Revamp on 2018 Calendar Schedule

Hi Gang

It's me Barry with some revisions on next years calendar schedule. Also some very exciting news for next year. Starting in January I'm off to the UK. Anti-bulling concert. Book signing for Williamsburg autobiography. Three concerts at the O2 arena. I added one extra concert do to popular demand. I'm going to be on the Grammy Awards. Me and Cyndi Lauper and I are doing a duet on the song Big Yellow Taxi from her up coming Joni Mitchell album. February I'm off. March and April At The Mayflower first regional run Majestic Theatre San Antonio TX. May I'm off. June Australia and New Zealand Williamsburg Tour. BMIFC Melbourne Convention. July/August I'm off. September and October At The Mayflower second regional run at The Forest Theatre Philadelphia PA. November What you all have been asking me for the sequel to my first jazz album 2:00AM Paradise Café. So Thursday November 15, 2018 2:00AM Paradise Café II is being released. 2:00AM Paradise Café was my first ever record album. I was totally surprised when It went straight to number one on Billboards Hot 200 Album Chart. Also when it was certified quadruple platinum when it came out, That's was the start of my recording career and I haven't looked back. Nor have I regretted one single minute since then. Thank you everyone for being a part of this incredible journey in my career as recording artist. December Get ready everyone I'm gong back out on tour again. This time with my Paradise Café II Tour to promote my 2:00AM Paradise Café II album. I'll be doing the theaters in Canada, US and UK starting in December 2018. As you all know I made the Inqusitr and Radar Online. The Inqusitr is totally false. Radar Online is actually photos of Brian Murphy and Gregory Knofler. You're looking at Brian and Gregory's backsides. Radar Online is claiming that's me and Garry which it's not. For a special Christmas Eve and Christmas Day treat BTV is sharing two concert videos you're all going to love. Christmas Eve Thursday July 6th my Williamsburg concert from Red Rocks Amphitheater.  Christmas Day Sunday December 10th  7th annual Because It's Christmas benefit concert. Then on Wednesday February 14, 2018 I'm putting out for my favorite Valentines you fans a five DVD disc and booklet box set. That is all five of my Red Rocks Amphitheater concerts and a booklet filled with photos from the five nights at Red Rocks Amphitheater. Plus photo from the BMIFC Saturday dinner picnic. So they'll be candid photos from Saturday's barbeque. That was when I got chewed out for eating a hot dog. Barry you're Jewish so you can't eat pork. I said it's a Vienna all beef hot dog. Vienna come from Chicago and boy are they good. I like mine traditional Chicago style hot dog.  Chicago style is a poppy seed hot dog bun, Vienna all beef hot dog. yellow mustard, onions, relish, dill pickle spear, tomato wedges and a dash of celery salt. I actually ate two of them they were so good. Then for Christmas 2018 I'm working on a seven DVD disc box set with a booklet containing on stage photos from all seven benefit concerts. I've been doing the Because It's Christmas benefits since 2010. It's my way of giving back to animals in need and kids who could use a new musical instrument. To those of you who've bee crabbing about the 2018 Barry Manilow calendar. When is it coming out? I paid for mine and I haven't received mine yet. The calendars were shipped out starting last Friday. So those of you who ordered one be on the lookout for yours. Twelve  very candid photos of me. Yes you will see my legs in bicycle  and running shorts. As well as jeans and other casual wear. Zero concert shots in next years calendar. I've even included the doggies Maggie, Max and Thunder into one of the photos. Thunder is a cream colored male Labrador Retriever that belongs to Carly. We also added another furry member to our family. His name is Tucker and he's a seven month old all white Bull Terrier. I put up a photo of Maggie Max, Thunder and Tucker on my Google Plus page. I'm still getting email from Facebook begging me to come back. No way Jose am

I going back there after they wouldn't let me in. Sorry but I don't give just anyone my mobile phone number. Who knows who they'll give it out to. I hope your all enjoying the holiday issue of the Barry Gram. Vikki and I have been working on stuff to put in the 2018 BMIFC membership kits. We did do a refrigerator magnet with all our contact information. Email addresses, phone numbers, snails mail addresses and website addresses. So you'll be in the know for next year. Plus a few other goodies you're going to love. To my Jewish fans Happy Hanukkah. To my  black fans Happy Kwanzaa and to everyone else Merry Christmas.

