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I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience.

Madonna Ciccone

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Madonna Ciccone
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 16
Actor
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Bay City
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Madonna Louise Ciccone
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
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