Back On The Road Again.

Barry was back on the road again This time he was doing some concerts to benefit people affected by
hurricanes Irma and Note. So he was going down the east coast from North Carolina to Florida. Then from the Florida panhandle to Louisiana. Barry and company were in Columbia South Carolina for Monday nights concert in Columbia. From there it was onward to Atlanta, Pensacola, Birmingham, Tupelo and New Orleans. Back home again for the Because It's Christmas benefit concert on Sunday December 10th at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn. Barry invited his friend Cyndi Lauper to join him. He had called Joni Mitchell's manager to see if she was well enough to join him too. Her manager got back to Barry and said she would be there with jingle bells on. So Barry worked out two duets. He and Cyndi would duet on Baby It's Cold Outside. Then he and Joni would duet on her song River. Barry did get a phone call from Marc. Marc was in the middle of doing some damage control along with Barry's manager David Taylor Marc Hulett was now the head of Stiletto Entertainment East. Kirsten Kief who had taken over Stiletto Entertainment after her dad Garry decided to retire. Made the decision to add Stiletto Entertainment office in New York since they had a lot of clients who lived on the east coast including Barry. So Marc went from being Barry's personal assistant to his manager to the head of Stiletto Entertainment East. Marc and David were getting very  tired of the gay issue constantly being brought up by Suzie and Scott. Suzie was the one who gave The National Enquirer the false information on Barry being gay. She also went on Andy Cohen's Bravo talk show to confirm that Barry was gay. That was something Barry didn't need to deal with at that time. Because at that
time he and his fiancé Carly were in the middle of their wedding planning.  How macho did Barry have to be before Suzie would believe that Barry was straight.  Barry always reminded his fans of a true gentleman. The kind of guy their mothers would love. Barry was also a very sexy guy. His fans kept wishing People Magazine would put Barry on the cover of their "Sexiest Man Alive" issue. They also wished Barry would be on the cover of G.Q.'s The Men Of The Year issue. Why? Because with Barry's fashion style, good looks, personality and total sexiness Barry was the complete package.  He  was the kind of guy women loved to stare at. Six foot tall one hundred and sixty-five pounds, light brown hair and baby blue eyes. Barry was  total eye candy in every female fans book. Yes fans did catch Barry's legs in shorts. Cycling, running, denim, cargo and cut-off were the short styles that he wore. Barry liked to bicycle, hike, mountain biking and running as his favorite healthy activities.  So at seventy-four Barry still had loads of energy to burn. Unlike Brian Murphy who had zero energy to burn. No wonder Brian had decided to slow down at seventy-one.  Being under weight didn't help either. Barry would have run in todays New York City marathon. Barry had run in the New York City marathon in the past. As well as the Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston marathons. Back in 2010
Barry came in third place in the New York City marathon.  Last summer while on tour Barry did his usual every other day bicycling and running. Last year when Barry went on tour he brought his Cylo Urban bicycle so he go bicycling. Barry loved to stay active. That's what kept him physical fit. Now tonight was the Columbia South Carolina concert. Barry had tweaked his concert a bit. He decided to start out the show with It's A Miracle which was Brian Murphy signature opening song. Barry took the version that he gave Brian and tweaked that slightly. Barry had been asked why he didn't give out glow sticks at his concerts like Brian Murphy did? Barry said his wife Carly had gone with some of her friends to see Brian Murphy at the Prudential Center in Newark NJ. As always glow sticks were handed out in the lobby prior to entering the arena. During Brian's intro number his fans would shake their glow sticks. Someone sitting a little further back shook their glow stick. It flew out of their hand and hit Carly hard on the back of her head. She ended up with a huge bump on the back of her head. That's why I don't pass out or allow glow sticks at my concerts. I don't want anyone getting hurt with one of those things said Barry. Barry did find a great alternative to the glow sticks. Barry noticed that his fans like to put their hands in the air and wave them  from side to side. He got the idea for glow bans that fans could wear around their wrists. That way no one would get hurt by a flying glow stick. While in Columbia South Carolina Barry got a phone call from Carly. Carly wanted to know if Barry got the two photos she sent him to his phone. Photo one was the sign for Charlie's Rescue her animal shelter. Photo two was Carly's new puppy a Red Fox Labrador Retriever. He was nine month old male that Carly named Aji Rojo or Aji for short. Because of his red coat color Carly decided to name him after the Aji Rojo pepper.

