Lady Gaga is going back to her jazz era, it has been announced, just days after she broke her silence and paid tribute to Tony Bennett.
The 37-year-old performer announced on Monday morning that she will perform during 12 new shows for her residency Lady Gaga: Jazz & Piano at Park MGM this year.
The focus will be on the singer’s ‘love of the great American songbook.’
Several of her top hit songs will also be folded into the act.
Fans are able to sign up for pre-sale right now at LadyGaga.com, with tickets set to go on sale for the general public on Friday, August 4 at 10am PT.
Shows for Lady Gaga: Jazz & Piano have been planned for the following dates: Thursday, August 31. September 2 – 3, 6 – 7, 9 – 10, 28, 30, and October 1, 4 – 5.
Back for more fun: Lady Gaga is going back to Sin City for more performances. The 37-year-old performer announced on Monday morning that she will perform during 12 new shows for her residency Lady Gaga: Jazz & Piano at Park MGM this year. Seen in 2022
Gaga has been in the news for her tribute to her pal Tony Bennett who died on July 21 at age 96.
‘I will miss my friend forever. I will miss singing with him, recording with him, talking with him, being on stage together. With Tony, I got to live my life in a time warp. Tony & I had this magical power,’ her she wrote on social media.
This comes after she said she wanted to be known by a different name during her time on set filming ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’.
The pop star – who was born Stefani Germanotta – plays the Joker’s henchwoman Harley Quinn in the new movie opposite Joaquin Phoenix as Batman’s nemesis and now cinematographer Larry Sher has revealed the singer stayed in character when the cameras weren’t rolling and wanted to be called Lee.
Speaking on ‘The Trenches TV’ podcast, Sher explained he struggled to bond with the leading lady until he found out he had been calling her the wrong name. He explained: ‘I feel like I never really even met her, even during the make-up hair test. Because, again, maybe it’s my philosophy of never trying to get in their space.
‘And then I remember for like a week being like, ‘God I feel like we were disconnecting, not even connecting. We’re like on opposites’. And I would say to my crew like: ‘Jesus I can’t crack it. I feel like she either hates me or we hate each other or there’s something weird going on here’.’
Red hot: Shows for Lady Gaga: Jazz & Piano have been planned for the following dates: Thursday, August 31. September 2 – 3, 6 – 7, 9 – 10, 28, 30, and October 1, 4 – 5. Seen in 2021
Sad farewell: Gaga has been in the news for her tribute to her pal Tony Bennett who died on July 21 at age 96. ‘I will miss my friend forever. I will miss singing with him, recording with him, talking with him, being on stage together. With Tony, I got to live my life in a time warp. Tony & I had this magical power,’ her she wrote on social media. Seen in 2015
However, it all changed after he was clued into what the singer wanted. He added: ‘Then the AD [assistant director] at one point said: ‘Oh you know Stef would like if you just called her Lee on set’.
‘And I was like, ‘Oh, 100 per cent.’ And then I literally said like the next thing I said was something Lee, and it was like everything changes.
‘From that point on it was like our whole connection changed. I was like, OK cool, that’s all I needed to know.’
Lady Gaga’s co-star Phoenix is known for staying in character while working on films, but Sher revealed the actor approached him on the second day of the shoot and explained what was going on.
He said of the Oscar-winner: ‘[Phoenix said sorry] for being whatever like weird, I just need to stay[(in character].’
