodyâ€/â€Lucky Star†and continuing that acoustic aesthetic over a full performance of “Who’s That Girl.†While concert medleys of hits often fail to satisfy the audience, the crowd at the Verizon Center was clearly enraptured by the intimate set. Despite a career of being known as over-the-top, Madonna took a risk in placing the pinnacle of her concert on this low-key, low-energy set. It worked.

The entire Rebel Heart Tour show seemed tamer than previous tours. Being Madonna, there was plenty of religious iconography and sexuality. But, to her great artistic credit, they weren’t relied on as tropes. “I don’t think I created a particularly provocative show,†Madonna remarked midway through her performance. “Well, except for the nuns on stripper poles.†She was right (and the stripper poles were shaped as crucifixes). While the show itself was a visual spectacle of dancers, videos, and costumes, it still allowed plenty of room to focus of the concert on Madonna’s strong vocals.

 

It’s almost cliche to call Madonna an inspiration, but she is. Her career gave templates to virtually every female pop singer on the charts today. Her 1991 Truth or Dare documentary is credited for sparking reality television, and the personal fashion style of her early career defined the look of the 1980’s. As she enters the fourth decade of her commercial career, Madonna continues to inspire by demonstrating how an artist can continue to grow and express themselves well-after their success has been solidified. Madonna could have cashed in with a series of “Best of†tours years ago. Instead, with the Rebel Heart Tour, she continues to challenge herself and her artistic expression. After decades of pushing the envelope, Madonna’s greatest strength remains in how she continues to push herself.

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why did she quote spears in that reductive way???? stupid journalist -.-

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I'm loving all of this, AAAALL of this.

She's worthy of it and -yes- it was  time for her to find a new effective way to create and perform live.

It's got to be a little improved maybe, a little more of braveness in orchestrations and theatrical ideas for me,

but it's already such a good damn show! 

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Review: Opening Night of Madonna’s “Rebel Heart Tourâ€

EMILIE DOUCET @

09/10/2015

Madonna performed the opening night of her Rebel Heart tour in Montreal last night. It was a night filled with spectacular visuals, original and expertly performed choreography and most importantly, the Material Girl herself who proved why she is considered a living legend.

 

Overall: It was everything I would expect from a Madonna concert. The show is an incredibly high-quality production, with sensational dancers, a beautiful stage and impressive visual effects. Madonna herself is a world-class performer. Her level of energy is astounding, as she dances and throws herself around the stage with fervor and complete abandon. Whenever she was on stage, I couldn’t keep my eyes off of her.

 

While I got the high-energy Madonna show that I was expecting, I also saw a different side to her that is not often revealed in her music videos or her TV performances. While her usual performance style could be described as fierce, aggressive and hard-hitting, the show was filled with an uplifting sense of joy and fun. To my surprise, the “Living for Love†singer played the guitar and the ukulele multiple times throughout the show, providing some raw, understated moments to the night.

 

Madonna herself performed amazingly, but the set list was unfortunately not as strong, with many songs missing from the nearly 2-hour set. The show is highly entertaining nonetheless, and proved that even 30 years into her career, Madonna can still outperform the best of them.

 

Highlights: Following an epic opening video featuring none other than Mike Tyson, Madonna descended from the sky in a steel cage and started strong with Asian-themed performances of « Iconic » (a fitting reminder to the audience that they were now in the presence of a true music icon) and « Bitch I’m Madonna » , complete with dancing samurais and geishas. Madonna then went back to her cross-burning roots with her provocative performance of Holy Water. In classic Madonna-style, she went heavy on the religious imagery, with priests, pole-dancing nuns, and a reenactment of The Last Supper. It was an epic performance that uplifted a usually mediocre song.

 

True Blue, a definite crowd favorite, was another highlight of the show. After playing 6 Rebel Heart songs in a row, the (mostly older) crowd was happy to hear a more familiar tune. She played the ukulele as she crooned the old-school track in one of the more stripped-down parts of the show that was simple and beautiful.

 

One of the most riveting parts of the show was her performance of Heartbreak City, in which she and a male dancer played embattled lovers, involved in an intimate struggle atop a staircase in the middle of the room, ending with the dancer dramatically falling from the top of the staircase.

 

Another highlight: the superstar on stage alone, without dancers, singing a remixed version of Like a Virgin. No bells and whistles, just Madonna doing what she does best : dancing around with the energy of a 20 year old and completely owning the stage, without the help of dancers or props, just Madonna and her incredible stage presence.

