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Welcome to the cabaret - '90s style.
Madonna is as all-American as Marilyn Monroe and plunging necklines, but her "Blond Ambition" tour, which played to the first of three consecutive sold-out houses at the Centrum last night, owes more to the dark, decadent days of Weimar Germany.
Her tightly scripted, expertly choreographed show apes everything and everyone from Marilyn and Prince to Marlene Dietrich and the big bands of the 1930s, mixing in heavy dollops of Madonna's own special brand of religiosexual confusion. It's clear from the beginning, however, that she is in control of this mammoth spectacle. The show, complete with seven dancers, two back-up singers and a tight, unobtrusive band led by keyboardist Jai Winding, is 100 minutes woman on top - literally...