Concert Review: Pink Reaches Full Altitude at Spectacular Forum Show
In the history of traveling pop music outings, there’s probably never been a better first 10 seconds of any tour than the opening of Pink’s current show.
After a small eternity in which the audience is left gazing at a reddish curtain, increasingly indented as unknowable pieces of staging are pushed into place, it suddenly drops and the crowd is immediately plunged into a “Get the Party Started” that appears to have already started a few hours earlier.
A dozen bits of business are happening with the dancers, musicians and props, but at or hovering over the center of it all is Pink, hanging from a quadruple-scale chandelier that is already deep into pendulum mode.The waste-no-time audaciousness of opening the show with this “joined already in progress” moment is kind of as if Cecil B.
DeMille decided to dispense with preliminaries and start “The Ten Commandments” right as