Google+ Post 2018 Schedule Revision

Hi Gang It's me Barry once again. There's been a revision in next years 2018 schedule.  Some new things have been added. January Benefit Anti Bulling concert with other artists at O2 London. Book
signing for Williamsburg autobiography in some cities through the UK. . Williamsburg Tour two nights at the O2. June  album and book signing for Williamsburg album and signing for Williamsburg autobiography. Signing albums and books in all the Australian and New Zealand cities I'm doing concerts in.  Last year while I was doing five nights at Red Rocks Amphitheater the Saturday and Sunday night concerts were going to be audio and video taped for a four disc box set containing two CD's and two DVD's. However my sound guy Ken Newman had  emergency gallbladder surgery. So we canceled the tapings. I still want to do the audio and video taping. So next August I'm doing two nights at the Ravinia Festival. That's Tuesday August 28th and Wednesday August 29th. Tickets for those two concerts will go on sale in January. More later on the exact date the tickets will go sale.
 As for 2019 I some ideas for things I want to do. One is a duets album. I can hear the peanut gallery groaning right now. A duets album Barry are you nuts? No I'm not nuts. Right now I'm writing songs with some of my favorite female singer songwriters. Alanis Morrissette, Alicia Keys, Bonnie Raitt, Carol King, Corinne Bailey Rae, Cyndi Lauper, Gwen Stefani, Joni Mitchell, K.D. Lang, Lisa Loeb, Melissa Manchester, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow and Tracy Chapman are the songwriters I'm writing with. I may also do some concerts in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Iceland and Greenland. Now the really big news for 2019 Harmony is being turned into a movie musical. Yes you heard me. Harmony is coming to the big screen in early 2020. Now Bruce
Sussman and me are writing a few more songs for our musical Harmony. So starting in September  2019 Bruce and are headed off to Berlin Germany for the start of  filming. The location shoots for the movie will be Berlin Germany, London England, New York New York and Hollywood California. Bruce and I are over the moon about this. Never did either one of us think that Harmony would ever become a movie musical for the big screen. When I told Garry about this he said "Oscars here comes Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman. Harmony definitely Oscar worthy." We shall see Garry. I'm not holing my breath neither is Bruce. The rest of my partners Adrienne, Enoch, Jack and Marty are so thrilled for me and Bruce. Once Harmony is finished there will be two premier opening nights. One will take place in New York City and the other in Berlin Germany. Bruce and I are inviting The Comedian Harmonists relatives to both premiers. All of them came to New York City when Harmony opened on Broadway back in 2006. They loved our musical. Let me get going. Road trip Hurricane Irma Benefit concerts. See you somewhere down the road in the cities we're performing in.
Love and sloppy wet kisses,
Barry

Google+ Post

Hi Gang it's me Barry with some exiting news. As most of you remember last June during the five nights at Red Rocks Amphitheater. I was going to audio and video tape both Saturday July 8th and Sunday July 9th for a four disc box set. Two CD's and two DVD's. Now my usual audio guy Ken Newman had emergency gallbladder surgery. So I had to cancel the audio and video recording of the Saturday and Sunday shows. Now I still want to record my Williamsburg Tour for a four disc CD and DVD box set. Something I also want to do is to go back to the Ravinia Festival. The last time I was there was 29 years ago in 1990 when I brought my Showstoppers Tour to Chicago for two nights on Tuesday August 28th and Wednesday August 29th. So next year 2019 I'm going back to the Ravinia Festival for two nights Tuesday August 28th and Wednesday August 29th. Tickets for these concerts  will go on sale come Monday October 30th at 10AM eastern time. Both of these two concerts will be audio and video recorded for a four disc box set. Two CD's and two DVD's. Tickets start at $150. Hope to see you fans there.
Barry.