 

The entire last act of the show was amazing, ending the night with a bang. Her performance of Rebel Heart was accompanied by a display of fan art on the screens, a nice tribute to the fans who have supported Madonna for years. The song was followed by a cabaret-inspired Music and a classic version of Material Girl, complete with dancers in tuxedos and Madonna in a flapper-style outfit.

 

While the high-energy choreography was amazing, some of the best parts of the show were the softer moments, like when she broke out the ukulele again to sing Edith Piaf’s “La Vie En Roseâ€, to the sheer delight of the crowd. Before starting the song, she shared a rare personal moment with the crowd, divulging that she has had her share of heartbeak and has been “devastated, smashed to bitsâ€. She sang the song beautifully and, to her surprise, was greeted with riotous applause from the audience.

 

Next, she sang Unapologetic Bitch and brought out Diplo (who opened the show). The DJ played along well, dancing, getting slapped on the ass by the Queen of Pop and even throwing down some Whip/Nae Nae action. At the end of the song, Madge handed Diplo a banana as a “prize†for coming up on stage. It was one of the more surreal moments of the show, and it distracted from the song itself, which is not one of the strongest on the album.

 

For the final song of the night, Holiday, Madonna donned a Canadian flag and performed a fun and celebratory number that got the crowd on their feet. It was a great ending to the show, that left everyone with a smile on their face.

 

Lowlights: There were not many. My biggest quarrell was her choice of songs. She leaned heavily on new material and neglected to sing some of her most well-known songs including Like a Prayer and Hung Up. Instead she included a couple of headscratchers like Hard Candy’s Candy Shop and one of the weaker Rebel Heart songs, Body Shop. Many longtime fans who came for the hits might be slightly disappointed with the show, as she focused mainly on new material, interspered with some of her earliest hits from the 80s. There was a definite lack of middleground, seemingly ignoring the last decade of her career.

 

If I’m really nitpicking, a couple of the songs, including Body Shop and Ghosttown were slightly forgettable. However, this is unavoidable in a show so jam-packed with songs.

 

Bottom line: These few songs were the exception in an extremely entertaining show, filled to the brim with showstopper, after showstopper. Madonna was the commanding force in the center of it all who never got lost in the razzle-dazzle of the high-price production. All in all it was an amazing night watching a legend do what she does best.

Are you going to see The Rebel Heart Tour?

 

 

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★★★★★ star review in the guardian 

 

Madonna at Madison Square Garden review – 'There is no other performer like her'  â˜…★★★★ star

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/17/madonna-at-madison-square-garden-review-rebel-heart-tour-no-other-performer-like-her

Madison Square Garden, New York
In the first of two Rebel Heart tour shows at the historic venue, the pop queen brings out Amy Schumer, Game of Thrones, transgender nuns, a ukulele … and her greatest hits

 

 

Madonna’s album Rebel Heart was bedevilled by leaks; she fell flat on her backside at the Brit awards; and her Instagram gaffes have made Jeremy Corbyn look like a Rupert Murdoch-style media mastermind. As she arrives in Madison Square Garden on the fourth date of her 10th tour – the last under her 10-year, $120m contract with Live Nation – she should be up against it. Yet Madonna is always at her best with her back to the wall, when the killer instinct that has sustained her through over 30 years in pop rears to the surface, a visceral refusal to be beaten.

 

Her choice of support act on this homecoming gig – since New York is the place she remade herself – is very Madonna, all wrong on paper but in practice, right on the money. Amy Schumer takes the stage in front of a massive backdrop of Madonna’s face staring at the heavens and clutching a sword to her breast, the massive machinery of pop music concealed behind it. Swigging from a bottle of champagne, and with nothing but a microphone and a stool, the comic of the moment says that she was asked: “‘Who better than you to open up for Madonna?’†“Uh,†she rhetorically answers. “Any band?â€

 

Yet Schumer’s perfect reading of the audience, in which straight men are such a minority as to be non-existent, (“It’s like taking a warm bath in a ton of dick that doesn’t want youâ€) weapons-grade filth (“We’re here to rethink cumâ€) and description of the Kardashians as a family who “take the faces they were born with as a light suggestion†reduce the crowd to marshmallow before Madonnahas even made an appearance.

