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Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour By The Numbers

8/21/08, 10:50 am EST

Photo: Pugliano/Getty

With Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour set to kick off this Saturday in Cardiff, Wales, a statement from the Material Girl’s publicist explains just how mammoth an undertaking each Madonna concert is. For instance, the tour will travel with 250 personnel members, 3,500 individual wardrobe elements, 69 guitars (ten for Madonna), 16 caterers, five people to help Madonna do costume changes, three “Romanian gypsy musicians” and 180 Q-Tips. The whole intricate list can be viewed here. It reads like a backstage rider, but it’s more of an onstage rider. Additional numbers of interest: Madonna and her band rehearsed for roughly 653 hours to get ready for the tour, and Madonna will have only a minute and a half to make her shortest costume change. Details about the concert itself have also emerged, with the show being divided into four sections. The “Pimp” portion is “a mashed up homage to 1920’s deco and modern day gangsta pimp.” That’s followed by Old School — which pays homage to 1980s NYC — and “Gypsy,” where you can probably expect to see those three Romanians. It all wraps up with the dance-heavy “Rave” section. Madonna stays in Europe through September 27, then takes some time off before kicking off the North American leg of the trek on October 4 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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Timbo | 9/24/2008, 7:37 am EST

Duh. This is her job people. Why don’t you guys quit your job and travel to Africa, make a documentary of the experience, then sign off on a bunch of milion dollar checks en route to various charities. Oh wait…Madonna did that.

She’s Tacky as hell…but be fair and give some credit where its due.

LeRoy | 8/27/2008, 7:02 pm EST

The Wicked Witch should straddle her guitar and pluck the high cord to blast off into the dephts of H… to be with own type of audience.

RIghtwing_yuk_yuk | 8/25/2008, 8:53 pm EST

WoW

What a carbon footprint.

I can sell her some carbon credits, no problemo.

AmercianMale | 8/22/2008, 5:07 pm EST

she farts dust

Kathy | 8/21/2008, 4:05 pm EST

What a fucking diva. If she really wanted to make a difference in the world, maybe she should give up one of her beloved caterers to provide food to those who need it, or give her guitars to schools without music programs. She should be ashamed of herself.

Sophie | 8/21/2008, 3:54 pm EST

16 caterers…one for each of her personas; one for bagels and lox, one for fish ‘n’ chips, one for arroz con pollo, two for sushi (remember “Sex”)…

Sophie | 8/21/2008, 3:47 pm EST

16 caterers, huh? Guess we know what happened to all the food in Ethiopia.

The King of Comedy | 8/21/2008, 2:49 pm EST

I think if we collage all of Jughead’s posts, we would come up with a fairly mediocre comedy routine.

Jughead | 8/21/2008, 2:33 pm EST

There’s some other items that have been left off that list which will also be part of Madonna’s tour: she’ll be bringing 47 vibrators and dildos (for use prior to each concert) and 15 color photographs of A-Rod (which she’ll use as a source of “inspiration” during her pre-concert sensual therapy sessions).

skydog57 | 8/21/2008, 1:32 pm EST

geez … 27.2 days of practice? makes for a “real” tight band.

Joe | 8/21/2008, 1:25 pm EST

Ten guitars for Madonna. Jesus wept.

Bimba | 8/21/2008, 11:21 am EST

And how many people it will need to carry the formalin supply?

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