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Madonna Tears Of A Clown intimate concert for fans at the Forum in Melbourne

FANS were kept waiting for nearly four hours in the rain last night for Madonna to start her intimate, secret show in Melbourne.

Cameron Adams and staff writers
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March 11, 2016 - 7:06AM
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Fans wait outside the Forum Theatre in Melbourne for last night’s Madonna invite-only performance. Picture: Andrew Henshaw
Fans wait outside the Forum Theatre in Melbourne for last night’s Madonna invite-only performance. Picture: Andrew Henshaw

MADONNA wept over her estranged son Rocco during a secret show in Melbourne overnight after fans were kept waiting for nearly four hours in the rain for the performance to start.

The doors at The Forum Theatre were meant to open at 8.30pm but Guy Oseary then told the soaking fans, many who had camped overnight since Monday, that they not be open before 10.30pm and the pop singer would most likely not be on stage before 11.30pm.

The queue stretched up Hosier Lane into Flinders Lane with the doors eventually opening close to midnight.

Fans said the delay was because Madonna was rehearsing the show up until the last minute.

Superfans, wearing Madonna T-shirts, passed the time performing singalongs in the street.

Diehard fans brave the rain for the Madonna concert. Picture: Cameron Adams / Twitter
Diehard fans brave the rain for the Madonna concert. Picture: Cameron Adams / Twitter

Taking to the stage in a pink top hat and clown make-up, the emotional star dedicated her song Intervention to Rocco, 15, who refuses to move back to New York to live with her.

Madonna is embroiled in a bitter legal battle with her ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, who is fighting her in court for custody of Rocco.

The Queen of Pop poured much off her sadness into her intimate two-hour Tears of a Clown show, peppering emotional renditions of her hits with cheeky jokes and banter.

The 57-year-old opened the show with her comedy skits before performing Drowned World/Substitute for Love from her 1998 album Ray of Light.

Wearing an extravagant clown outfit with a billowing yellow top and pink and white striped socks, the mum-of-four rode a tiny tricycle around the stage to the delight of superfans.

She also stunned by belting out Borderline and Take a Bow — songs she has rarely performed live.

Concertgoers flew in from around Australia and the world — including a couple from Germany — to see Madge.

The fans at the Forum show could only win tickets via Madonna’s fan club or through Rebel Heart tour sponsor Telstra.

Names were printed on tickets to stop the money-can’t-buy tickets being scalped.

Earlier last night, Madonna announced that her Tears of a Clown show would be filmed and included on the Rebel Heart Tour DVD.

She was reportedly spotted dining at Il Solito Posto.

At a rehearsal overnight in the Hisense Arena she performed the following songs: I’m So Stupid, Nobody’s Perfect, Don’t Tell Me, Borderline, Love Spent, Joan of Arc, Take a Bow and Holiday.

Madonna rehearsing for her Tears Of A Clown theatre show for fans. Picture: Guy Oseary / Instagram
Madonna rehearsing for her Tears Of A Clown theatre show for fans. Picture: Guy Oseary / Instagram

Madonna posted photos of her dressed as a clown on her social media, as well as a video of her riding a tiny bicycle in clown shoes. Sources say the video was shot in New Zealand not Melbourne.

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Madonna will perform at Rod Laver Arena on Saturday and Sunday before moving to Brisbane and Sydney next week, where the Rebel Heart world tour will end.

Originally published as Madonna Tears Of A Clown intimate concert for fans at the Forum in Melbourne

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