 

Twenty-five years from her apotheosis, 1990’s Blond Ambition tour, Madonna’s vision of the pop concert – in which music is combined with dance, video and costume, in order to reconceptualise familiar hits into an overwhelming sensory bombardment – has now been copied by generations of pop stars. She’s also notorious for stuffing the setlist with new material, thwarting those who would love an oldies show. At first the signs aren’t promising: the show starts with film of Madonna writhing in a sequinned dress in a cage, while her voiceover chunters that creativity is being threatened by corporations (ironic, given that Madonna is a formidable corporation in her own right).

 

She then descends from the ceiling similarly banged up, while knights in armour march down the stage, which juts almost the length of the arena. It’s Madonna does Game of Thrones. The first song is Iconic, one of the dimmer bulbs from Rebel Heart, followed by Bitch I’m Madonna, a great title in search of a decent song. But when the dancers depart, and Madonna struts down the runway to strap on a flying V, the show has lift-off with Burning Up. One of her earliest records, it amounts to a manifesto (“I’ll do anything, I’m not the same, I have no shameâ€) and all these years later it still grabs you by the throat. Aged 57, Madonna is still palpably hungry, and her performance has an enduring rawness and truth. Unmediated and undiluted, she’s the ringmaster of her own circus, connecting with her hardcore in a totally instinctive way, regardless of the choreography, pyrotechnics and fancy costumes (created by a battery of top fashion designers – but really, who cares?).

 

Madonna’s striking ability to imbue songs that might seem throwaway with significance and depth is illustrated four songs in. On record, Holy Water is a mortifying extended metaphor for her, ahem, vaginal secretions. But on stage, it’s a Ken Russell fantasia in which a scene of transgender naughty nuns poledancing (including Madonna climbing some 12 feet into the air to stand on a revolving naked man, one of several moments which involve genuine physical peril) morphs into a genuinely unnerving demonic parody of the Last Supper in which Madonna ends up tied up on the table, legs akimbo.

 Madonna performs at Madison Square Garden in New York City on September 16, 2015. Photograph: Shaun Tandon/AFP/Getty Images

Two more album tracks follow – the dodgy Devil Pray and the lovely Messiah – before the show hits its second section, set in a 50s garage where Madonna and the dancers prance to Body Shop (another number DOA on record) before gathering on a pile of tyres for a ukulele singalong to True Blue. From then on, it’s clear that the Rebel Heart tour connects today’s Madonna with the energy and boldness of her early days – there’s precious little from the many eras in between. HeartBreakCity, performed atop a spiral staircase, morphs into her mid-80s, yearning cover of Rose Royce’s Love Don’t Live Here Anymore, before she tears into Like a Virgin, given a 21st-century update, but performed solo, with all the allure and aggression with which she infused it when it was first released.

The following section has a Mexican theme, Madonna in full Day of the Dead finery, and of course performing La Isla Bonita, the only song from her past she revisits on almost every tour, along with Dress You Up, Into the Groove and Who’s That Girl? – a song, she says, about “not knowing who the fuck you areâ€. It’s a moving affirmation of her ongoing, instinctive relationship with her Latino audience.

 

The title track of Rebel Heart is performed against a morphing backdrop of fan art depicting her many image changes, though the show actually reveals how consistent she has been underneath it all, endowed with an unswerving belief in the transformative power of pop. The final straight is pure pleasure, Madonna in a flapper’s outfit, performing a jazz-era take on Music (in visuals alone – musically it still packs the robotic punch that made it irresistible 15 years ago), then going into a showstopping Material Girl, performed on an upended video screen titled 45 degrees, in which Madonna pushes the top-hatted dancers down the slope, one by one, in a reboot of the famous video.

 Amy Schumer and Madonna together on stage Photograph: Splash News/Corbis

And then there’s a moment of intimacy, Madonna perching at the end of the circular hydraulic platform with her ukulele, announcing that she is going to perform one of her favourite songs. What ensues is an unaccompanied version of Edith Piaf’s La Vie En Rose, suddenly revealing that after all these years of being dismissed as a singer, Madonna has the pipes. Her rendition bites through the inherent campness of the concept to locate something unarguably moving. Finally, Madonna brings Schumer out again during Unapologetic Bitch, spanking her and then giving her a banana as a reward. Rising to the challenge, Schumer pretends to stick it up her backside, to the delight of the audience.

