Did We Ever Have a Cake?
There is an interesting bit in the new interview with The Celebration Tour costume designers Eyob Yohannes and Rita Melssen with Vogue magazine that can look like an oversight, or maybe shed some light on the final section of the show. Vogue writes:
One of the greatest moments in the tour comes towards the end, when Madonna performs a special rendition of “Like a Virgin.” All of the dancers wear various looks from her archive—be it a red carpet look or album cover look.
The interesting bit is that Vogue mentions Like a Virgin, but as you know if you attended one of the first two shows at The O2 Arena this past weekend – or you simply decided not to remain spoiler free – that one song in the show is currently an interlude and not a live performance.
There is also a strong reference to Like a Virgin in the press release that Live Nation sent out the day before the opening night:
3 Layered circular stage where the traditional main stage would be, inspired by the wedding cake of Madonna’s original VMA performance.
Last but not least, the number with the Madonna dancers in the recreated archived costumes does actually end on what it should be the “cake” stage, and Madonna herself wears a white wedding veil in this performance – but the song is not Like a Virgin, but an elaborated mash up that starts with Gimme All Your Luvin’/Bitch I’m Madonna and ends with Celebration/Music.
Do all these clues hint at the possibility that at one point Like a Virgin was rehearsed as a live song before becoming an interlude? Was it ever the show’s closing number?