Love,

Barry

Viva Las Vegas?

 Jacqueline one of Carly's friends called her up to do some major venting. Jacqueline was in Palm Springs with Kathy, Deanna and Mary for Brian Murphy's Christmas benefit concerts. Brian's five
shows were taking place at the McCallum Theatre. His shows were Wednesday December 12th, Thursday December 13th, Sunday December 17th, Monday December 18th and Tuesday December 19th. Brian was not doing shows on Friday December 15thand Saturday December 16th. Those two days he would be Las Vegas with his manager Gregory Knofler. That was for talks with the Westgate Casino Resort. The reason Jacqueline called Carly was to tell her that  at Sunday nights show Brian told the audience he had not signed with the Westgate Casino Resort in Las Vegas. A big "on no." came from the audience. Brian went on to explain that he wanted to do only six months in Las Vegas. Either January, March, May, July, September and November. Or February, April, June, August, October and December. Then it would be month 1 three weeks, month 2 two weeks, month 3 three weeks, month 4 two weeks, month five three weeks and month 6 two weeks. Each week Brian was there he would do Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Late last year Brian had signed long term contracts with The Forum Los Angeles, Allstate Arena Rosemont and Nassau Coliseum Uniondale. He had also just signed two more contracts for Foxwood Casino Mashantucket and Caesars Casino Windsor. Brain did not want to break those five long term contracts that he had signed. However chairman and CEO of the Wesatgate  David A. Siegel wanted Brian to be there for not six months but for twelve..
He also wanted Brian to do four nights instead of three. The only thing he agreed to was three weeks one month and two weeks the next. Brian told David A. Siegel no because he was not going to give up the five contracts he signed with The Forum, Allstate Arena. Nassau Coliseum, Caesars Canada and Foxwood. Brain wanted time for himself. Also time off for his band and backup singers so they could do other things. Of course Brian's fans were very upset that he said no to a Westgate residency Jacqueline said I know Barry signed a contract with the Tropicana in Atlantic City. So what's up with that? What's up with that is the Tropicana wants to try what Caesars Palace has done in Las Vegas said Carly. Caesars Palace has four rotating headliners. Celine Dion, Elton John Rod Stewart and Shania Twain. Celine, Elton, Rod and Shania  each do three months throughout each year. Now the Tropicana has three revolving headliners so far are Reba Mc Entire, Barry and Smokey Robinson, Barry chose February, June and October for his three months at the Tropicana.  Three weeks each month with four days each week. That allows Barry time to do other things. Write new songs, record original material albums. get his latest musical up and running and also do concerts outside of Atlantic City. So far  his schedule is January UK, March/April, San Antonio TX first regional run for new musical,  June Australia/New Zealand, September/October second regional run for new musical Philadelphia PA. Barry just sent the album he ands Eddie Arkin produced for Cyndi Lauper to the mastering studios. The album is called Cyndi Lauper  The Music Of Joni Mitchell. Barry and Cyndi did two duets on the album Big Yellow Taxi and River. Cyndi's alum comes out Tuesday March 21, 2018. Then on Wednesday November 15, 2018 Barry's long a waited second jazz album 2:00AM Paradise Café II is being released.  So Wednesday November 15th the day the album is being released. Barry is doing an album signing at Rough Trade Records in Brooklyn from 1pm to 4pm. That evening Barry will be at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts at Rose Theatre. Barry is doing an album debut for 2:00AM Paradise Café II.  Barry got Uncle Festive back together one more time to be on the album. The guys also agreed to perform with Barry Wednesday November 15 the night he debuts his new album. Uncle Festive consisted of Bud Harner  drums, Marc Levine bass, John Pondel guitar and Ron Pedley keyboards. Barry had his Concord Record label mate and friend Kenny G. on the album. As well as the jazz vocal quartet The Manhattan Transfer on this album. Now on November 15, 2018 Uncle Festive, Kenny G. and The Manhattan Transfer will be on stage at the Rose Theatre with Barry. This year it's Centre Bell in Montreal Canada for NYW. That's Saturday December 30th and Sunday December 31st. The BMIFC is having their annual NYE party weekend Friday December 29th, thru Sunday December 31st up in Montreal. This past Sunday Barry's seventh annual Because It's Christmas benefit was sold out. The tickets for the benefit sold out in less than fifteen minutes. That's why Kathy couldn't get tickets for her, you, Shelly and Kim. Besides Shelly and Kim can't sit anywhere else but front row dead center. Shelly always has to have eye contact with Barry when she see him.  She loves to tell everyone that Barry gives her eye contact. Really Shelly I try not to look at you if your in the front row said Barry to himself.