 

Holiday, performed with the stars and stripes rampant, is a victory lap. Madonna had said: “I’m feeling pretty nostalgic tonight … I performed here 30 years ago.†Her Madison Square Garden concert seems simultaneously like the latest stage of a 32-year durational performance art piece about stardom and an affirmation that there is simply no other performer like her. Tonight, Madonna kills it.

 

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Madonna Gets Surprisingly Nostalgic at First NYC Tour Stop, Then Kicks Amy Schumer's Ass  â˜…★★★

http://www.billboard.com/articles/review/6699797/madonna-rebel-heart-nyc-tour-amy-schumer-madison-square-garden

For an artist who rarely looks back creatively, Madonna was in a particularly wistful mood during her Madison Square Garden concert on Wednesday (Sept. 16) night, the first of three NYC dates on her Rebel Heart Tour.

 

"I'm feeling very nostalgic tonight," Madonna said (twice, actually). "I played Madison Square Garden 30 years ago. That's crazy." When she trailed off for a moment, you almost thought she was lost in sentimental reverie. But as always, Madonna was laser-focused on the present, even while reminiscing. "You were there?" she asked a fan in the front row who had been talking to her. "Then I gotta give you a kiss." For the record, a Madonna-on-fan kiss is a controlled affair: She kissed her fingers and touched the fan's forehead, like a messiah gracing her faithful follower with one touch.

 

Nostalgia aside, Madonna's restless creative spirit is on full display on the Rebel Heart Tour. Refusing to coast by playing faithful, familiar live renditions of her hits, Madge recast a number of her classics in different musical molds, with mostly positive results.

Strapping on a guitar, she skuzzed up "Burning Up" to hard rock heights and turned "True Blue" into a ukulele sing-along. For "Like a Virgin," she lost the original instrumentation, her backup dancers and most of her clothes while turning her breakthrough hit into a sparse, Pharrell-esque jam.

 

In a lengthy nod to her Spanish-speaking audience, Madonna delivered a Latin-tinged medley of "Dress You Up," "Into the Groove" and "Lucky Star." The maracas might have been a little much, but the crisp Spanish guitar successfully made the songs sound newly organic. And while there weren't as many French speakers in attendance at MSG, Madonna nodded to her Gallic fans with a surprisingly full-voiced version of Edith Piaf's "La Vie En Rose." 

 

Later in the show, Madonna began "Music" as a Jazz Age ballad before kicking the No. 1 hit into banger mode. The presence of "Music" was an effective reminder that while some compulsive naysayers tsk the Queen of Pop for trend chasing with Diplo, she brought techno to the pop mainstream years before EDM was a ubiquitous term.

 

As always, Madonna will never be everything to everyone. Some were undoubtedly let down to see her make it through the "Vogue" spoken word section during "Holy Water" without segueing into the full song -- and to see the lights come up without any "Like a Prayer."

 

But the classic tracks Madonna did pull out were judiciously selected, with attention paid to material rarely performed on her live tours. An acoustic "Who's That Girl?" (not seen on a Madonna tour in nearly 30 years), a pumping "Deeper and Deeper" (absent from her setlist for 11 years) and "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (which segued out of new song "HeartBreak City") were all resurrected to huge applause.

 

Speaking of resurrection, Catholic themes occupied a sizable portion of her stage show, as you would expect -- but always with the Ciccone wink. There was a bacchanalian Last Supper, nuns gyrating on stripper polls and famous faces from Renaissance religious paintings projected onscreen during the aforementioned "Vogue" roll call.

 

Aside from the stunning Minotaur-filled "Living for Love," the most effective new song in her Rebel Heart Tour arsenal was "Body Shop." While the song was light to the point of forgettable on the album, its low-key, affable sound worked to the choreography's advantage as Madonna teased and flirted her way through a stage filled with tires, muscle cars and muscle men.

 

"My grandma always said, 'If it's got tits or tires, it's going to give you trouble,'" Madonna said in a faux Southern accent after the song. "Sorry, I know I'm not as funny as Amy Schumer, but I'm trying."

 

Schumer, incidentally, killed her opening set (last night was her first of three opening slots for Madonna in NYC). Repeatedly mocking the flowering falsehood that it's a new Golden Era for women in Hollywood while still making jokes about the First Lady taking a hot load, Schumer's ability to pivot between the bawdy and the incisive proved the perfect fit for a Madonna opener.

