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Summary: Take me there!
Review: I actually felt that I was there and having soooo much fun it's incredible! Madonna at her best!
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Summary: If you are looking for a Madonna concert video, BUY THIS
Review: "Girlie Show" is definitely one of the best concert videos I've ever seen. Brilliant instrumental and vocal performance backed up by one of the most spectacular visual shows ever created for a pop concert. Extremely theatrical.
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Summary: Spectacular performance
Review: I have never seen a live Madonna show, but now I can't wait. This combination of sight and sound was fantastic.There is so much more here than you would expect from a concert...color, dance, music. I was awestruck! There were two songs that I was unfamiliar with, and there were many songs that I would have thought you could hear at any Madonna show that were not played, but in the end, I don't think anything could have been changed to make it a better show.
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Summary: brilliant video, far outdid the live concert itself
Review: this video brings to the screen the excitement that was sadly lacking in an arena (i saw the show in sydney the night it was about 44 degrees celsius and threatened to rain...the night this was filmed). for example, small details that can obviously only be detected by the camera make this video an all time concert classic.
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Summary: High energy and full of visual delights!!!!!!
Review: This show is simply the best show on earth ever recorded. The high energy and kaleidoscopic talent of Madonna is simply a revelation. A must see video!!!!
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Summary: it was like this, before the re-invention
Review: This concert only ran exclusively in a limited number of states and countries and only for a short period of time. Yet, die-hard Madonna fans who were not cowed by her Erotica period attended this show and were not disappointed. If you loved the re-invention tour 2004, you will certainly love this spectacle. The Girlie Show is Madonna's most theatrical, complex, and dramatic live show to date, moreso than the dark Drowned World Tour or the minimalist setting of the re-invention tour. This concert is simply amazing. The choreography will leave you gasping as this concert, more than any other, displays Madonna and her dancers as acrobatic and gymnastically adroit as ever. The costumes are eye-popping and as varied as they come. There is the dominatrix section, the Thai-goddess section, the disco era section, the German Dietrich Cirque du Soleil section, a strange 1930s section that features Justify My Love, and a weird sequence set to the Bible. Though played in 1993, this concert is still as fresh as ever.
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Summary: The Greatest Show on Earth!
Review: A year after she published her Sex book and released her Erotica album, Madonna decided to take her show on the road, this time with ten times the spectacle color, and grandeur of anything she'd done before, or arguably since. The Girlie Show was also Madonna's funnest tour. The overall theme here was "vintage circus chic" (if there ever was such a thing). Madonna takes the best elements of entertainment, voyeurism and spectacle, and packaged it into a smoothly flowing and cohesive sex-travaganza! The Girlie Shows influence can be found in everything from Studio 54 to classic hollywood, and from Victorian England to Weimar Berlin. The real highlights of this tour were the Deeper and Deeper segment (which ends in a frenzied orgy), Bye Bye Baby (affecting a turn of the century bulesque), La Isla Bonita (when ISN'T that a highlight?!) and particularly Justify My Love which turns the "My Fair Lady" Ascot scene into a dark, androgynous, and abstract event. Overall, this is arguably Madonna's most colorful and spectacular show ever. It is also noticeable that during this tour, Madonna is very close to the audience, a lot more than she had been before or since. I recommend this to every Madonna fan!
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Summary: Madonna 1993 Tour
Review: Three years after the Blond Ambition tour came this one called "The Girlie Show", based mostly in her Erotica Album, this concert is more sexually charge than the former with naked girls, same-sex action and unappropiate rubbing, but if you are a Madonna fan you certainly can expect this.
The concert was filmed in Australia and is a colorful spectacular event with complex dancing routines, attractives dancer and the number one live performance show girl/star Madonna.
My favorite songs here were: Vogue ( a different version), Fever (very sexy), Express yourself/Deeper and Deeper (go go theme).
If you are a Madonna Fan is a must have, if not you better like her Erotica album since this is the basic inspiration for the tour, but as always is a great pleasure seeing Madonna live.
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Summary: Spectacular Live Show...
Review: I actually agree with all comments regarding Madonna's 1993 World Tour. Musically, Erotica period was the best period in Madonna's whole career. It was the complex achievement Madonna has ever made. The tour is simply amazing - misicwise and artistically.
The biggest downside of the DVD is its sound quality and no extras included. U.S. Edition only features Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, which is very poor and takes away part of the excitement. If you want to have a good quality one, buy the European two-sided edition featuring Dolby Digital Stereo (the best sound available) and Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound.
I really wish the Girlie Show - Live Down Under DVD will be re-issued in DTS sound soon.
With no hesitation, I recommend you to buy this greatest show!
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Summary: it was like this, before the re-invention
Review: I own DVDs of Blond Ambition, Girlie Show, and Drowned World, and must say that Girlie show ranks third of the three. The show is the weakest because I find the music that Madonna released during this time to be some of the most forgettable of her career. She tries very hard to follow up her "shocking" Blond Ambition Tour with more shock and theatrics, but it just doesn't quite live up to it, and it seems that she tried too hard to shock us. Nevertheless, this is a solid performance. Like another post said, the theatrics and staging aren't as good as the other tours, but this tour was more about music and spectacle (read nudity and mass orgies). Sadly, however, the music just isn't as good. "Rain", "Express Yourself", and "Justify My Love" are the standouts. "Why's it so Hard" and "In this Life" are largely forgettable; "Live to Tell" and "Bad Girl" would have been better suited to this segment, but I am not Madonna, nor am I (...). That may be why it doesn't appeal to me as much. The only segment in which this concert tops Blond Ambition is Madonna's voice. She sings virtually all of the material, something she cannot claim in Blond Ambition, where almost half the numbers performed sport some sort of vocal sweeting, whether it be backing tracks she sings over (Express Yourself) half singing half lipping (Open Your Heart), or just outright lip synching (Vogue). In contrast, only three songs are canned during The Girlie Show, if only the songs she sang were more enjoyable musically. The dancing also had its hits and misses. "Vogue" is no longer "en vogue" with hand movements that must be viewed from row three to see, butlook great when viewed on the DVD, while "La Isla Bonita" is a show stopper. The show begins slowly, "Vogue" or "Bye Bye Baby" should have opened the show, as Erotica is a rather listless way to open a live performance with no vocal oomph, even if she was lip synching. Overall, this was not the best Madonna concert, but she did what she needed to do, and sold out every show. Most of the show is enjoyable with the skip button being used for most of the middle of the show, that's how i view it anyway. I would recomend this concert only if you cannot spot the money it takes to import Blond Ambition from Japan or Europe, or Drowned World is just to dark for your taste. Girlie Show certainly shrouds nothing.
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