While Madge strutted a look back at the eras of her life in Celebration, Gaga’s Mayhem Ball is Moulin Rouge! on acid with dollops of Alice in Wonderland and Phantom of the Opera in a production design that reveres early 1900s horror.

Lady Gaga is having a ball… and so are we. It’s been a hell of a 2025 for her: A few months ago, she put out what might be the most purely enjoyable album of her career, “Mayhem.” Now, she’s fairly freshly embarked on what will stand as the quintessential large-scale tour of the year

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