Lady Madonna: What a performer.

Madonna…check!

Last night, I officially checked Madonna off my list of icons to see live. Show was great! Madge is definitely a diva to the highest degree, but man can she put on a show. The sets were amazing. Her dancers? Unbelievable. Her figure? To die for! I mean, seriously, who wears a lycra bodysuit? Madonna does because she doesn’t have an ounce of fat on her!! And having seen her show, I now understand why. Madge put on a full two-hour show taking maybe two three-minute costume-change breaks along the way. She was constantly running around, riding a fake merry go round horse, clamping herself to a cross, climbing fences, rolling around on the ground. I mean, the woman just never stopped performing. It was amazing.

My only gripe? That she didn’t play enough old stuff. But I guess I already knew that going in. We were treated to “Like a Virgin”, “Lucky Star”, and “Live to Tell”, but that was about it. She snuck on-their-way-to-oldies like “Erotica” and “Ray of Light” in there too, but the bulk of the show were songs from her new album. That was fine by me, though. I have the CD and love it. They’re all very catchy numbers and are beats I hear on a routine basis working at the bar. Among my favorite new songs? “Sorry”, which was one of the cooler performances of the night.

Perhaps the real star of the evening, however, was my friend Brooke. A former waitress now bartender at the Bell, Brooke’s boyfriend Carl is the electrician at the TD Banknorth Garden, the venue for the Madonna show. In other words, he can totally hook people up. Brooke sauntered into “The Harp”, the bar where we pre-gamed, and told us she had some Loge seats for my crew and me. This was excellent news, of course, considering our seats (Jackie, Michaela, Renee, and myself) were in the East Bumm balcony, almost in the rafters. My mom, her friend Rosie, and my sisters Krissy and Maryanne were also in the Loge a few sections away.

Little did I know that our particular Loge seats were directly to the right of the stage!! Madonna was essentially yards away from us. When she performed on the elevated ramp near our section she was a few feet away from us. Amazing seats! Thanks Carl and Brooke!! I owe you some drinks for sure!