Madonna Includes Canadian Stop On Upcoming Tour
Canadian fans of the Material Girl can rest easy. Madonna has included a stop in Toronto on her upcoming summer tour.
The tour, titled The re-Invention Tour, will launch in Los Angeles on May 24 and hit Toronto on July 18.
It’s been over a decade since the pop diva performed in the city. But catching the show at the Air Canada Centre won’t come cheap. Tickets, which go on sale Saturday, range from $49.50 to $300.
Some had begun to wonder if Madonna was intentionally snubbing the country after she bypassed Canada during her last road trip, 2001’s popular Drowned World Tour.
Theories for the Canadian omission included suggestions of lingering fallout from the singer’s 1991 documentary Truth Or Dare, in which Madonna referred to the fascist state of Toronto after police tried to rein in her raunchy shenanigans during the Blond Ambition Tour.
But that’s unlikely. Madonna last performed in Toronto and Montreal in 1993 on her Girlie Show Tour. She also made a stop in 1998 to promote her Ray of Light CD.
Madonna’s longtime manager Caresse Henry said the mother of two has already started rehearsals for the new tour.
“She can’t wait to get back on stage to recreate her songs from the earliest days of her career up until the present,” she said in a statement.
Madonna has sold over 250 million albums during her two-decade long career.
A second show in Montreal is rumoured on her fan site, www.absolutemadonna.com but her representatives at Warner Music Canada say they haven’t heard of such a possibility.
Source: CTV Canada