A Lady Gaga concert special based on her 2022 “Chromatic Ball” tour will air on Max and premiere on the network on Saturday, May 25 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The Grammy and Oscar-winning musician performs hits including “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance,” “Poker Face,” “Shallow,” “Rain On Me,” “Stupid Love” and more in front of a sold-out audience of 52,000 at Los Angeles’s Dodger Stadium in September of 2022.
Lady Gaga produced, directed, and wrote the program; executive producers were her longtime manager Bobby Campbell; Live Nation touring president Arthur Fogel; and John Janick and Steve Berman of Interscope Records.
According to HBO senior vice president of programming, late night & specials Nina Rosenstein, Lady Gaga is a total force. “Gaga Chromatica Ball” showcases her never-ending skills as a once-in-a-lifetime artist. It gives us great pleasure to work with her once more on this amazing concert special.
Naturally, the performance commemorated an album that was released in the summer of 2020, a dance-party album when there were few parties and most dancing was done at home. It was held just months after the epidemic started to lighten up. Chris Willman of Variety stated of the event, “Gaga has remained unafraid in making it clear that 2020’s ‘Chromatica’ is the album she is very much touring behind, with 10 songs from the two-year-old album accounting for just under half the overall set.” Late in the two-hour show, Gaga made progressively long asides that seemed to triumph over the pandemic: “The whole world did not fade.” In a sense, every one of us is here, she continued. However, you could also perceive, as an undercurrent, a sense of vindication for the “Chromatica” record itself, given her resolve to avoid having it remembered as a lamb that got lost in the storm.