Beyoncé addresses dad, Sony execs at Roseland show

She treated the approximately 2,500 fans in the sold out venue -- all four nights sold out in minutes...

Aug 18, 2011

Beyonce brought the house to a frenzy again and again during the second night of her four-night-stand Tuesday at New York’s Roseland Ballroom. She treated the approximately 2,500 fans in the sold out venue — all four nights sold out in minutes — to a night of story-telling and song and start-to-finish dance routines.

She walked — or perhaps “ran” would be more appropriate — fans chronologically through her career with Destiny’s Child and her solo projects via a rapid-fire medley of choruses and stories, and also performed her new album, 4, in order, in its entirety.

Beyonce gave her father Mathew Knowles — estranged as her manager — props, saying that he interrupted Destiny Child’s first audition because Beyonce had gone swimming the night before and her stuffed-up nose left the group unprepared to perform. “And he was right,” she said.

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