Stufish and The Celebration Tour Creative Team

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The incredible stage for The Celebration Tour has been created by the entertainment architects at Stufish, a team who collaborate with Madonna since 2012 and provided designs for the MDNA, Rebel Heart and Madame X tours and other shows such as Tears Of A Clown and the performances at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards and Eurovision Song Contest final.

In a series of posts on Instagram, Stufish explain the concept behind the tour stage and also share the details for the Creative department of the show, a very helpful list considering that a tourbook for The Celebration Tour has not seen the light yet. They wrote:

This week saw the opening of Madonna’s #celebrationtour in London. After over a year in development #stufishstudio are so proud and excited to celebrate our 4th Madonna tour stage design from a collaboration from over the last 12 years. This tour celebrates Madonna’s iconic career through 40 years of music.

The concept of the stage design is a network of stages and runways inspired by the streets and blocks of Manhattan. These runways radiate from a kinetic, revolving, three layered circular stage which is inspired by a combination of the wedding cake from Madonna’s original VMA performance in 1984 and the circular form of a clock. The layers of the clock are able to rotate and lift up and down like a time machine, transporting the audience through 40 years of Madonna’s Music.

The Celebration Tour

Managed and produced by Guy Oseary and Sara Zambreno

Promoted by Live Nation

Conceived and Performed by Madonna

Director for Stage Jamie King, Tiffany Olson

Creative Director: Lewis James asst Dannah Gottlieb

Creative consulting : Ricardo Gomes

Stage Architecture and Prop Design: Stufish

Lighting Design: Rob Sinclair / 1826 Studio

Live Video Director: Bertrand Paré

Music Producer: Stuart David Price

Musical Director: Kevin Antunes

Stylist: Eyob Yohannes and Rita Melssen

Video content director: Sasha Kasiuha

Video Editor: Mykyta Bereg, Nuno Xico, Danny Tull

Choreography: (La)Horde – Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel – Valeree Young, Matt Cady, Damien Jalet, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Kevin Vives, Megan Lawson, Metznoun Mecnun Giasar (Majnoon), Tony Tzar, Nicolas Huchard

Additional choreography: Arturo Lyons, Ivy Mugler, Princess Lockerooo, Travis Payne, Kento Mori

Performer/Special guest : Bob The Drag Queen

Production Director: Mike Morobitto

Production Manager: Chris Coffie, Jason Danter

Tour Manager: Jeremy Childs

Stage and automation: Tait

Props: PRG North America, Czinkota Studios Ltd.

LED edging: Lightin Initiative

Lighting: Solotech

Special FX: Strictly FX

Sound: Eight Day Sound

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6 hours ago, Brendanlovesu1 said:

The concept of the stage design is a network of stages and runways inspired by the streets and blocks of Manhattan. These runways radiate from a kinetic, revolving, three layered circular stage which is inspired by a combination of the wedding cake from Madonna’s original VMA performance in 1984 and the circular form of a clock. The layers of the clock are able to rotate and lift up and down like a time machine, transporting the audience through 40 years of Madonna’s Music.

And we don’t have a wedding cake performance 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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11 hours ago, Brendanlovesu1 said:

Music Producer: Stuart David Price

Musical Director: Kevin Antunes

 

What do we think happened? Maybe she planned for a live band but she wasn't feeling it and thus called in Stuart?

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5 hours ago, Pedro Beltran said:

And we don’t have a wedding cake performance 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Well, cuate, as she always says, she doesn't want to repeat herself... (I assume however I would be fvcking curious to see how'd it be a 2023 wedding cake performance by current M...)