Madonna: The Confessions Tour (2006)

This show was so exhausting to watch and there's only two numbers "Drowned World/Substitute for Love" and "Paradise (Not for Me)" where you can sit down and just contemplate it all. The opening of this show will go down in history as the most visually thrilling as Madonna enters the stage via a gigantic Swarovski crystal ball that comes down from the ceiling, and the huge screens from behind it show images of horses galloping. Horses play a role in this show due to Madonna falling off one. The infamous scene with Madonna on the cross is in this show as a huge screen counts to 12 million the number of how many African children are orphaned due to HIV/AIDS. At the end a website address comes up for anyone interested in donating. We then go into the theme of the environment, and again images of politics and religion are shown. There's an interlude and then the show starts again to the music of "I Love New York" and "Ray of Light" this part of the show is one of my favourites with the dancers doing there funny hand movements.Towards the end there's the "Music" number with the song "Disco Inferno" mixed in with the song and the dancers make more of there presence known. The ending again is full of energy as the show wraps up to the tunes of "Lucky Star" and "Hung Up", and hundreds of golden balloons fall from the ceiling at the end the message "Have you confessed?" comes up.The DVD is worth buying, and the soundtrack was added as a bonus.

Well I have to say I had the chance to see this show here in Philadelphia,PA sometime in June of 06.And I really loved it.my all time favorite Madonna look was the 1990 Blond Ambition tour era.this to me is "MADONNA".now that she is a mother of 3 she has to change some things to suit motherhood.and I totally agree.this is a classic Madonna concert.I wish "live to tell" wasn't edited.we saw body's falling from buildings on 911,we can see a woman on a cross...any way I'm looking forward to the release of this tour on DVD and hope it is the entire show unedited and with a bunch of bonus footage.she is a artist of all time.the best out there...and still at the top and going strong.long live MADONNA !

Years ago, with "Ray of Light," Madonna broke through to a truly amazing level of musical artistry, and since then she's occasionally transcended even her own standards. This concert production, with its hypnotic editing, amazing dancing, hallucinatory lighting effects, and trance-inducing arrangements, blows away all previous efforts. Madonna's apparent ambition -- to single-handedly bring about world peace through music and dance -- may seem hubristic or absurd to some. But hell, somebody's got to do it! Thanks to her assemblage of the remarkable talent of everyone involved in this production, "Confessions Tour Live from London" places her once again among the top ten artists working anywhere in the world in any medium.

As I watch Madonna on TV I'm shaking my head. The camera director must be on something. The cameras kept changing every few seconds. It was making me dizzy. Madonna's songs had that same beat. I liked her MTV videos a lot better. The scene was dark. In the beginning of her show, what's up with the horses? That's just the first hour. The special effects were redundant. It's all flashy. I just want to see Madonna sing her songs. I didn't know she could play the guitar. Or is she actually playing it. I have two more lines to write. That's the minimum. All I wanted to write is about the camera shots. Just saw the camera aimed at her gyrating hips, again. This is my tenth line. Excuse my ranting and raving.