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Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Madonna Coming To Yankee Stadium In September

Maybe I can get back staged passes! (breaks ankle doing nostalgic Club 57 thrift-store boogie drop)

Fresh off her Super Bowl halftime performance, and its attendant digit-borne controversy, Madonna has announced a world tour in support of her forthcoming album MDNA. Its New York stop is set for September 6 at Yankee Stadium, which has a big wide-open schedule surrounding that date, just FYI. (Madonna’s tour goes from Boston on Sept. 4 to New York on the 6th to Ottawa on the 10th.) Tickets for the show go on sale on Monday, February 13, at 10 a.m., with prices ranging from $52.90 to $375.05.

Repoz Posted: February 07, 2012 at 10:39 AM | 37 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. UCCF Posted: February 07, 2012 at 10:56 AM (#4055356)

If all she does is lip sync and halfheartedly move her arms around, does it count as a "performance"?

2. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: February 07, 2012 at 10:59 AM (#4055360)

If all she does is lip sync and halfheartedly move her arms around, does it count as a "performance"?

I think the performance is getting all those people to pay actual money to watch her.

3. Tim Wallach was my Hero Posted: February 07, 2012 at 11:10 AM (#4055377)

And she'll be in Quebec City on the Plaines d'Abraham on Sept. 1st. I'll be attending with my 5yo daughter. I saw Paul McCartney, Metallica, Elton John, Arcade Fire, Rammstein, Black Eyed Peas, Black Keys, Iron Maiden and Rush on the Plaines in the past 4 years. It was packed for every show, with the exception of Arcade Fire. The Plaines are an amazing natural amphitheatre with room for 90,000-100,000 in fron of the stage, and 30,000 more in the back (with screens and great sound). Anyway, I'm really not a Madonna fan, but it's going to be fun to attend the concert nevertheless.

4. Jose Can You Seabiscuit Posted: February 07, 2012 at 11:17 AM (#4055387)

I would think a Madonna show would be pretty entertaining. I enjoy a lot of her older stuff but I suspect it would just be an entertaining spectacle.

I think if you go to a Madonna show expecting a true "concert" you'll be let down. It's going to be heavily choreographed with the lip syncing and predictablity that comes with that but I would expect her to put on a good show.

5. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: February 07, 2012 at 11:17 AM (#4055388)

If all she does is lip sync and halfheartedly move her arms around, does it count as a "performance"?

Of course it does. They gave Jeter a Gold Glove for it.

6. Old Man James Posted: February 07, 2012 at 11:25 AM (#4055399)

If she changes her dance style from "almost falling several times" to "actually falling several times" I'd go.

Get some flats before you break a hip grandma!

7. RB in NYC (Now with New iPhone!) Posted: February 07, 2012 at 11:26 AM (#4055401)

I would think a Madonna show would be pretty entertaining. I enjoy a lot of her older stuff but I suspect it would just be an entertaining spectacle.

I think this is true. Anyone who goes to a Madonna (or Britney Spears or what have you) concert expecting it to be about music is rather missing the point, I suspect.

8. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: February 07, 2012 at 11:29 AM (#4055409)

I hope she closes the show with "Joba Don't Preach."

9. The Piehole of David Wells, Depends Salesman

Posted: February 07, 2012 at 11:32 AM (#4055412)

Either Repoz is related to Thomas Pynchon or he is Thomas Pynchon. I incline toward the latter.

10. RMc is the loyal supporter of the MLB event Posted: February 07, 2012 at 11:47 AM (#4055429)

Fun fact: Madonna attended the University of Michigan at the same time as my older brother.

11. Bob Tufts Posted: February 07, 2012 at 12:26 PM (#4055486)

"I like her early work"
"If his answer is anything other than "I've never bought one".......

12. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: February 07, 2012 at 12:30 PM (#4055490)

If she changes her dance style from "almost falling several times" to "actually falling several times" I'd go.

