Tardy to the party, Madonna makes it a late-night ‘Celebration’ at US tour kickoff in Brooklyn

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“Bedtime Story” that only Madonna could tell.In the true tradition of her notoriously late concert starts, the Queen of Pop kept her loyal subjects waiting until almost 11 p.m.

before taking the stage to kick off the US leg of her “Celebration Tour” at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Wednesday night. Due to the tour’s postponement — after a serious bacterial infection sent Madonna to the ICU in June — local fans already had to wait four months since the original New York dates in August were rescheduled.So what’s another couple of hours?Although the tickets had a scheduled 8:30 p.m.

start — rather than the usual 8 — absolutely no one expected Madge to go on then. And with an unexpected opening DJ set by star spinner Honey Dijon, it became clear that the singer wasn’t going to go on before 10 p.m.As Honey worked the crowd into a fierce frenzy, the arena was transformed into one big club that hosted a reunion of New York nightlife scenesters who may not go out like they used to, but got back into the groove for Madonna.And after about a 40-minute break that made it feel even later on a school night, Madonna gave the fans all that they had been waiting for with 40 years of hit after hit from the woman who invented Eras long before Taylor Swift.Just as it felt like a reunion for many in the audience, it was a homecoming for Madonna after two months on tour in Europe. (And she’ll be back at Barclays Center on Thursday and Saturday before Madison Square Garden dates on Jan.

22, 23 and 29.)After taking it back to her early days with “Everybody,” her 1982 debut single, and “Into the Groove,” she embraced the Big Apple love in her own New Yorker way. “It’s like a big fat smelly rat . .