Barry Gram and ETC.

The holiday issue 2017 of the Barry Gram should be on it's way to your mailboxes. This issue of the

Barry Gram will contain a behind the scenes look at the making of Both Sides Now "The Best of Joni

 Mitchell" Cyndi Lauper album. That's the album that I am working on with one of my good friends Cyndi Lauper. Cyndi and I have recorded two duets for the album Big Yellow Taxi and River. A little background information on how Cyndi Lauper and I became good friends. The latest on my Tropicana residency in Atlantic City NJ. An introduction to Charlie's Rescue another one of the charities I support. This one was started by my wife Dr. Carly Manilow DVM. New holiday and Williamsburg merchandise. Plus so much more. Carly and I just added a new member to our furry family. He was brought into Charlie's Rescue by his owner. There were eight puppies total in the litter. The owner of the momma dog said nobody wanted the little puppy. The owner also said he

was the smallest of the eight puppies. So that means he's the runt of the litter. Dr. Houston checked

him out just to make sure he was ok. Dr. Houston thought there was something different about him. Just to make sure Dr. Houston ran some blood work and a few other tests. Dr. Houston determined the puppy had dwarfism. Meaning that the puppy was a dwarf bull terrier. Instead of a normal sized bull terrier. So he won't get much bigger than he already is. His color is all white and his ears stick straight up. His owner had give him the temporary name of Yoda after the Jedi master in the Star Wars movies. She said we could change his named if we didn't like it. I'm not a really big fan of

science fiction. Brian Murphy is the one who likes Star Trek, Star Wars and ETC. Back in the seventies Brian was the Mike Douglas Show. He brought with him his tribble and Spock Vulcan

ears. I heard he has a huge collection of Star Trek and Star Wars memorabilia. Now I collect vinyl records. Big Band, Broadway show tune albums, classical, jazz, rock and roll and vocalists. Some of my vinyl is autographed by the artist, Broadway cast and groups who recorded them.  The most humbling or thrilling thing take your pick is that Stephen Sondheim came to opening night of Here

At The Mayflower last year. He came backstage to meet the cast and songwriters. Told us he loved our musical. He even asked for an autographed cast album when it came out.  On opening night of

Here At The Mayflower there was a who's who of famous Broadway songwriters on the audience.

More News

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.

Ask Barry?

Hi Gang,
It's me Barry again. It's time for another round of Ask Barry? questions.
Ally Munson asks Barry Have you ever gone to a concert where you got invited on stage to perform with the artist you went to see?

Barry Yes I did get invited on stage. In May of this year Carly and I went to Philadelphia for a little weekend get away. What I didn't know was Carly had gotten tickets to see Tears For Fears at the Hoagie National Festival on Friday May 27th. We were sitting in section two row B. One of Tears For Fears people told the guys I was a huge fan of theirs and that I was in the audience. I got invited on stage at the end to sing their song Shout with them. When I got up there I told Roland and Curtis I could play the song on the piano. So I got to both play piano and sing on Shout with the guys. What a thrill that was.

