MadonnaTribe visitor CJ Ford has just sent in his show review of Madonna’s July 2nd MSG Show in New York.”I just walked in a few minutes ago and thought I would
get everything down while it’s still fresh on my mind. First of all, a word about seating. I bought my
tickets the second they went onsale for this show and
was in Section 211 (paid $169 each) which was listed
as ‘Side Stage‘. This basically means that you are
nearly in the back of the stage and miss what’s
happening on the backdrop screens about 25% of the
time. When we first sat down we were pissed thinking
that the seats were horrible but once the show began
there were only a small handful of times that we
looked up on the big screen to see what was going on
(the biggest time was during ‘Live to Tell‘ because we
were looking at the back of the Cross.)

That said, the show was for the most part flawless.
The first act came off without a hitch and she seemed
really relaxed. During the interlude for ‘Live to
Tell‘ we could actually see her crawl onto the cross
from the bottom and have a couple of people get her
situated before it began to rise. This part of the
show was really powerful although I couldn’t help but
think of ‘The Life of Bryan‘ the way it was lit up.
Nonetheless, she really gets her point across and I
personally don’t see why so many people were annoyed
by this.

When she came out to do ‘I Love New York‘ the crowd
went bezerk. You could tell that she was happy by the
reception this got. btw – someone threw a jacket on
the stage and she kicked it back into the audience and
yelled at everyone after the song about ‘throwing shit
onto her stage’. The energy level kept up until she
got to ‘Drowned World‘ where you could tell that she
really was getting tired and basically went thru the
motions for the last segment of the show. It was
still entertaining but she seemed to just ‘shut down’
and was counting the minutes until she could go home.

Another funny thing was just before ‘Music/Disco
Inferno‘ I could see everyone below the stage on their
skates. When the music started Cloud was playing air
guitar and stopped just before that part of the stage
began to rise.

All in all it was a really good show and I’m sad that
this will likely be my only time seeing her on this
tour due to work taking up all of my free time! For
those of you out there who still have tickets you
really are in for a ride!”
CJ Ford