However, the ending was strange/curious in that after the elaborate staging, including the exit into the screen, all executed perfectly, Diana emerged again from stage right, this time wearing a brown leather jacket, a dark blue blouse or shirt with a murky floral or geometric print and pale, ripped blue jeans. She may have performed one or two lines of the song that was still playing at that time and said a few words of farewell.
Some folks liked the transition, with Diana leaving the over-the-top glamour behind and revealing her authentic self in a rather common street look before she darted out of the West 51st Street stage entrance, hopped in a limo and was gone before audience members left their seats; others didn't.
I didn't, maybe because suddenly she was too casual and too real, which made everything before that seemed too pre-packaged and too phony and artificial.
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