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Madonna is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park on Tuesday, and fans can expect a return to a musical focus on this tour. Her clothes will likely remain on, and the show will be cloakd in theatrics and dance.
IS there life after Sex?
That's the question Madonna will be trying to answer next week as the "Most Famous Woman in the World" catapults into town for a concert on Tuesday at Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv.
Dubbed "The Girlie Show," Madonna's tour is her first since the simultaneous release last fall of a book, an album and earlier this year, a movie, all on the same subject: Sex.
The publication of Sex, the scandalous coffee-table tome devoted to fantasy and sleaze, was accompanied by a huge media blitz, including armed guards accompanying the books to the stores. The book included photographs of Madonna in various states of undress with imaginative combinations of companions and props, including knives, whips and masks. Some countries banned the publication of the book.
Erotica, the book's musical equivalent, highlighted sexual imagery while finding Madonna successfully mining the dance-oriented vein on which she built her career. The record has sold more than 5.5 million copies worldwide.
If that wasn't enough to convince the public of her obsession with the flesh, she starred this year with Willem Dafoe in Body of Evidence, an erotic thriller about a woman who uses her body to ... well, you get the picture.
Sexual focus is nothing new for Madonna. Her rise to fame almost a decade ago spawned a whole generation of Madonna wannabees, who took to flaunting bare midriffs and wearing their undergarments on the outside.
Her refreshing openness and nothing-to-hide attitude attracted many fans who had become tired of the rock-star-in-the-mansion approach. She opened up her personal life, and in another case of extreme self-promotion exposed it to the world in...