Ask Barry? Column

Hi Gang It's me Barry. Time for another Ask Barry? Q&A session.
Mary Anne Morbly asks What singer, duo or group would you love to record a song with?
Barry Next year I'm doing a concert with a bunch of other recording artists to benefit the anti bulling campaign "Say No To Bulling." The benefit concert will take place on Saturday January 6, 2018 at London's O2 arena. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is going to be on stage performing with all of us artists. A bunch of us recording got to pick other artists we wanted to perform on stage with. Like Sir. Paul McCartney gets to perform with U2 on the Beatle's tune Hey Jude. I'm on stage with Cyndi Lauper and we're doing a duet on her song True Colors. K.T. Tunstall is doing a duet with Tears For Fears on their song Shout. Bruno Mars and Sr. Elton John on Your Song. Also other artists doing duets with their favorite recording artists. At the end of the two hour concert all of us will come out on stage to sing John Lennon's Imagine. I get the honor of playing piano during that song. The entire concert is being recorded live for the album called I Am Somebody. Yes I Am Somebody Not A Nobody and I have feelings too.  Cyndi Lauper and I are one day going to record an album together. We met on my Live By Request Christmas Special years back. We've been friends ever since. I think her pink hair is kind of cool.

Susan Schaefer asks Is there anywhere you haven't performed that you'd like to?
Barry I recently got a letter from a fan named Ineke who lives in Reykjavik Iceland. Ineke asked if I was ever going to come to Reykjavik Iceland? I sent Ineke a personal letter telling her that I was actually looking into performing in Reykjavik Iceland. Also some other Canadian Provinces. Such has Halifax Nova Scotia, Fredericton New Brunswick, Charlottetown Prince Edward Island and St. John New Brunswick. Also Nuuk Greenland and Reykjavik Iceland. I told her that when I did the concerts in these places it would be during the summer of 2019. I sent Ineke an autographed vinyl copy of my latest album Williamsburg. With that I also sent her two tickets to my One Night Only Williamsburg Benefit concert at the Barclay Center on Sunday December 10th. The concert benefits Charlie's Rescue, The Manilow Music Project and The One Voice Foundation. I figured she might want to bring a Barry Buddy with her to see the show.

Patty Lane asks What kind of album can we expect from you in the near future?
Barry I want to do an original duets album. I want to do duets with Alanis Morrissette, Alicia Keys,
Cyndi Lauper, Carol King, Melissa Manchester, Corinne Bailey Rae and Gwen Stefani. All of these ladies are great songwriters. So I love to write a song with each one of them. I have my Putting It Together The Songs of Stephen Sondheim album. I did a duet on Somewhere with Cyndi Lauper. Some reporter asked me why I didn't do the duet with Barbra Streisand. I told him Brian Murphy is friends with her not me. There is also my Only In Chicago album that's half finished. One thing that
I want to do is to play the Ravinia Festival again. Next year 2018 I'm doing two nights at the Ravinia festival. The dates are Tuesday August 28th and Wednesday August 29th. The last time I played at the Ravinia Festival was in 1990 on Tuesday August 28th and Wednesday August 29th 1990. That was 29 years when I brought my Showstoppers Tour to Ravinia. Both nights will be recorded live for the Williamsburg Tour Live four disc box set. Two disc live album and two disc DVD's. This year while I played Red Rocks Amphitheater I wanted to audio and video tape the two weekend shows. Saturday July 8th and Sunday July 9th. However my usual recording engineer Ken Newman had to have emergency gallbladder surgery then. So I had to cancel the recording equipment that was going to be used at Red Rocks Amphitheater to record the those two shows for the four disc Williamsburg Tour Live Album and DVD box set. Thanks to Mary Anne, Susan and Patty for their questions. Keep those questions  coming everyone.
Love,
Barry

