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The Blond Ambition Tour, Madonna's world tour of 1990, is considered by many to have changed the look and feel of concert tours. The tour spanned fifty-seven shows in twenty-seven cities in Japan, the United States, Canada, and Europe, and lasted approximately four months. Many consider it to be one of the greatest achievements of Madonna's career. It was a controversial tour that garnered mixed critical reviews, but mostly positive reviews from fans. Among fans, it remains perhaps the most popular of all of Madonna's concert tours.
HistoryThe Blond Ambition Tour was an hour-and-a-half concert that Madonna likened to musical theater. The singer's then-largest tour incorporated as central themes sex and Catholicism, a combination which engendered controversy. (The Pope called for a boycott of the show in Italy, and one of three scheduled Italian dates was cancelled.) The show has achieved a measure of cult status, with elements such as the cone brassieres becoming cultural icons in their own right.
French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier designed the costumes for the Blond Ambition Tour, including the now-infamous cone brassiere. Additional costume pieces were designed by Marlene Stewart, who had previously worked with Madonna on the 1987 Who's That Girl Tour. Director Alek Keshishian captured more than 250 hours of film of Madonna and her troupe during the tour. This footage was edited and released to movie theaters as Truth or Dare (retitled In Bed with Madonna in Europe). Due to ongoing throat problems, six shows had to be cancelled, bringing the tour down from 63 shows to 57; altogether, some 125,000 tickets had to be refunded.
In 1998 a tribute show was produced at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles, California titled The Blonde Exhibition in which twelve Madonna look- and sound-alike performers from across the US recreated the singer's career from beginning to (then) end. A year later this idea was carried over into the MTV Video Music Awards in which Madonna herself appeared. The showBlond Ambition shows were separated into four different segments. The first segment was the Metropolis segment, which was inspired by the famous German silent film of the same name by Fritz Lang. The set was straight from Madonna's "Express Yourself" video (also inspired by this film) featuring a huge staircase inside a huge "machine-room" full of half-naked male dancers. The second segment was a religious-themed set of five songs in which Madonna shocked the world with her masturbation on a crimson-sheathed bed during "Like a Virgin". The third segment was taken directly from the Dick Tracy movie, which was just starting in cinemas during the tour. The fourth segment was more of the light-hearted kind with a spoof-segment of Madonna mocking her image as a "Material Girl". The set ended with a dramatic yet minimalist performance of her then-current superhit "Vogue", featuring paintings by Tamara de Lempicka on the huge screens behind Madonna and her dancers. (Paintings by Tamara de Lempicka had previously been used in the opening of Madonna's 1987 Who's That Girl Tour.) The encore of the show was a combination of another light-hearted rendition of "Holiday" before Madonna went into a super-stylized version of "Keep It Together", which was inspired by the work of Bob Fosse. The Japan and North American shows featured Madonna in her trademark blonde ponytail hair extensions. However, because the hairpiece kept getting caught in her headset microphone and was pulling her real hair out by the root, she switched to short blonde curls for the European leg of the tour. The Barcelona show at Estadi Olímpic featured 7 minutes long extravagant fireworks after the concert to the cheering crowd. [1] The tour grossed U$65,7 million. Broadcasts and recordingsTwo shows were released commercially. The August 5 show in Nice, France, was taped and aired on HBO in the United States and releasd worldwide exclusively on LaserDisc, titled Blond Ambition World Tour 1990 - Live, as part of a sponsorship deal with Pioneer Electronics. One of the Yokohama, Japan dates was also taped and released on VHS and LaserDisc in the Japanese market as Blond Ambition - Japan Tour '90. Pioneer signed an exclusive deal to release these concerts on Laserdisc only and thus no video or DVD has yet been released. In addition to these shows, the August 1 show in Barcelona, Spain was taped and aired on television in Europe and Australia. This show is known by fans for Madonna's unusually poofy hair (likely caused by the extremely hot weather) and numerous technical mistakes (including Madonna forgetting part of the lyrics to "Sooner or Later" and "Material Girl"). One of the Paris, France dates was also taped by Alek Keshishian for Truth or Dare. Video of one of the Houston, Texas dates taken from the video screens has been widely circulated among the fan community. In addition a Germany-only DVD Blond Ambition Tour 1990 is from the same Houston show, which was also partially aired live on the MTV special 'Blond Date' during a 'Madonna Weekend'. The audio from two other shows was recorded and distributed by Westwood One: London and Houston. Also, the audio from a Dallas show was market by an Italian company. Opening Acts
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Tour DatesCancellations (6): May 25 Chicago, June 6 Worcester, June 15 Philadelphia, June 22 E. Rutherford, July 1 Berlin, July 7 Rome.
Dates: 57 (63 scheduled) Personnel
Studio albums: Madonna (1983) · Like a Virgin (1984) · True Blue (1986) · Like a Prayer (1989) Discography · Tours · Videography · Filmography · Achievements and Awards · Bibliography · Unreleased songs · Controversies it:Blond Ambition Tour nl:Blond Ambition Tour pt:Blond Ambition Tour fi:Blond Ambition Tour External Links
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