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Barry was headed into Manhattan to checkup on the work being done to his second eatery Barry was opening his second 1943 British American Gastro Pub in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan.  The opening date was going to be Friday May 19, 2018. Barry's friend Rob Schuter had walked past an empty store that was for sale. Rob wrote down the phone number and gave it to Barry. He knew Barry was looking to open another 1943 British American Gastro Pub in new York City somewhere. Barry went with Bruce and Rob to checkout the  empty sore for sale. The store fit the bill perfectly.
Barry loved the location and the size of the main floor. So he decided to buy the building for his second gastro pub in New York City. In January Barry was staying an extra week to look at property in London for another gastro pub. He was hoping he'd find the perfect empty building for his third 1943 British American Gastro Pub this time in London. The other cities he had in mind  for his gastro pub was Portland Oregon, Seattle Washington, Denver Colorado, Boston Massachusetts, Montreal Canada, Glasgow Scotland and Melbourne Australia. Those would be the cities besides his flagship Williamsburg location and Manhattan location. He and Cyndi Lauper were almost finished with the Joni Mitchell album they had been working on together. Barry had also seen online a few articles about Brian Murphy wanting to go back to Las Vegas. Now if he thinks he can stay in Las Vegas and not go anywhere else he's sadly mistaken thought Barry. Now the fans who can't afford Las Vegas will be begging him to come do shows outside Las Vegas. Just like they did in two thousand five.
Oh well his choice not mine said Barry.  Carly was still hearing rumors that Barry was heading to
Las Vegas for a residency. Barry was doing a residency all right. However it was not in Las Vegas.
It was in Atlantic City at the Tropicana Casino Resort. Barry had signed with the Tropicana for five years. Two thousand eighteen to two thousand twenty-three. I'm going to be one of their revolving headliners. Besides me they've signed Reba McEntire and Smokey Robinson. We're each doing three months a year. I chose February, June and October. Reba took January, May and September and Smokey took April August and December. There's just March, July and November left. Each of
the three months I'm there I'm doing three weeks with four shows each of those weeks. So that's
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I'm doing the standard ninety minute show. Now the said I could stay longer and do encores. In the past I've played Boardwalk Hall once, Caesars three time Harrah's once and the Tropicana four times. Bruce reminded me that in our musical Copacabana Rico's night club in Havana was called the Tropicana. I'll be doing doing Copacabana and Who Needs To Dream. during  my concerts. Nelly Germaine is creating  colorful jackets with black lapels for Russ, David, Mark, Mike, Ron, Kevin, Rick, Joey, Billy and Kion. The guys will wear black pants, black shirts with their colorful jackets. Now the girls Alana, Dana and Shelly will wear halter dress with full skirts. Doing only three months a year will allow me to do other things. I'll be able to go elsewhere to preform for anyone who can't afford Atlantic City. And do other things Like getting At The Mayflower my new musical off the ground. One thing I won't do that Brian Murphy is doing is charge an arm and leg for tickets. His Westgate tickets will start at fifteen hundred dollars. I talked to my former managers Garry, Marc and my current manager David about how should charge for tickets. We came up with ticket price starting at $500, $450 $375 and $335 for main floor. $250, $200 and $150 for balcony.  Vikki and I are also in the planning stages for a BMIFC It's Just Another New Years Eve weekend next year. It will take place Friday December 28th to Monday December 31st. I'm doing concerts on Saturday December 29th, Sunday December 30th and Monday December 31st. Fans coming to this NYE weekend will get tickets to all three of my shows. Friday night will be the disco party after dinner. Saturday after the concert fans will get to see my 7th annual Because It's Christmas benefit concert that was taped this past Friday night. Also there will be an ice cream sundae bar. Sunday morning at 10:30am we will have our Q&A Brunch With me Barry. Monday night after the show is our New Years Eve party to toast in 2019. Yes I'll be at  Saturday nights video and ice cream sundae bar after the concert. Sundays Q&A brunch and Monday nights NYE party. When we have all our ducky's in a row I'll give you the 411 on our 2018 New Years Eve  weekend said Barry. Right now Barry was doing some decorating for Christmas. This past Saturday he and Carly went to a Christmas tree farm to cut down a fresh tree for the living room. Barry had already put the wreath up on the front door. He had placed the menorah on the dinning room table. He had also popped popcorn to string up with cranberries to put on their tree. Now he was in the kitchen making potato latkes. The latkes recipe belong to his grandmother Esther. His grandmother always added onions to her latkes. She even added cheese to some. The ones with cheese were eaten with fish. In the stove downstairs Barry had piece of corned beef cooking low and slow. The corn beef, latkes with cabbage was for dinner tonight. The leftover corn beef would make some great corn beef sandwiches. Corn beef on Jewish rye with lettuce, tomatoes, onions and whole grain mustard. On the side a couple of pickle spears and some potato chips. Just thinking about that made Barry's mouth water. That was something else Barry needed to make coleslaw. So he marked cabbage down the grocery list he and Carly had started. Barry looked at the kitchen clock. it was now 12:30pm time for lunch. So Barry made himself a grilled cheddar cheese sandwich on marbled rye. He added a bowl of  homemade tomato soup for lunch. Barry had given Carly the last of the cream of broccoli Gruyere soup for her lunch.  Barry remember three more things he needed. That was onions, French bread and more Gruyere cheese. Barry wanted to make some French onion soup. so he wrote those down on the list too. After lunch he checked the mailbox, let the dogs out for a quick business run. Then he left to go grocery shopping. On Christmas Eve he always invited Bruce, Rob, Marc, Andy, Jack, Amy, David, Becky and Vikki for dinner. This year he was having antipasto platter, spinach salad and assorted pizzas. Then for desert Carly was making anisette, biscotti and butter cookies. Barry was doing the cannoli's and the pizzelles. The anise and almond pizzelles  were for everyone to take home with them.