1943 British American Gastro Pub

Welcome to 1943 British American gastro pub my new gastro pub in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. 1943 is a British and American gastro pub that serve gastro pub grub. 1943 is located in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Above is what the sign above the front door looks like. Now1943 serves British and American gastro pub grub. Most of the time there are two cooks at 1943 Michael Reilly and Dennis Harmon. Michael is from the UK and he cooks the British gastro pub grub. Dennis is an American cook who makes all the American gastro pub grub. Michael and Dennis
are 1943's regular cooks. We serve British and American ales and micro brews. What we do not serve domestic American beers. Like Budweiser, Coors, Michelob. Samuel Addams and ETC. Brooklyn Lager from Brooklyn Brewery in Brooklyn NY is the only domestic US bear we sell. Once in a while you might find me in the kitchen cooking up some of the gastro pub grub. You can go on line to 1943's website1943britishamerican dote come to se our extensive gastro -pub grub menu. I hope you fans will stop in to 1943 for a bite. 1943 is open seven days a week Sunday through Saturday from 11:00AM to 3:00AM.

The Latest News

Ok! Here's all the latest news on the Brian and Barry. Brian was in  the recording studio to record My Dream Duets II. His second duets album. Brian would be singing with living artists this time around. Another one of Clive Davis' ideas no doubt. Brian was recording for RCA Records now. He was also getting ready to do his Gift Of Love IV concerts at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Springs. Then his three holiday concerts in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York in December. Next year Wednesday January 25th and Thursday January 26th Mexico City show. Then also nest year South American and Asia .  Possibly more shows at Los Angeles Forum, Chicago Allstate Arena and Nassau Coliseum. Then February, March and April three weeks worth of weekend shows Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Westgate Hotel and Casino.  On Saturday October 21st Barry filled another thing off his bucket list. By opening his British American gastro pub called 1943. November was concerts for hurricane relief  in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.  One weeks worth of benefit concert at Radio City Music Hall in December benefiting Charlie's Rescue, The Manilow Music Project and The One Voice Foundation. December 30th and December 31st would be spent in Montreal Canada doing two concerts at Centere Bell. BMIFC New Years Party Weekend Friday December 29th, Saturday December 30th and Sunday December 31st. January 2018 for Barry Manilow's Williamsburg autobiography. Two Williamsburg Tour concerts at London's O2.  At The Mayflower regional runs. March and April San Antonio Majestic Theatre. September and  
October Philadelphia Forrest Theatre. Williamsburg Tour down under in  June 2018  Australia and New Zealand. BMIFC's first ever convention down under in Melbourne Australia. London England  two weeks 1worth of concerts from Sunday December 23, 2018 thru Saturday January 5, 2019. With Sunday December 23, 2018  concert being a benefit for The Prince's Trust Fund. So far 2019 has promised to be filled with a new original material album and fall album signing and tour to promote it. Also fingers crossed At The Mayflower opening on Broadway. Because of the passing of Joseph Bologna. Instead of Esther passing away Joe will have passed away. The song I Miss You will be Esther singing about missing her husband Joe instead of Joe singing about missing Esther.

Ask Barry? Column.

Hi Gang It's me Barry and I'm resurrecting my Ask Barry? column once again. Todays questions are from Vicki Smith, Kathy Rooney Henry, Janice Primavara, Pamela Height and Rita Zucker.
Vicki asks
Barry I know you run every other day. What brand of running shoes do you wear?
Barry Well Vicki  I did wear Nike brand for a short while. However they bothered my feet a lot. So I went back to wearing Adidas brand running shoes. I have three pairs of Adidas running shoes right now. I have Adidas Galaxy Elite  blue and white. Adidas Ultra Boost aqua, blue and orange. Adidas Ultra Boost ST. Grey and Navy. Most running shoes are only good for six to seven months of running. However they're still good for bicycling, mowing the lawn, walking and wearing around the house.  Now that's how I keep my 6'0" 165lbs frame in such great shape. Oh and BW my shoe size is 13D.

