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Live performances
Madonna has included "Material Girl" on five of her concert tours: Virgin (1985), Who's That Girl (1987), Blond Ambition (1990), Re-Invention (2004), and Rebel Heart (2015―2016). On the first one, it was sung as the final number; she wore a white tube top, a tight white skirt, and threw fake money to the audience while asking them, "do you think I'm a 'Material Girl'? Well I'm not. I don't need money. I need love". Billboard's Paul Grein applauded the number's sense of humor. The performance was included in the VHS release Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour, recorded in Detroit, Michigan. For 1987's Who's That Girl World Tour, the song was performed in a medley with "Like a Virgin" and "Dress You Up". Madonna changed her clothes in an onstage telephone booth and emerged wearing a dress covered in toys, trinkets, and other plastic paraphernalia. The Washington Post's Richard Harrington praised the singer for "putting a sweet edge on a song that's sometimes been turned against her". Two different performances can be found on the videos Who's That Girl: Live in Japan, filmed in Tokyo on June, and Ciao Italia: Live from Italy, filmed in Turin on September.

For the song's performance on the Blond Ambition World Tour, Madonna and her backup singers sat on a raised platform, wore bathrobes and hair curlers, and sang in high-pitched, out of tune vocals; she also changed the song's lyrics to "experience has made me a bitch". Afterwards, she took out fake dollars from her corsage and threw them up in the air. For Shari Benstock and Suzanne Ferriss, authors of On Fashion (1994), the performance reflected "the labor and ridiculous activities that [women] go through to make themselves 'beautiful', and mocks the ideal of the 'material girl'". Two different performances can be found in Blond Ambition Japan Tour 90, taped in Yokohama, Blond Ambition World Tour Live, taped in Nice.



On 2004's Re-Invention World Tour, Madonna sang an "almost hard-rock version" of "Material Girl". She wore military fatigues and played electric guitar as the backdrops displayed mathematical equations and DNA helixes. Yahoo! News' Angela Pacienza noted that it was the number that caused "some of the loudest screams of the night". Madonna did an a capella rendition of "Material Girl" on the Detroit concert of 2008's Sticky & Sweet Tour per the crowd's request. Lyrical elements of the track were incorporated to the performance of "Girl Gone Wild" on 2012's The MDNA Tour. "Material Girl"'s performance on 2015―2016's Rebel Heart Tour took place in a "'20s Parisian jazz club" setting, with Madonna decked out in a flapper outfit. In the number, she pushed male dancers with top hats down an upended video screen titled 45 degrees; towards the end, she walked down the stage's runway in a bridal veil and a white bouquet, that she eventually threw into the crowd. Don Chareunsy, writing for the Las Vegas Sun, referred to the number as "reimagined, inventive, strong and just downright fun". The song's performance at the March 19–20, 2016 shows in Sydney's Allphones Arena was recorded and released on Madonna's fifth live album, Rebel Heart Tour (2017). On June 24, 2022, Madonna performed a mashup of "Material Girl" and Saucy Santana's song of the same name at New York's Terminal 5; she was dressed in a black blazer, while Santana wore a hot pink bow.