Lady Gaga's Mayhem Ball is worth repeat visits if you can get 'em, as our critic explains in a commentary on what makes the tour so fun and vital.

While Madge strutted a look back at the eras of her life in Celebration, Gaga’s Mayhem Ball is Moulin Rouge! on acid with dollops of Alice in Wonderland and Phantom of the Opera in a production design that reveres early 1900s horror.

The pop superstar brought an expanded version of her Coachella spectacular to Inglewood on Monday night for the first of four shows.

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Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters just danced their night away on Monday as the singer opened up the first of four shows of her Mayhem Ball at Inglewood’s Kia Forum. “Welcome to the Opera Haus,” she exclaimed to the crowd full of monsters,

The Mayhem Ball tour, in support of her Mayhem album, kicked off on April 26 in Mexico City at Estadio GNP Saguaros, and Gaga went on to make stops in Rio de Janeiro and Singapore throughout May. The North American leg of her show launched on July 16 in Las Vegas at the T-Mobile Arena.