On the Confessions Tour, "Lucky Star" was performed with Madonna dressed in a purple and white leotard, designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier. Following the performance of "La Isla Bonita" Madonna lies face-down on the stage. Her dancers wrap a cape around her that proclaim the word "Dancing Queen" at the back. The intro to "Lucky Star" is heard, Madonna gets up and faces the audience. The lights go off and Madonna opens the cape to reveal the inside of the cape to be lit. Her backup singers join her and together they move around the stage, while singing the song. Towards the end of the song, Madonna also sings the chorus of the next performance, "Hung Up". The performance was included on both the CD and the DVD version of "The Confessions Tour", released in 2007. Ed Gonzalez of "Slant Magazine" compared Madonna's performance of "Lucky Star" as "a soul butterfly fluttering to the disco heavens during a remix of song that actually makes sound good." Thomas Inskeep from "Stylus" called the performance fresh. Christian John Wikane from PopMatters was not impressed with the performance; he felt that singing the song over the newly arranged chord progression, is cold and pairing the original arrangement with the ABBA sample is "[a match not made in heaven, though Madonna's skin-tight, ABBA-esque jump suit is an amusing intertextualization."