 

"I thought I was gonna bomb so hard for months," Schumer said when her set was over. "This is the best feeling ever."

That feeling might've been one-upped (or quashed?) later on in the evening when Madonna brought Amy out during "Unapologetic Bitch," bent her over and literally kicked her ass (in addition to pretending to penetrate it). Schumer was ecstatic and surprisingly rhythmic while dancing with Madonna onstage, but the Queen couldn't let her go without some hazing.

 

Before Schumer left the stage, Madonna put a sock puppet on Amy's hand and made it tell her, "Hi Amy -- I'm a sock, bitch!" Waiting a few beats for an actual joke to follow, Schumer exploded into confused laughter when it became clear that was pretty much all Madge had to offer with the skit. Madonna might be good at changing creative lanes, but her attempt at improv was like switching lanes by means of rolling out of a moving car.

 

When the show came to a triumphant close with "Holiday," New York's favorite adopted daughter marched around in an American flag cape while her dancers -- dressed for a Gatsby-style rager at this point -- paraded about with jubilant relief. It was clear they felt the rush of owning Madison Square Garden and relished it. Madonna, on the other hand, kept her composure. Clearly, failure to dominate MSG on Wednesday night was never an option for her -- just like failure to dominate New York City was never an option for Madonna more than 30 years ago.

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Amy Schumer brings laughs to Madonna's 'Rebel Heart' tour [great show review]

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/amy-schumer-brings-laughs-to-madonna-s-rebel-heart-tour-at-madison-square-garden-1.10853713

Madonna's "Rebel Heart" tour delivered a night of expected controversy, but also an unexpectedly overwhelming sense of joy.

 

Sure, there were half-naked nuns on stripper poles and the talk of which body parts of her Kanye West likes best. And yes, her opener Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden was raucous Rockville Centre-raised comedian Amy Schumer, star of the summer smash "Trainwreck," who threw in some jokes about the sex lives of the Obamas and the drinking habits of Hillary Clinton.

 

However, Madonna's "Rebel Heart" tour, which continues Thursday night at Madison Square Garden and Saturday night at Barclays Center, may also be her happiest, most straightforwardly musical tour in decades.

 

While there were plenty of high-flying acrobatics, the most memorable moment may be a lovely acoustic version of "True Blue" -- a rare bow to romance, the sweetest of Madonna sentiments. "I'm feeling very nostalgic," she said, adding that she first played the Garden 30 years ago.

 

Though the focus of the two-hour show is to attempt to give her underappreciated album the chance it deserved, it also recasts her older songs in a new light, from a Latin version of "Lucky Star" to a more trap-influenced "Material Girl" to an acoustic, stripped-down version of "Who's That Girl?" The EDM version of "Like a Virgin," bouncing along on a freestyle-era, 808-beat, was an inspired thrill.

MusicMadonna at Madison Square Garden

"Rebel Heart" was plagued by a series of leaks that forced Madonna to push up its release several months, but many of its songs find her at her most resilient. In concert, the title track was a pretty, no-nonsense declaration of survival, while the sped-up remix of "Living for Love" was dramatic and inspirational.

 

Madonna brought Schumer onstage to receive her "Unapologetic [Expletive]" award of the night, lifting up Schumer's dress to spank her onstage and then giving her a sock puppet and a banana. "Your underpants are awesome," Madonna told her, after complimenting Schumer's opening set.

 

Schumer can add the moment to the incredible year she detailed in her 35-minute set.

"I don't know why I've been labeled a sex comic," said Schumer, who announced that she will headline the Garden on June 23. "It's not fair."

 

She then went on to discuss the nicknames of her favorite sex acts. Schumer, who also announced that her series "Inside Amy Schumer" has been picked up for another two seasons, rolled through observations about her new role as a celebrity, including an imaginary relationship with Bradley Cooper that she concocted after the pair shared a 30-minute conversation at an awards show.

 

Schumer said she had worried about opening the show for months, joking: "Who better to open for Madonna than me? The answer: literally any band."

 

However, Schumer won over the crowd, who gave her a standing ovation at the end. "That is the best feeling I have ever had," she said.

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Madonna Brings Down The House In New York City With Help From Amy Schumer

http://www.inquisitr.com/2425637/madonna-brings-down-the-house-in-new-york-city-with-help-from-amy-schumer/

New York City is where Madonna’s career was started. On Wednesday evening, she played to a full house at Madison Square Garden, and the response from critics and fans was overwhelmingly positive, with even non-fans (perhaps forced to go to the show with spouses) singing Madonna’s praises. Billboard’s Joe Lynch gave the show four stars.

