Review of Madonna Celebration Tour - Brooklyn (w/ Ben Rimalower)
Hot Takes & Deep Dives
Jess Rothschild
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Jess is joined by Ben Rimalower to review Madonna's Celebration Tour in Brooklyn, NY. We discuss our thrills, Madonna's "strategy" behind late start times, the set list and provide constructive critique. Later, Ben recalls how Madonna's health scare this summer catapulted him into a revisit of Madonna's entire catalogue and concert history, culminating in his attendance mere hours ago.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives and I am here with my King Ben Rimmelauer. |
| 0:21.0 | We are a little worse for the wear. We barely got any sleep last night. |
| 0:26.0 | Truly. Now we saw the opening night at Barclays in Brooklyn. I think what we saw will be the most exciting night maybe of the entire |
| 0:36.0 | tour with the exception of opening night in London because this is the first show in |
| 0:41.6 | the US. |
| 0:42.9 | We've actually been recording for 45 minutes already |
| 0:45.7 | and we haven't even gotten to the concert. |
| 0:47.4 | So Ben just did a soliloquy that I'm gonna put. |
| 0:49.9 | I don't like when you call a soliloquy. |
| 0:52.0 | What was it? I was an answer to your question. It was a monologue. No, no, no, but in the best way. It was the Rimmelauer special. I don't feel safe. |
| 1:00.0 | So now we're going to get into the, we kind of I'm going to piece together this episode so we have the lead to the concert |
| 1:07.1 | I know it piece together means that piece together Patty Leppone's role in witness |
| 1:12.0 | when I when we arrived at dinner, you were already spinning out. |
| 1:16.0 | You in fact said that you don't even know if you're going to be able to make it to the concert? |
| 1:19.0 | No, first I was doing good. |
| 1:20.0 | Before you got there, I was making a chart of all the 14 Stephen |
| 1:24.4 | Sondai musicals and the 14 Madonna albums and trying to figure out which |
| 1:28.2 | aligned with which. I just felt really strongly that Ray of Light was a |
| 1:32.0 | reset like Sunday in the park with George, |
| 1:34.6 | but it got a little hairy in the weeds beyond that and then you arrived. |
| 1:39.8 | But then when my CBD hit, I was like starting to get... |
| 1:43.0 | You threatened, you threatened to leave? |
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