Gaga’s 'Runway' Goes Live

Lady Gaga ended her Saint Paul show with a song fans had only heard in a movie trailer four days earlier, then turned the encore into a reveal: “Runway” live for the first time, a deep bow, and a new short black hairstyle under the stage lights. Her official tour page listed back-to-back Saint Paul dates on April 9 and April 10, 2026, and fan-setlist tracking shows “Runway” appearing as the closer in Saint Paul. (ladygaga.com) (setlist.fm) “Runway” is not just a tour extra. The song was introduced this week as an original track tied to The Devil Wears Prada 2, and Disney’s trailer page says the film’s final trailer features “Runway” performed by Lady Gaga and Doechii ahead of the movie’s May 1 theatrical release. (video.disney.com) (abcnews.com) That gave the Saint Paul performance a very specific kind of charge: people in the arena were hearing a brand-new soundtrack single before it had any live history, while people online were recognizing a song they had just learned from a 1-minute-24-second film trailer. Variety reported on April 6 that 20th Century Studios used the track in the new trailer, which set up the live debut three days later. (variety.com) (video.disney.com) The location mattered too. Saint Paul was one of the last stops on the North American leg that Gaga’s official site still had on the board this week, with Madison Square Garden in New York next on April 13, so the show already had end-of-tour energy before the encore twist. The Grand Casino Arena page says the April 9 and April 10 concerts were Gaga’s seventh and eighth appearances at the venue. (ladygaga.com) (grandcasinoarena.com) There was also extra suspense because Gaga had canceled her April 6 Montreal date because of a respiratory infection, and local coverage in Minnesota reported that fans were watching closely to see whether the Saint Paul run would go ahead. By April 10, the arena and ticketing pages still had both Saint Paul dates active, and the show happened. (usatoday.com) (grandcasinoarena.com) The song itself arrived with bigger credits than a normal encore surprise. Consequence reported on April 10 that “Runway” was co-written by Bruno Mars, and other music coverage the same day described it as part of the soundtrack rollout for The Devil Wears Prada 2 rather than a leftover tour cut. (consequence.net) (noise11.com) Doechii’s part is a big reason the collaboration landed so fast online. Gaga had publicly praised Doechii months earlier, and by April 2026 the pairing made sense on paper: Gaga brings the arena-pop drama, Doechii brings the sharp, fashion-forward rap voice, and “Runway” is attached to a sequel built around the fictional fashion magazine Runway. Deadline and ABC both framed the track as part of the film’s marketing push. (deadline.com) (abcnews.com) So the viral clips were doing three jobs at once. They were concert footage from a late-tour stop, the first live ad for a May 1 movie release, and the first visual identity for a new Gaga-Doechii song, right down to the bow and the hair change that gave fans a clean image to circulate. The official Saint Paul dates, the trailer timing, and the soundtrack tie-in all lined up within the same week. (ladygaga.com) (video.disney.com) (variety.com) That is why one encore in Minnesota traveled so quickly. A song teased on April 6 in a studio trailer got a live premiere on April 9, then rolled into April 10 with fresh clips, while the movie it belongs to is still three weeks away. In pop terms, that is the equivalent of showing the final scene before opening night and making the audience carry it out of the building on their phones. (variety.com) (ladygaga.com)