“To age is a sin,” Madonna’s voice booms to the audience one night in London on her Celebration Tour, nearing the end of a two-hour retrospective show. “I think the most controversial thing I’ve done is to stick around.” A lot has happened in the performer’s 40-year-long career. Reinvention after reinvention, there’s been music, movies, books, theatre, scandals, fallouts, family, ageism, sexism, rock bottoms and career peaks – but “stick around” she has. For the Queen of Pop, building a retrospective world tour was never going to be a small feat, but it was a challenge that a then 27-year-old creative director for the stage, Lewis James, accepted in October last year. A year later, following London’s final arena show at the O2 – the first of 78 shows across 15 countries – he’s finally enjoying some respite.
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