{"id":69976,"date":"2024-02-03T18:04:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T23:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/02\/03\/madonna-performs-this-used-to-be-my-playground-live-for-the-first-time-at-chicago-show\/"},"modified":"2024-02-03T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T23:04:36","slug":"madonna-performs-this-used-to-be-my-playground-live-for-the-first-time-at-chicago-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/02\/03\/madonna-performs-this-used-to-be-my-playground-live-for-the-first-time-at-chicago-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Performs \u2018This Used to Be My Playground\u2019 Live for the First Time at Chicago\u00a0Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tFans attending Madonna<\/a>\u2019s The Celebration Tour stop in Chicago last night (Feb. 2) got to hear something the Queen of Pop has never done before: perform her 1992 No. 1 Billboard Hot 100<\/a> hit \u201cThis Used to Be My Playground\u201d live. (Well, a bit of it, at least.)<\/p>\n

\n\tThe song<\/a> was written by Madonna and Shep Pettibone for the 1992 film A League of Their Own<\/em>. Madonna co-starred in the baseball comedy-drama as \u201cAll the Way\u201d Mae Mordabito, and the song played over the film\u2019s end credits. Until last night, it was the only one of her 12 No. 1 Hot 100 hits that she had never performed live.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the concert at The United Center, Madonna reminisced about filming the movie, which was a fictionalized story about the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI hope that you guys remember,\u201d she told the audience, \u201cI made a film called A League of Their Own<\/em>, and I had to learn how to play baseball in this city. I was here for months! And, um, I kinda sucked in the beginning, but I got good. I got good at it. All the Way Mae, that\u2019s right. Remember her? I learned how to play baseball in this goddamn city! And do you remember the song? While we\u2019re taking a trip down memory lane in my retrospective [show].\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe then sang a few lines, a cappella, of the beginning of \u201cThis Used to Be My Playground,\u201d with the crowd\u2019s help, telling the audience, \u201cAww, bless you,\u201d after they joined her. She then joked, \u201cI thought only 10 of you would know it. Turns out 20 of you knew it. I\u2019m just kidding.\u201d<\/p>\n

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