Deborah Wilson asks Barry who are some of your favorite contemporary groups and singers?
Barry as for groups I like Aerosmith, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Fleetwod Mac, Foo Fighters, Genesis, Nickleback and U2. Female singers. Cyndi Lauper, Melissa Manchester, Anne Lenox, Carol King, Joni Mitchell, Roberta Flack, Bette Midler Bonnie Ratt and Stevie Nicks. Male singers Billy Joel, Richard Marx, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Bruce Hornsby, Darius Rucker James Taylor and Bruno Mars. I also liked Hootie and the Blowfish Darius Rucker's old group before he went country. Bruce Hornsby and the Range. Before Bruce went the solo jazz route. Then of course I love classical, jazz and standard singers. Like Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney and ETC.

Lorie Mann What's on your bucket list?
Barry What haven't I done that I want to do. I want to write original material with my favorite female singers/songwriter. Then take the songs we wrote and record a duets album. Do a concert in Central Park like Simon and Garfunkle. Garth Brooks, Diana Ross and other artists/groups have done. Take the Orient Express train from London England to Venice Italy.  Travel England and Scotland by train. My wife Carly loves to travel by train. So while were dating we took Amtrak up to Boston for vacation. That's how I got hooked on train travel. Carly also loves to fly on airplanes. Open up a few more 1943 British American Gastro Pubs her in the US and UK. I want to open them in Manhattan New York, Boston Massachusetts, Portland Oregon, Seattle Washington, Glasgow Scotland and London England. The flagship 1943 British American Gastro Pub in Williamsburg is doing very well. We got great reviews from Michelin, New York Times and Zagat. Michelin gave us five stars. So did the New York Times and Zagat.

To all my Southern California fans with all those wild fires please take care and keep safe.
Thinking of all of you.
Hugs,
Barry

Oh Really!

Barry and Garry got home at eleven pm. Soon after both Carly and Denise walked in the door. How was the show said Barry?  It was ok said Carly as she and Denise walked into the living room. OMG! is Brian Murphy skinny said Denise. You mean tooth pick legs said Barry. If a strong wind kicked up it would blow him away. Oh yeah said Garry Brian Murphy hates to eat yes tooth pick legs  Carly said. Jacqueline asked me and Denise what we were doing tomorrow night. I told her that me, Ally, Rita and Zoey were going to Barry's Because It's Christmas benefit at the Barclay Center. The benefit concert sold out within thirty minutes after the tickets went on sale. Kathy said no wonder I couldn't get tickets for me, Jacqueline, Kim, Shelly and Gillian.   On our way home Rita thought that was interesting that the others couldn't get tickets to tomorrow nights benefit concert. Shelly was telling members in the Facebook group she owns that she and her two friends were going to the benefit. Actually they don't have tickets.  Kathy said non of them had tickets for the benefit tomorrow night.
Good because they're always trying to get back stage when they come to my concerts said Barry. Marc, David and Now Eric have the task of making sure they don't get back stage. Knowing Shelly, Kim and Gillian they will be somewhere around the stage door to see Barry go inside. Who are these three women asked Denise? They're fans of Barry's said Carly. Shelly the group leader claims she, Kim and Gillian are BFF's with Barry, Bruce Sussman, Garry Kief and Marc Hulett. However they are not BFF's with any of them. I do know they are friends with Suzie, Rob Bruce's partner and Scott Nevins. Rob knows to keep his lips zipped on any thing that pertains to Barry. Rob says those women are so nosey that if they could  they would literally crawl inside my pants said Barry. Wouldn't they just loved to know what brand, fabric and style of men's underwear I wear. The only thing I will say is they're 100% cotton. Also I don't wear bikinis or thong style underwear. Barry's friend Denny who still lived in Palm Springs emailed him the Bruce Fessier article on Brian Murphy that appeared in the Friday December 8th Desert Sun life section under entertainment. It mentioned Brian's A Gift Of Love benefit shows at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Springs. There was also a little Q&A with Brian. Of course they asked Brian about a second Las Vegas residency. Since there was some hinting about it. He said Gregory Knofler (Brian's husband and manager) was getting ready to dot the I's and cross the T's. on the contract. Hopefully he would be back in Las Vegas at the Westgate (formerly the Las Vegas Hilton) Brian would be there Thursday thru Saturday. If he thinks he can just do the Las Vegas shows only. He's only fooling himself. Look what happened the last time. He played LV only in 2005. His fans who couldn't go complained. So starting in 2006 Brian had to do shows outside LV whenever he wasn't in LV. The other thing is that Brian's tickets are very expensive. Barry did see some photos of Brian Murphy's Chicago and Long Island concerts. Barry thought Brian's velvet jackets were tacky. Also his attempt at a tuxedo did quite look right on him. Brian does not know how to wear a tuxedo. Tonight was Barry's seventh annual Because It's Christmas benefit. Last year Barry was at Madison Square Garden for his annual benefit. Barry was aiming to do his two thousand eighteen eighth annual Because It's Christmas benefit at Carnegie Hall. He wanted to have the New York Philharmonic Orchestra on stage to perform with him. Barry's Because It's Christmas benefit went from 8pm to 11:30pm. A two hour concert with a half hour intermission and a one hour encore. Barry's concerts always ended up with encores. Barry Manilow's fans just couldn't get enough of him. so he would do encores for them. Barry went backstage after the regular ending. He quickly came back out and said "Lets start this benefit allover again." With that he took off his white jacket with black lapels and black vest. Barry went right into one of his hot numbers I'm Your Man. He ended the one hour encore with You're Looking Hot Tonight.

