Madonna, four decades of hits in two and a half hours of show

MEXICO CITY (process.com.mx).–How to describe Madonna’s “The Celebration Tour”? Like a musical-theatrical show worthy of an artist with four decades of history, this was Madonna’s first of five concerts at the Palacio de los Deportes, which she will repeat this April 21, 23, 24 and 26.

Madonna’s ambitious project to celebrate forty years of career goes beyond a setlist with 26 hits and a mega world tour (it is speculated that it will be one of her last), it is an invitation to discover personal passages of the artist, who from time to time from time to time he stops to explain moments that he considers important.

Since her adolescence in the eighties, insecurities, fears, fears, but also dreams, ambition, adventure, sexual openness, support for the LGTBQI+ community, her nods to acting, her maternal stage, and that of a revolutionary icon in the music industry .

After the almost two and a half hour show she gave, Madonna was forgiven for the hour and a half delay with which she started the show (the appointment was 9 p.m.), historically it is common for her to start late, just remember that in January Last year, New Yorkers sought to sue her because she started two hours late.

The concert was divided into six acts and the beginning left attendees amazed: LED lights, three front screens plus four side screens in total (which appeared and disappeared as needed), plus a megacrown of lights in the center that flicked through the air from time to time. when.

As mentioned, the show is a musical-theatrical spectacle, it included a presenter throughout the concert, “Bob the Drag Queen”, who appears at various times throughout the night. The first act was purely eighties with songs like “Nothing really matters”, followed by “Everybody”, “Into the groove”, “Burning up”, “Open your heart” and the mega hit “Holiday”.

Frida

In addition to greeting the attendees and thanking Mexico for its support over time, he stated that when he was a teenager he discovered Frida Kahlo, in a Museum in Detroit, Michigan:

“I fell in love with the painting with a woman with intense eyes and long hair, then I learned about her story and it gave me hope because she felt that no one understood her, just like I felt.

Frida is my mother, my animal spirit, my eternal muse, she inspired me, I now inspire you. Mexico has beautiful traditions, I am very happy to be here, thank you for supporting me, welcome to my trip!”

And Madonna is a Fridomaniac, she has a collection of works by Kahlo valued in millions, including ‘My Birth’ and ‘Self-Portrait with Monkeys’ which she acquired for 1 million dollars; In fact, last February she posed in that month’s edition of Vanity Fair with one of her dancers in an outfit alluding to Frida.

The second act warmed up the engines with “Live to tell” and “Like a prayer”, and for the third they heard “Erotica”, “Justify my love”, the tremendous “Hung up” and “Bad girl”, a song in the which she sang accompanied by her daughter Mercy James on the piano.

In all songs the costume changes were evident not only for the artist but for more than 15 dancers, the stage was transformed in each act, it was the same as a disco music room, as a room, a ring the box, a club or a rodeo.

For the fourth stage, the audience was shaken by the hit “Vogue”, in which he invited ‘Guillermo’ Rodríguez (a figure from Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show) and his daughter Stere was seen doing ‘voguing’ alongside the dancers; Then it was the turn of “Human nature” and “Crazy for you”.

For the fourth and fifth acts, they enjoyed “Die another day”, “Dont tell me”, “Mother and father” (in which he performed with his son David Banda, who is also a musician), “Express yourself”. , “La Isla Bonita” which unleashed massive chorus, and “Dont cry for me Argentina”, which he performed in the film ‘Evita’ (1996) – film version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that tells the life and death of Eva Perón—and gave Madonna a Golden Globe as an actress.

For the sixth moment, “Bedtime story”, “Ray of light” and “take a bow” were heard.

Reason for celebration

The night concluded with a seventh act as a way of reaffirmation as the ‘Queen of Pop’, where a brief tribute to Michael Jackson was seen through a screen with movements of Billie Jean, while a ‘young Madonna’ exchanged her classic “Like a virgin”.

“Bitch Im Madonna” followed, and finally “Celebration” where the artist was seen across four decades, with her dancers walking around the stage converted into ‘Madonnas’ through their most iconic costumes.

“If you get over the death of loved ones and the negativity that comes into your life, that’s a reason to celebrate,” Madonna said on “The Celebration Tour.”

The positive points of the concert? Madonna’s “The Celebration Tour” will surely be remembered as one of the great productions of 2024 that set foot in Mexico, negatives? Remember that you have to wait to see her majesty, the ‘Queen of Pop’, and therefore the departure is after midnight, public transportation is not an option when the show ends.

After Madonna’s first night at the Palacio de los Deportes, the artist returns on four more dates, April 21, 23, 24 and 26, after which she will travel to Brazil to perform on May 4.