Review: Beyoncé is indomitable as the Renaissance Tour plays its first American show in Philly
Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — Beyoncé’s South Philly Renaissance began with a prelude. Before darkness fell on Lincoln Financial Field on Wednesday, an enormous video screen showed a TV test pattern, cleverly reworked to include colors of the Progress Pride Flag celebrating the LGBTQ community. That screen became an image of a cloudy […]



The Philadelphia Inquirer
PHILADELPHIA — Beyoncé’s South Philly Renaissance began with a prelude. Before darkness fell on Lincoln Financial Field on Wednesday, an enormous video screen showed a TV test pattern, cleverly reworked to include colors of the Progress Pride Flag celebrating the LGBTQ community. That screen became an image of a cloudy blue sky, and then — as the anticipation of the sellout crowd turned into ecstasy — it was filled in with a stadiumwide image of Beyoncé herself. And then there she was, at 8:45 p.m. sharp. In a short black Givenchy dress, uttering the words that her mostly female, significantly…
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