Ramin Setoodeh Co-Editor-in-Chief Hello, Brooklyn. Is Madonna in the house? It’s after 10 p.m. on Wednesday night, and the Material Girl is nowhere to be found on the first hometown stop of her career-retrospective “Celebration” tour.
The promenade down memory lane — by Madonna, for Madonna — kicked off in London in October, and is now belatedly on its North American leg (which, as anyone reading this probably knows, was scheduled to launch last July but was postponed just weeks before after the singer was found unconscious, reportedly due to a bacterial infection).
So some people have been waiting six months for this show. If only Madonna would — to quote another great poet of his time, T.S.
Eliot — hurry up please, it’s time! Or, to quote Madonna herself: Time goes by so slowly for those who wait… Photos: Ricardo Gomez The vibe inside the Barclays Center had started off with puffs of pot smoke and Fire Island-circuit, party-ready club music curated by DJ Honey Dijon.
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