Singer Barry Manilow examined constructive for COVID-19 on April 13, 2022.
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He’s in excellent “Concord“
Wednesday, my telephone rings. A voice says: “Hello. It’s Barry Manilow.” Barry Manilow on my telephone once I’m sitting in my kitchen inhaling a tuna salad sandwich on raisin bread with mayo?
Second voice: “That is Bruce Sussman. I really had dinner subsequent to you latterly in Fresco.”
So what? So have 90 different overeaters I don’t know. Who're you?
That voice says, “Barry and I, lifetime mates, we created the brand new musical ‘Concord.’ Simply opened at Nationwide Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.” A bell rang. It’s a mission I’ve written about and identified about endlessly.
Barry: “This story we’ve labored on for 100 years is about six younger proficient guys in Nineteen Twenties Germany. Nice harmonies, old school Marx Brothers sort humor. However beneath the vaudeville razzmatazz is a tragic story. No person remembers them. Again then no one ever heard of anybody. Lastly, Bruce and I are on the end line with this musical about them. It’s ‘Concord.’ ”
Bruce: “Years again, I noticed an previous dusty subtitled reel about them and was so excited seeing their story that — that is lengthy earlier than we had cellphones — I fast discovered a pay telephone downtown on Lafayette Road, known as Barry and mentioned, ‘Pay attention, now we have to do that.’ ”
Barry: “Right here’s one thing you gained’t consider. The lead character, then in his 90s, lived — in case you can consider this — proper close to me in Palm Springs. Who knew? I walked my canine instantly in entrance of his home by no means understanding. Right here I'm writing a present about this man who lived precisely three blocks from me and who knew it. I’m spending years creating songs about this aged character I didn’t even know and by no means met. After I lastly met him and stepped into his home I burst into tears. He’s gone now. He was 98.”
Half Two of the story.
En-route to Wednesday’s opening Barry Manilow was identified with COVID. Couldn’t go to the theater, backstage or the social gathering.
He mentioned: “After engaged on this present for years and years, that is essentially the most merciless factor that would ever occur to me.”
Designer trash
TODAY everyone, even a no one, is a busybody. Sufficient with designer labels. Quickly comes Calvin Klein nasal spray, perhaps Saint Laurent arch helps, let’s search for Kardashian-designed aspirin, and after Ye does customized earrings, what subsequent — Ex-Lax by Gucci?
Holidays are enjoyable, proper?
Indicators you is perhaps at a Republican seder: 1. Refuse to reply the 4 questions with no subpoena. 2. Demand a recount of the ten plagues. 3. No minimal wage improve as a result of shopping for a goat now may be very low-cost. 4. The afikomen is hidden within the Cayman Islands. 5. No open door for Elijah till they see his immigration papers. 6. They assault Moses for negotiating with Pharaoh, as a result of we don’t negotiate with our enemies. 7. Don’t perceive why Egyptians didn’t remedy the plagues with hydroxychloroquine. 8. They omit Haggadah components about slavery which remind them of Essential Race Principle. 9. Gefilte fish is changed by tomato aspic. 10. The seder ends by singing “Subsequent yr in Mar-a-Lago.”
The invoice’s yours
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DRUNKS on railroad monitor: One: “Too many steps.” Pal: “Overlook the steps. The low railing bothers me.”
Solely at NY’s Penn Station, youngsters, solely at NY’s Penn Station.
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