Get some flats before you break a hip grandma!

13. bobm Posted: February 07, 2012 at 12:31 PM (#4055491)

Was this the only way to make sure A-Rod would be out of town when Madonna comes to Yankee Stadium?

14. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: February 07, 2012 at 12:36 PM (#4055501)

All I can say about Madonna is that there's a sucker born every minute, and more power to her if she can keep attracting them.

15. McCoy Posted: February 07, 2012 at 12:40 PM (#4055506)

What is wrong with being born gay?

16. McCoy Posted: February 07, 2012 at 12:42 PM (#4055508)

It made me sad, watching her during the Super Bowl. So much of the choreography was obviously meant to distract from her frailty and keep her from breaking or tearing anything important.

Doesn't seem fair that people should have to get old.

It might have been because she was old but she did injure herself during rehearsals. As we all know you don't need to be in your 50's to pull a hamstring.

17. TerpNats Posted: February 07, 2012 at 01:14 PM (#4055551)

The House That George Rebuilt = The House That Maddy Performed In.

18. Adam M

Posted: February 07, 2012 at 01:20 PM (#4055562)

Either Repoz is related to Thomas Pynchon or he is Thomas Pynchon.

I don't think so. Pynchon's references are less obscure.

19. Melo's Love Handles (NJ) Posted: February 07, 2012 at 01:24 PM (#4055570)

I think this is true. Anyone who goes to a Madonna (or Britney Spears or what have you) concert expecting it to be about music is rather missing the point, I suspect.

Spoken like someone who's never seen Beyonce perform live. I had no great love/respect for her/her music, other than a physical attraction, until I randomly ended up with tickets to see her concert at MSG a few years back. Assuming that Jay-Z would appear at some point I decided to go and was blown away by how much singing/dancing/everything she does.

20. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: February 07, 2012 at 01:31 PM (#4055583)

It might have been because she was old but she did injure herself during rehearsals.

I hadn't heard that. Makes sense, though.

21. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: February 07, 2012 at 02:16 PM (#4055628)

Primey for #5.

22. Mike Webber Posted: February 07, 2012 at 02:17 PM (#4055632)

C'mon Repoz, tell us the details of your "encounter" with Madonna!

23. phredbird

Posted: February 07, 2012 at 03:26 PM (#4055717)

what gets me is how much they can do with a stage now with all this new technology. the spectacle was quite stunning for something had to set up in about ten minutes. the musical content, meh.

24. Steve Parris, Je t'aime Posted: February 07, 2012 at 03:41 PM (#4055734)

I like her early stuff. You know, 'Lucky Star', 'Borderline' - but once she got into her 'Papa Don't Preach' phase, I don't know, I tuned out.

25. YR Denies Jesus Montero Posted: February 07, 2012 at 03:50 PM (#4055745)

C'mon Repoz, tell us the details of your "encounter" with Madonna!

I'm sure my brief meeting with Madonna won't hold a candle to his but I did see her on South Beach in the mid-90s with her girlfriend. She looked sorta worn out and haggard, I was a bit taken aback, IIRC this was right about the time she had that dust-up with David Letterman and her hair was dyed black. That same night I saw Sharon Stone and she looked magnificent - every hair in place, just radiant, like a studio photo of a Golden Age starlet. You couldn't help but stare.

I've heard Madonna puts on a heck of a show though. Weird how all the 80s acts are the big headlines on tour this summer. I'll be curious to see if even this aged version of Van Halen remains the greatest rock band in the universe.

26. phredbird

Posted: February 07, 2012 at 04:05 PM (#4055769)

'Borderline'

that song is one that brings back many carefree memories of the 80s, MTV, and so on ... she seemed like she was going to be something special.

27. scotto Posted: February 07, 2012 at 05:44 PM (#4055846)

A friend of mine in his early 50's describes his musical tastes as spanning the 3 M's: Madonna, Metallica and Merle. He enjoyed the halftime show more than anyone else at his SB party.

28. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: February 07, 2012 at 05:48 PM (#4055853)

It's been the case for at least 15 years that the top-grossing tours are almost entirely legacy acts like Cher, the Stones, U2, or McCartney, or reunions of the Police, Eagles, and E Street Band.

29. scotto Posted: February 07, 2012 at 05:56 PM (#4055863)

It's been the case for at least 15 years that the top-grossing tours are almost entirely legacy acts like Cher, the Stones, U2, or McCartney, or reunions of the Police, Eagles, and E Street Band.

It's not remotely close to the same thing, but John Doe told me to expect future X tours after their first one even if they never got into a studio. "DJ, Exene and me have always been ready to go. Billy's been the holdout. Now his kids need braces. Our kids are going to college. It ain't like we have savings!" That's probably some of the same motivation behind the Dinosaur Jr., Archers of Loaf, and so forth's reunion tours.

30. The Good Face Posted: February 07, 2012 at 05:56 PM (#4055864)

I'm most impressed with her capacity to reinvent herself. She's made a seamless transition from hot, young pop tart to haggard, shrieking harridan.

31. Repoz

Posted: February 07, 2012 at 06:24 PM (#4055904)

C'mon Repoz, tell us the details of your "encounter" with Madonna!

Madonna was a great...uh, dancer.

She was a semi-regular at Club 57 with two other girlfriends, one of which had a thing for my Stewart Copeland look-a-like buddy, so we would hang around/dance/drink etc. together a few times...but she bored very quickly and was always pushing her friends to go to a more disco-y sounding jernt.

We never went with them because bogus Copeland had the bartenders bandboozeled into cocktailing us freebies all the time!

32. cercle Posted: February 07, 2012 at 06:27 PM (#4055908)

It might have been because she was old but she did injure herself during rehearsals.

I thought HGH had magical healing powers?

33. RB in NYC (Now with New iPhone!) Posted: February 07, 2012 at 06:43 PM (#4055928)

Spoken like someone who's never seen Beyonce perform live. I had no great love/respect for her/her music, other than a physical attraction, until I randomly ended up with tickets to see her concert at MSG a few years back. Assuming that Jay-Z would appear at some point I decided to go and was blown away by how much singing/dancing/everything she does.

Interesting. As a fan of terrible Top 40 pop and spectacles, I'll have to go check it out

34. attaboy Posted: February 08, 2012 at 05:50 PM (#4056735)

"Papa Don't Preach", visually...the best video ever! There is bouncing in that video which will make every 12-26 year old male very happy to be watching her Worble out a song.

35. Bob Dernier Cri

Posted: February 08, 2012 at 06:09 PM (#4056758)

The halftime show was aesthetically hideous, but as it was unfolding in front of me, I thought, "y'know, Madonna is exactly my age." In fact, she's eight months older than I am. She's eight days older than Julio Franco, which I thought was impossible. Even at her reduced rate of gyration, she is in way better shape than I am. Dunno about Julio Franco.

36. The District Attorney Posted: February 08, 2012 at 06:17 PM (#4056765)

I'll be curious to see if even this aged version of Van Halen remains the greatest rock band in the universe.

The album is not terrible.

(Probably because it's the weird scenario where the songs were actually written when the band was still good; they are just getting around to recording them 30 years later.)

Even at her reduced rate of gyration, she is in way better shape than I am. Dunno about Julio Franco.

I don't know you, but... yes.

37. Fred Lynn Nolan Ryan Sweeney Agonistes Posted: February 08, 2012 at 06:41 PM (#4056785)

(Probably because it's the weird scenario where the songs were actually written when the band was still good; they are just getting around to recording them 30 years later.)

Hey, it worked for the Stones.
For awhile.

38. phredbird

Posted: February 08, 2012 at 07:38 PM (#4056825)

gad, she's only 3 yrs younger than me.

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