- By Helen Bushby
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The two fans “would not have paid for the tickets” if they had known the show would end so late, court documents say
Two Madonna fans are suing the US singer for arriving more than two hours late to a show in New York last month, court documents show.
They state that the show was supposed to start at 8:30 p.m. EST on all three nights, but in each case it didn't start until after 10:30 p.m. and ended around 1:00 a.m.
The case states that they “wouldn’t have paid for the tickets” if they had known it would end so late.
The BBC has contacted Madonna, Live Nation and the Barclays Center for comment.
The case, filed by Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden, states that “many ticket holders who attended concerts on a weekday had to wake up early in order to go to work and/or attend to family responsibilities the next day.”
They are suing promoter Live Nation and venue Barclays Center for “false advertising, negligent misrepresentation, and unfair and deceptive trade practices.”
Mr. Fellows and Mr. Hadden attended the show on Wednesday, December 13, 2023, but the legal documents state that other evenings at the same venue, on December 14 and 16, also reportedly started more than two hours late .
“Defendants failed to inform ticket holders that the concerts would begin much later than the start time printed and advertised on the ticket, resulting in ticket holders having to wait for hours,” the document states.
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The show featured dozens of dancers but no band, and many songs were reconstructed from original master tapes
The court filing also states that Madonna “has a long history of arriving and starting her concerts late, sometimes several hours late,” citing as examples “her 2016 Rebel Heart Tour, her Madame began her concerts over two hours late.” .
The plaintiffs are demanding unspecified damages.
This isn't the first time fans have objected to the singer being late to her shows, and in 2019 a fan sued over the lateness of a US show, but a month later he voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit, ABC News reported .
In the same year, Madonna had shared a post of her live on stagein which she told fans: “There’s something you all need to understand. And that means a queen is never late.”
Madonna's sold-out Celebration Tour was a greatest hits show featuring more than 40 songs from her career to celebrate the 40th anniversary of her breakout single “Holiday,” which took place in the United States, Canada and Europe, among other venues.
The singer experienced health problems last summer after she was found unconscious in her New York apartment in June and taken to hospital where she was treated for a serious bacterial infection.