No Madonna fan should expect a Madonna show to start on time. So says Team Madonna
Cerys Davies April 5, 2024
Madonna knows fans don’t expect her to start her show on time. Now her legal team is trying to prove it.
Back in January, two attendees of a Madonna concert in Brooklyn filed a lawsuit against the 65-year-old pop star, claiming false advertisement and breach of contract
due to her tardiness.
Filing against Live Nation and the Barclays Center,
Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden
, who filed against Live Nation and Barclays Center,
are now faced with a
dismal dismissal
request from Madonnas lawyers.
“Plaintiffs speculate that ticketholders who left the venue after 1 a.m. might have had trouble getting a ride home or might have needed to wake up early the next day for work,”
stated
Madonnas request, obtained Wednesday by Fox News Digital. “That is not a cognizable injury.”
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The concert took place
on December
Dec. 13 at the
Barclays Barclays
Center in Brooklyn
the kick -off show to kicking off
the U.S. leg of
her
Madonna’s Celebration Tour.
In a previous
to The Times, Madonnas management teams and Live Nation said,
The shows opened in North America at Barclays in Brooklyn as planned, with the exception of a technical issue December 13th during sound check. This caused a delay that was well documented in press reports at the time,
Madonna’s management team and Live Nation said in a previous
to The Times.
That night, the show did not begin until almost 11
pm p.m.
several hours after the doors opened and two hours after the expected start time. Fans immediately took their outrage to social media.
In Hadden and Fellows class-action lawsuit, they alleged The class-action lawsuit alleges
that there was no notice to
the
ticketholders that the shows start time would be later than the time
shown
on the ticket.
But in the recently retrieved court document,But
Madonnas team
states in the new filing thatit said
nowhere on the ticket
did it say that
the concert would begin at 8:30 p.m.
The motion reads, no reasonable concertgoer and certainly no Madonna fan would expect the headline act at a major arena concert to take the stage at the ticketed event time.
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The seven-time Grammy winners Celebration Tour is the 12th tour in her career. Given
her Madonnna’s
experience as a performer, her dismissal notice
repeatedly
brings up what a reasonable concertgoer would expect from a concert.
“Rather, a reasonable concertgoer would understand that the venues doors will open at or before the ticketed time, one or more opening acts may perform while attendees arrive and make their way to their seats and before the headline act takes the stage, and the headline act will take the stage later in the evening,” the court filing reads.
The Celebration Tour
itself
was originally postponed due to the singers sudden hospitalization with a severe bacterial infection last year. But
with after
the challenges she has faced, the Material Girl is currently finishing up the U.S. leg of the tour and will conclude the tour April 26 in
her
Mexico.