 

“Nostalgia aside, Madonna’s restless creative spirit is on full display on the Rebel Heart Tour. Refusing to coast by playing faithful, familiar live renditions of her hits, Madge recast a number of her classics in different musical molds, with mostly positive results.â€

 

Like other reviewers, Lynch noted that Madonna seems a lot more human on this tour and even kissed a fan who saw the Virgin Tour back in 1985. Lynch also gave praises to opening act Amy Schumer.

“Schumer, incidentally, killed her opening set. Repeatedly mocking the flowering falsehood that it’s a new Golden Era for women in Hollywood while still making jokes about the First Lady taking a hot load, Schumer’s ability to pivot between the bawdy and the incisive proved the perfect fit for a Madonna opener.â€

 

Bradley Stern from PopCrush also praised Amy Schumer, but even had more praise for Madonna.

“The seasoned superstar never faltered throughout the night, effortlessly cycling through intricate hand fan choreography with ‘Bitch I’m Madonna’ to voguing her way through ‘Living For Love’ to delivering yet another stunning rendition of ‘La vie en rose’ all by herself with a tiny guitar, proving for the umpteenth time why the crown lays firmly on her head.â€

 

The response on Twitter was overwhelmingly positive.

“@amyschumer @Madonna amazing evening ladies! #beastsofentertainment,†tweeted Heather Harper.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/2425637/madonna-brings-down-the-house-in-new-york-city-with-help-from-amy-schumer/#YOFx4EyWt0ETuikB.99

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Madonna, Amy Schumer Stay On Top Of Their Game During ‘Rebel Heart Tour’ Stop in New York City

by Bradley Stern September 17, 2015
Read More: Madonna, Amy Schumer Stay On Top During 'Rebel Heart Tour' in NYC | http://popcrush.com/madonna-rebel-heart-tour-new-york-city-review-amy-schumer/?trackback=tsmclip

 

“I can’t think of anyone better to open for Madonna…other than absolutely any band,†Amy Schumer deadpanned to a sea of Rebel Heart Tour merchandise-clad fans awaiting the arrival of the Queen of Pop.

 

The stadium erupted in laughter and roared back with playful cheers, but really, if any #UnapologeticBitch was meant to open for Madge, it was in fact Amy. (And it wouldn’t be the first time she’d appear on the stage that night, either.)

 

The Trainwreck star thoroughly nailed her hour-long opening slot for Madonna’s first night at Madison Square Garden on the Rebel Heart Tour last night (September 16).

 

Like the lady of the evening, Schumer kept the crowd gasping with pearl-clutching subject matter and cutting social commentary, rattling through everything from meeting (and dreaming of dating) Bradley Cooper, to her newfound friendship with Jenner Lawrence (she subscribes to Drake’s “No New Friends†policy — until meeting Lawrence, after which she decided “Okay, maybe one new friendâ€), to her explanation of rare sex positions and a bold declaration of appreciation for, uh, ejaculation. What a time for women in Hollywood! (That’s a running joke.)

 

 

And even though the setting was a bit unusual — most people would raise an eyebrow at the idea of a comedian kicking off a concert (as did Amy herself for months, which she admitted during her set) — the fearless, often crass and always self-mocking set by the ever-refreshing Schumer proved to be a perfect warm-up to what is undoubtedly Madonna’s most lighthearted tour outing in years.

After successfully winning over the crowd (and getting briefly emotional because of the crowd’s overwhelming enthusiasm — really, how often do you see an opening act get a standing ovation afterward?), Amy cleared the stage with her boyfriend — a bottle of wine! — to make way for the Queen, who eventually descended (from the heavens, presumably) in her cage with her appropriately regal, soldier-filled “Iconic†introduction, setting off without a hitch for the rest of the night. (If you haven’t yet, check out our review of opening night in Montreal last week.)

 

From “Into The Groove†to “True Blue†to “Bitch I’m Madonna,†the 30+ year industry veteran squeezed in dozens of her beloved classics in amid more recent Rebel Heart album cuts to a sold out arena (which included Jennifer Lopez, Ariana Grande and Andy Cohen as onlookers), fearlessly pole dancing on top of dancers on crosses, hair-flipping on her knees across catwalks, flamenco dancing and clinging off the top of a tall spiral staircase. Yet even while playing the part of the larger-than-life entertainer on stage she’s been for decades, Madonna has never looked more like a girl simply having the time of her life.

