Hi Gang,
It's me Barry here. Well that sure was a super tour across the US. I enjoyed taking the scenic route this time. Going by tour bus was a blast . Now it's on to some new adventures. Which I know you're going to love. Right now I'm in the recording studio with Steve Gadd, Marc Levine, John Pondel, Ron Pedley, Michael Lington and the Manhattan Transfer to record 2:00AM Paradise Café II. Marc Levine, John Pondel and Ron Pedley were one third of the jazz quartet Uncle Festive. I tried to get Bud Harner but he now works as an A&R guy at Verve Records.Then on July 4th I'm in Chicago at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion with the Grant Park Symphony and chorus. I hope see some of you fans there. Starting on Monday August third it's rehearsals for Here At The Mayflower the musical. Then on Sunday September sixth Carly and I are getting married. Carly and I will be on our honeymoon till Sunday September twentieth. On Tuesday September twenty-nine Here At The Mayflower opens for previews. Then on Sunday October twenty-fifth it's opening night for Here At The Mayflower. Now this is where plans have changed. The few shows here in the states and Canada tour have been canceled. Yes I hear the groans from the peanut gallery. But just listen up you might like this even better. First off I'm doing some talk shows to promote 2:00AM Paradise Café II which will be out on December fifteen. I'll be on GMA, The View Rachel Ray, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Ellen. When I do Rachel Ray I'll be her cohost. Little does she know I've already talked to her producers about doing her what's for dinner segment. Should be a blast. since I'm cooking for her and her hubby John. Now the Borgata Hotel and Casino uses their Music Box sometimes as a comedy club. It seems they decided to quit using the comedy club out of the theatre. And instead they've decided to put a headliner in the theatre. Now guess who's been asked to be their first headliner me. Yes little old me Barry Manilow. I know I'm not little at six foot tall. I might be old but not that old. Plus I still got it at twenty-seven LOL!! I put my John Hancock on the dotted line for the next five years to headline at The Music Box theatre. I'll be there ten months out of each year. Each month I'll be there for three weeks doing four shows each week I'm there. That's Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Now that's a grand total of one hundred and twenty shows a year. Tickets will go on sale starting Wednesday October 8th through the fan club for next year. Tickets are one hundred and thirty- five, ninety-five, seventy-five and forty-five. I'm not like Brian Murphy who charges an arm and leg just for fans to see him. Now when he played Las Vegas did you all know to sit down in the first five rows cost three hundred and ninety-five dollars Oh and platinum's were two thousand five hundred just to go backstage and meet him. It's a wonder his fans could afford tickets at all with those kind of prices. Now I will be doing my sneaky meet and greets after each show. When I mean sneaky meet and greets I mean I send David Taylor my personal assistant out to scan the audience. Then David randomly picks four lucky fans to come backstage after each show. The lucky four will get to chat with me, have their picture taken with me, get a camera with photos of our chat and an autographed program. Brian Murphy's fans paid two thousand five hundred to do that and your getting that for nothing. Right and would Brian post a message like this on his Facebook page. Hell No! I don't think he's in it for the fans Meaning he's not make music to make the fans feel good like I am. Now I'm thinking maybe in two thousand sixteen or two thousand seventeen there will be a fan club convention in Atlantic City. So send me or the fan club your suggestions for stuff to do during the convention. As always I'll show up for the brunch and Q&A on the last day of the convention. Maybe we should do the convention during the month of June. So you can help me celebrate either my seventy-third or seventy-fourth birthday depending on which year we have the convention. Since I'll be there from February two thousand sixteen to December two thousand and twenty. Heck maybe we should have a convention in June all five years I'm There. Then you can help me celebrate my seventy-third, seventy-fourth, seventy-fifth, seventy-sixth and seventy-seventh birthdays. Well I got to go. I really mean I got to go to the bathroom. Plus take let the dogs out. Talk to you soon.
Love and sloppy wet kiss,
Barry
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