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Madonna's tour “Sticky & Sweet” in Chile December 10

The guessing is over: Madonna will perform in Santiago de Chile on Wednesday December 10th according to the “Sticky & Sweet” tour official site www.madonna.com. A devoted fan club presale of tickets will start on midnight Wednesday 27 until September 5. Regular tickets sale goes on Wednesday September 10.

There are no ticket prices so far but in Canada and United States they averaged 70 US dollars. But news from Brazil is that tickets range up to 400 US dollars and similarly in Mexico. The "Sticky & Sweet" tour has four acts with the participation of 16 dancers and 12 musicians who make up the delegation of the diva. Apparently in the first act Madonna appears dressed by Givenchy in the art-deco style of the twenties, gangsters' spirit. This is followed by the "Old School", recalling the New York of the eighties and the birth of rap. Then comes gypsy inspiration with a "VIP trip to the island of Bonita" and finally "Rave that combines electronic culture with oriental influences. Meanwhile Madonna's world tour kicked off at the Cardiff Millennium Stadium with controversy after she compared Republican presidential candidate John McCain with Adolf Hitler and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. Madonna gave her fans a not-so-subtle dose of her political stance during the first show of her tour with video interlude images of Hitler, Mugabe and McCain flashed on screen, along with images of destruction and global warming. "The comparisons are outrageous, unacceptable and crudely divisive all at the same time. It clearly shows that when it comes to supporting Barack Obama, his fellow worldwide celebrities refuse to consider any smear or attack off limits" Senator McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said. A later sequence in Madonna's on-screen collage showed slain Beatle John Lennon, Al Gore, Mahatma Gandhi and finally McCain's democratic rival, Barack Obama. Madonna' stage show in Cardiff involved 250 crew, two million US dollars in jewels, 16 dancers and eight costume changes. The tour takes in 16 European venues, including London's Wembley Stadium, before moving to North and South America.