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Everytime she starts a tour,she "hints" that she will tour Australia,then always backs out of it.There's just NO excuse for that! "Needing to spend time with my kids" is a LAME excuse.I don't think the kids would mind if their mother was on the road for an additional *week*,doing several shows down under.It won't kill them to not see her for just a few extra days 
I heard a rumor that "Love Spent" has been added to the setlist.
Madonna expresses herself, often darkly, in powerful Philadelphia show
The messages hit hard and fast as tour for 'MDNA' arrives in North America; next week it's NYC
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 2:50 PM
Jim Farber
Enid Alvarez/New York Daily News
Madonna performs at Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Arena
Forget marriage, motherhood and the kabbala. Madonna’s startling new “MDNA” tour — which made its first American drive-by at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Arena Tuesday night — finds her angrier, darker and more unhinged than on any road show of her 30- year career. It’s an idea-intensive, message-packed enigma wrapped in a “what-the?” ethic that must be seen to be believed.
Where to begin?
Where all things Madonna must, of course — with her original nurturing place and nemesis: the church. “MDNA” kicks off in a shrouded cathedral, exuding ritual, mystery and no end of judgement.
That the star herself blasts into the scene miming her zippy electro-dance gem “Girl Gone Wild” may sound cheeky and even giddy, but she comes in bearing a gigantic gun — one which, before long, she points directly at the audience.
Those who like their art confrontational may consider this a (literal) bangup start. Especially since it’s followed by Maddy mouthing “Revolver,” which treats sex as a deadly lure, animated by images of ammunition raining down from the heavens.
From there, the star launches into “Gang Bang,” which could be history’s first disco murder ballad. Here Madonna blows away an army of intruders with enough relish to secure a starring role in the next Quentin Tarantino gorefest.
Unsurprisingly, scenes like this caused many critics who caught the tour’s European dates to consider the show a disturbing downer. Clearly, that made Maddy self-conscious. Right before the American leg started on Tuesday, she issued a statement spelling out the breadth of her intentions. The long-winded directive stresses that she means the show to capture the “journey of a soul from darkness to light.”
If so, that soul takes its sweet old time about getting to the light bit, and even then, it rarely stays there long. Even deep into the night, Madonna performed “Human Nature,” a song recorded during her most confrontational period, the mid- ’90s.
She animated it with a striptease that was in no way meant to be alluring — though the star, at 54, does look smashing. Instead, the move aimed to reveal the depth of Madonna’s defiant character, a role she by now occupies with unquestioned authority.
The late part of the night also included a willfully depressing version of “Like a Virgin,” which Madonna has rethought as a draggy ballad. Her Dietrich-esque vocal meant to make her sound like the most sullied, sex-weary woman alive.
With moves like this, Madonna certainly isn’t making it easy on herself — or her audience. For a marquee figure like her to do so deserves praise.
The forward push extended to nearly every aspect of her music. She played no fewer than nine songs from her latest CD, and most of the hits she included could only be heard in snippets during costume changes.
As has become common on her tours, Madonna radically rearranged much of her material. She inventively toughened up once light songs like “Candy Shop” or “Hung Up.”
For “Open Your Heart,” she featured three Basque singer/drummers to give the song some folkier and earthier filigrees. The piece also featured her son Rocco dancing along with the 20 featured pros.
While some segments appeared to be lip-synched, Madonna didn’t shy away from revealing her voice for more of the night, often with solid results.
She didn’t leave the politics in her show to implication. Yet again she announced her support for the jailed Russian art group Pussy Riot and used its members’ struggle as a way to warn American fans not to get “fat and lazy” about their own freedoms.
As everyone knows, Madonna takes a shot at Lady Gaga by melding her own “Express Yourself” with a cover of the song by the younger star that sounds suspiciously like it, “Born This Way.” In case anyone missed the point, she followed it with her own “She’s Not Me.”
At another junction, a video image of Nicki Minaj reminded us “there’s only one queen — and that’s Madonna.”
Naturally, being queen has its privileges — including being able to stage a show larded with statements and heavy on aggression. At times, such things hampered the show’s momentum, seemingly in the service of jamming in more “messages.” If all that made the show hard to adore, it also made it easy to admire.
Madonna will play a supersized, stadium version of the Philly show at New York’s Yankee Stadium, Sept. 6 and 8. Then the experience will play to the Garden on Nov. 12
I've seen a few performances from this tour (the "Vogue/Candy Shop" segment is incredible) but for the most part,I've resisted the urge to see all of it.Someone actually posted the entire show on Youtube,but I'm ignoring it.Wanna be surprised when I see the show in October.