Kathy asks
What other types of exercise do you do besides running? 
Barry Besides running I like to go bicycling, mountain biking, swimming and walking  Now I'm sure you want to know what kinds of bicycles I have. I have a Rocky Mountain Altitude carbon mountain bicycle. That one's purple, blue, gold with black tires. My other bicycle is a Cylo One Urban bicycle. That one's black with white tires. Yes Barry goes mountain biking. I'm sure someone started freaking out when I mentioned mountain biking. Now this past summer while I was on tour I packed my mountain bike onto one of trailer trucks. On free days that's what I did I went mountain biking when we were near any mountains. I did do that after my five night run at Red Rocks Amphitheater outside of Denver. I took my mountain bike and I did mountain biking up around Red Rocks. The scenery up there is breathtaking.  I've also gone mountain biking up in Aspen with my friend John Denver.

Janice asks
Is there anything that we don't know about you that might surprise us?
Barry Most of you know that I got my bachelors, masters and doctorate from Julliard Music School. I triple majored in arranging, conducting and orchestration. My minor was piano. Then what most of you know is I am a good cook. I had to learn to cook after I divorced Susan. A man can't continually go out to eat. Or eat caned and frozen food all the time. I taught myself how to cook. I some of my grandmothers recipes. Like her roast chicken,  pot roast, all of her cookie recipes and some others.  Then in 1992 I took the bull by the horns and decided to go to culinary school. So I enrolled at the CIA. You did what? Barry. You enrolled at the CIA. But the CIA is part of the US government. How could you enroll in the government? I didn't enroll in the government. The CIA is also short for The Culinary Institute of America which is in Hyde Park New York. I graduated in 1997 with a bachelors degree in culinary arts. I was top in my graduating class.  The other thing you fans don't know is I've been working on getting my gastro pub opened called BARRY'S British American Gastro Pub in Williamsburg. It will open on Saturday October 21st. The food is British and American pub fare.

Rita asks
What are some of your favorite cities and states to visit?
Barry some of my favorite states besides New York are Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont. New Hampshire, Michigan, Texas. Colorado, Oregon and Washington. Now my favorite cities beside New York City are East Hampton, Albany, Saratoga Springs, Lake George, Lake Luzerne,  Boston Cape Cod Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, Portland ME, Burlington , Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Travers City. Denver, Bolder Aspen, Austin, San Antonio, Portland OR, Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver BC, Toronto OT, Montreal QB, Quebec QB and all of Nova Scotia. I use to like California however it got too celebrity for me.  From San Diego to San Francisco California is loaded with celebs and people who love to finger point. Their pointing fingers at people they think are gay like me. I got a lot of finger pointing at me while I lived in both LA and Palm Springs. Prior to moving out west I never got the finger pointing while living here in NYC.

Pamela asks
Who are some of the famous people you've met over the years?
Barry My famous friends are Bette Midler, Alanis Morrisette, Melissa Manchester, Cyndi Lauper, Carole King Annie Lenox, Dave Benoit, Chris Botti, Brian Culbertson, Ray Charles, John Denver, Benny Goodman, Kenny G., Billy Joel, Dave Koz and Richard Marx. After graduating from culinary school I got to meet Anne Burrell, Rachel Ray, Ina Garten, Bobby Flay, Michael Simon and Mario Batali.   I also got my culinary arts degree in 1997 from  The Culinary Institute of America. I was top
in my class. I was married for a year and four months to my first wife. After we got divorced I had to do for myself. Well eating out, eating canned and frozen dinners was not going to cut it. So I had to learn how to cook real meals. Which is what I did after I got recipes from my grandma. My mom thought her son (me) was nuts for going to school to get my culinary arts degree. But I could hear my grandma saying go for it Barry.

Thanks for the great question gang. Until next week's Ask Barry? column. Keep those questions coming everyone. I love answering your questions.
Barry