Getting Ready For Friday's Benefit Concert.

Barry was getting ready for his Because It's Christmas VII Benefit at the Barclay Center on Friday December 8th, He had sent the Grant Street Campus chorus the lyrics to Because It's Christmas, One Voice and It's A Miracle. Marc had sent Barry publicity photos of Brian Murphy's concert jackets for his A Brian Christmas and A Gift Of Love IV concerts. The color red seems to wash out Brian's face thought Barry. All of Brian's jackets except his white one were made of velvet with sparkles on them. Barry decided to go with an edgy tuxedo for Sunday nights benefit concert. The pants had zero stripe down the outer side of each leg. The vest had an embossed design on it. Black pants, black embossed, white tuxedo shirt, black vest, black tuxedo coat and black euro tie. The tuxedo coat was where in edginess came in. The hem was longer on one side a regular on the other side.  The tuxedo coat was just like the one he wore in nineteen ninety-nine. When he played Carnegie Hall on Monday March 8, 1999 for The Gay Men's Crisis Benefit. Barry had decided to open Friday's concert the same way he did that benefit. Barry came out flipped the tail of his tuxedo jacket sat down and played Chopin's Prelude In C Minor. Then he went into the romantic version of his song Could It Be Magic based on that Chopin prelude. Then later on he was going to do Could It Be Magic a second time. This would be Take That's up tempo version complete with BAMS. Barry was also putting together a NYC Rhythm, Brooklyn Blues, Williamsburg medley. Barry and Cyndi Lauper were going to duet on her song Time After Time and Baby It's Cold Outside. Barry had even picked out some Christmas song that would be played as the fans came in. Barry decided on a Thursday night to get together with Bruce, David, Eric, Jack, Garry, Marc and Rob for a little guy time. Fried chicken and bowling at the Brooklyn Bowl. Garry and Denise were coming into New York for the weekend starting Wednesday. They were going to stay at Barry and Carly's house till Monday. Carly had gotten suckered into going to Brian Murphy's Nassau Coliseum concert on Thursday night. Kathy had a ticket for Denise to go too. Gillian was supposed to go with them but she got the flu. Gillian was friends with Shelly and Kim. Jacqueline had invited Gillian, Shelly and Kim to go with her and Kathy, Carly Ally, Rita and Zoey.  Carly told Kathy she did not want to sit next to Shelly. Shelly, Kim and Gilliam claimed they were also friends with Suzie Barry's one time friend.. They too believed that Barry was gay and married to his former manager Garry. Barry basically paid those three women no attention. They told their friends that they were friends with Barry, Bruce, Garry and Marc. These women were not friends at all with Barry, Bruce, Garry and Marc. Barry had called Garry to tell him about Thursdays boys night out. He also told him that Denise would be going with Ally, Carly, Rita, Zoey, Jacqueline, Kathy, Shelly and Kim to see Brian Murphy's Thursday December 7th Nassau Coliseum concert. Gillian a friend of Shelly and Kim's was supposed to go. However she got sick. Garry said I'm sure Carly Ally, Rita and Zoey really wanted to go. Garry knew better that Carly and her BFF's didn't want to go. Barry wanted to get the Barclay Center for Thursday night. However Disney Tim Burton's The  Nightmare Before Christmas was there both Wednesday and Thursday nights. Chris Rock Saturday