Hours spent waiting in the rain for a tardy Madonna were quickly forgotten as audiences were treated to a setlist punctuated with bawdy jokes and anecdotesIt was close to 1am by the time Madonna finally came trundling on to Melbourne’s Forum stage on Thursday,dressed in a bright yellow clown smock, riding a tiny tricycle and waving to a sea of 1500 competition winners. Doors had been billed to open at 8.30pm and many had waited in the rain for hours. One fan claimed to gain been standing external the venue since Tuesday. Music critic Lachlan Kanoniuk attended the intimate, or offbeat and highly confessional cabaret show,and said when the American singer-cum-circus clown entered to the sounds of Stephen Sondheim’s Send in the Clowns, “everyone was like: ‘Oh shit, and that’s Madonna doing laps on the stage,on a tricycle.’ ”
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Source: theguardian.com