Alex, Madonna and the Twisted Dollmaker
Here’s a reminder of our first exclusive interview of 2006 that premiered here on MadonnaTribe News the last week of January.
Talented choreographer Alex Magno is back on M-Tribe for an interesting chat about the making of Madonna’s Drowned World Tour from 2001. With 2006 marking the fifth anniversary of that one of a kind tour, we chat with Mr Magno about how he got to work on his second Madonna tour and the great ideas and choreographies that were put together for this show, including never before heard details about the deleted number “I Want You”.
What follows is another excerpt of this interview that you can read in full by clicking HERE.
MadonnaTribe: Is there any number from Drowned World tour that originally had choreographies or ideas, that did not end up in the final show?
Alex Magno: Yes (Laughs). In “Candy Perfume Girl” my original idea was to have this crazy guy, this menacing character, played by Anthony the dancer, to have broken dolls, pieces of dolls, heads, legs, inside of his backpack. He was sort of a doll maker and as he turns the heads of the dolls, Tamara, the female dancer of the number would turn her head or would contorse sort of like Tamara and the doll are the same. I wanted to put him on a moving platform where he first assembles the doll and then the platform would start moving closer to where Tamara is on stage. He would drop the doll and go where Tamara is and kill her. So it was a concept about a crazy killer that stalks strippers. When we showed to Madonna she freaked out (Laughs).
MadonnaTribe: Really?
Alex Magno: Yes, well the prop guy instead of giving me a doll with no face, he gave me a doll that looked like a three year old girl. But Madonna wanted to see it and I told her that it was not the right prop and it wasn’t going to look right. But she insisted.
So I played Anthony and I just showed roughly what he would be doing. When I showed it to her she freaked out because she is a mum and told me I was a pervert (laughs). It was funny and everybody laughed and made fun of me. And it obviously didn’t end up in the tour but nevertheless the idea is still there as we were able to use some of the stuff, like the backpack, the glove, etc.