And pop fans could also see Britney Spears for the first time. A Madonna show at Telstra Dome has been pencilled in for September 29 and is tipped to be confirmed this week.
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The Telstra Dome date - a Tuesday - would not clash with the venue’s AFL commitments.
Fans may have to shell out $150 for the cheapest seats, given the falling Australian dollar and Madonna’s high production costs.
Seats closest to the stage could sell for as much as $400. The itinerary was posted on her promoter’s website, Live Nation, yesterday. It listed shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Perth, as well as Europe and Japan, before being swiftly removed.
Madonna will extend her 2008 Sticky and Sweet tour - which became one of the highest-grossing tours in history, making $420 million - to visit places she missed last year. Fan forums are already suggesting the diva should ditch many of the songs from the flop Hard Candy album for a greatest hits set.
Her Australian promoter Michael Coppel yesterday refused to comment.
Madonna’s last Australian tour was in 1993. Several Australian promoters are negotiating to bring Britney Spears to Australia for the first time, also in September. Dates have been tentatively discussed for indoor shows in Melbourne and Sydney, as well as New Zealand.
Insiders say Spears’ Circus tour will be one of the biggest productions to play indoor venues in Australia. Britney’s world tour begins in New Orleans in March. Ticket sales for the tour have already reached 600,000.
Source: News.au