 

“I’m feeling nostalgic tonight,†she told the crowd several times throughout the night, reminding fans that she played the very same venue 30 years ago.

 

At one point, she spotted a man in the crowd with a 1985 Virgin Tour tee. “Were you there?!†she delightfully shrieked, pausing the show to kneel down and grasp his hand and thank him. And that was the theme of the night — and the whole show, really: Gratitude.

 

Toward the end, Madonna brought Amy out as her “Unapologetic Bitch†of the evening. And, in what was a surprise to approximately no one, it was a largely hilarious affair, with Amy happily skipping and hair-flipping around the stage with all her might. Her fandom was showing — and that’s not all she exposed. At one point, Amy bent over to reveal some lacy black underwear, which Madonna greatly enjoyed, showing her appreciation in the form of a spanking-turned-dry-humping session. Amy was later gifted with not only an arm sock (Sock Bitch â€” lucky!), but a banana, which…well, both Amy and Madge knew a few things she could do with that.

“You’re going to Hell,†M told Amy. “It’s okay. I’m in there too with you.â€

 

The seasoned superstar never faltered throughout the night, effortlessly cycling through intricate hand fan choreography with “Bitch I’m Madonna†to voguing her way through “Living For Love†to delivering yet another stunning rendition of “La vie en rose†all by herself with a tiny guitar, proving for the umpteenth time why the crown lays firmly on her head.

 

“It’s like they say, it’s lonely at the top,†she told the crowd at one point, “But it ain’t crowded either.â€

 

Check out our exclusive gallery of photos from Madonna’s first night at Madison Square Garden up top, courtesy of photographer Taylor Miller.

 

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/amy-schumer-gets-spanked-madonna-6459799

 

Amy Schumer gets SPANKED by Madonna and TWERKS during outrageous performance

BYREBECCA MERRIMAN

The funny star joined the Rebel Heart singer on stage after warming up the crowd with her stand-up

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/amy-schumer-gets-spanked-madonna-6459799 for a short video of Amy and Madonna. 

 

Amy Schumer brought her crazy behaviour to Madonna 's gig last night in New York where she not only twerked for the Queen of Pop she managed to get a butt slapping as well.

We all know Madonna loves to put on a racy show, but she might have met her match in the Trainwreck star - who last week crashed a Billy Joel performance with Jennifer Lawrence.

 

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Schumer gets her twerk on during Madonna performance

 

The Rebel Heart tour hit Madison Square Gardens on Wednesday night and after the controversial comedienne helped to warm up the crowd, she joined the Material Girl on stage for a few songs.

 

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Amy and Madonna have some fun during Rebel Heart performance

 

Strutting across the stage, Amy proved she can nail the Madonna moves and put on a butt-shaking display for the crowd.

 

 

 

Things continued to get wild as the actress bent over and jokingly got spanked and kicked by the 57-year-old.

 

 

After the show, Madonna admitted that she has a lot of love for the comedy actress.

"Love You Amy! B**** You ARE IN My gang! Thank. You!! #rebelhearttour" she wrote on Twitter.

It looks like Amy enjoyed it just as much and she simply wrote on Twitter: "I am dead".

 

 

In June Schumer was confirmed as Madge's support act for three of her New York dates and at the time admitted she'd been waiting quite a while to share a stage with her idol.

Sharing an adorable childhood video, the star can be see belting out one of Madonna's biggest hits Like A Prayer.

 

 

 

She wrote on Twitter: "Guess who auditioned for @Madonna and got the part? See you in NYC on Sept 16, 17 and 19."

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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/madonna-spanks-amy-schumer-onstage-nyc-concert-article-1.2364089

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bitch-shes-madonna-nyc-stop-showcases-genius-of-rebel-heart-tour-20150917

 

http://gothamist.com/2015/09/17/madonna_schumer_see_it.php

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http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2015/09/madonnas_new_tour_nj_2015_highlights_moments_photo.html

 

features video of Holy Water/Vogue and Like A Virgin at MSG

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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/amy-schumer-dances-madonna-msg-824120

 

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/09/amy-schumer-madonna