Arena - three songs into the opening date of her Celebration tour It's a statement you could take in a number of ways. It may refer to the life-threatening health scare that forced the postponement of her current tour, and which seems to have affected the audience's reaction: they cheer every dance step she undertakes as if it's a victory against the odds. Or it may refer to the improbability of Madonna becoming the biggest-selling female recording artist of all time, given her humble beginnings.
The first part of the retrospective show is what you might call her origin story: the show's MC, Rupaul's Drag Race winner Bob the Drag Queen, makes reference to her arrival in New York from her native Michigan with $35 to her name.
Her performance of Holiday is preceded by a recreation of the fabled Manhattan club the Paradise Garage, with Madonna insufficiently famous to gain entrance; she plays distorted guitar during a ramshackle version of Burning Up, as she apparently did on stage at CBGB when she was in a band called the Breakfast Club.
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