Barry Manilow examined optimistic for COVID on Wednesday -- the identical night time his new musical "Concord" was set to open off-Broadway.
Julieta Cervantes
Barry Manilow examined optimistic for COVID on Wednesday — the identical night time his new musical “Concord” was set to open off-Broadway.
“This simply could be the cruelest factor that has ever occurred to me: 25 years ready for this present to premiere in New York and I can’t attend,” the “Copacabana” singer, 78, stated in an announcement.
Nonetheless, he stated his viewers can smile with out him.
Whereas Manilow is unable to attend the present he wrote with longtime collaborator Bruce Sussman, the opening night time efficiency will go as deliberate on the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park Metropolis.
The musical is a few sexted of German singers (half of whom had been Jewish) within the Thirties, and the issues that arose for them through the rise of the Nazi social gathering.
“Even within the face of this pandemic, we New Yorkers stay the hardest, staunchest folks on the planet — so, placed on a masks and go see a present!”
Manilow additionally referred to as out from his live performance on the Westgate’s Worldwide Theater in Las Vegas on the final minute final Saturday with what his supervisor and husband Garry Kief advised the Las Vegas Assessment Journal was “in all probability only a chilly.”
“Concord” runs by way of Could 8 off-Broadway.
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