December 9th. Saturday night was comedian Chris Rock and Sunday was women's and men's basketball starting at one. So Barry had to take Friday night as it was open. Thursday's boys night out was great. Instead of eating fried chicken at the Brooklyn Bowl. The guys went to  Barry's eatery 1943 British American Gastro Pub. The guys loved the atmosphere which was a mix of British and American. Barry mentioned that his gastro pub served British ale and a few local micro brews from Brooklyn. No US beers like Budweiser, Coors, Old Milwaukee, Miller and ETC. Barry liked British ale but hated US beers. We even deep fry candy bars and have them on our desert menu. We deep fry Milky Way, Milky Way Caramel, Milky Way Dark, Snickers original with peanuts, Snickers with almonds and Snickers with hazelnuts. I had to get the address for the Mars candy company which makes the Snickers bar. Because a few costumers wanted to write the Mars candy company. So they could ask then to make their Snickers bar with cashews and Snickers bar with macadamia nuts. Deep fried candy bars was started in the UK. Heck they deep fry anything said Garry. Denise and I had deep fried cheese cake. That was a slice of cheese cake dipped in either milk or dark chocolate. After the chocolate hardens it's dipped in funnel cake batter. Then it's drizzled with chocolate ganache and whipped cream. Interesting said Bruce. I was at this bar down in Atlanta with Eric my personal assistant. We chose to eat our dinner at the bar. They put out free bar snacks. They take mixed nuts put them in a bowl. Then mixed the nuts with butter, tabasco sauce, garlic powder and onion powder. Spread them out on a baking sheet and bake them for forty-five minutes. They're so addictive.  So I snatched the recipe and put it on 1943's free snacks menu. We serve spicy mixed nuts and garlic cheddar popcorn as free snacks. Ground Round restaurants use to served peanuts in their shells or popcorn. It was to tied you over until your meal came. I'm addicted to mixed nuts said Barry. Carly on the other hand is addicted to assorted chesses and crackers. Triscuit crackers and cheese is Carly's go to snack. She likes their original, garden herb, thin crisps sour cream and chive and parmesan garlic. The only sweet she likes is ice cream. Carly did have a piece of wedding cake on our wedding day. That was the best cake ever said Jack. That's because our cake was made by Charm City Cakes Ace Of Cakes Duff Goldman. It was a four tiered two layered white cake with raspberry filling in between the layers of cake. The frosting was white whipped light butter cream.  The roses on the cake were made with pureed raspberries mixed in to the white frosting. Carly knows I like raspberry torte. So that was what our cake was a raspberry torte four tiered wedding cake.  Carly actually wanted to elope however she had never been married. I told her I wanted her to have her dream wedding. Every bride has their dream wedding so should you. Which she did have her dream wedding. After we got back from our Montreal and Quebec honeymoon. Carly went back to  Kleinfeld's Bridal store. Carly wanted to show Audrey, Randy, Dorothy and Nicole photos from our wedding. None of them got to see Carly's finished Hayley Paige custom wedding dress. Carly told them my tuxedo was by Joseph Abboud. In fact I have seven pairs of the black loafers I wore on my wedding day. The reason I have that many is because the other pairs I wear when I'm in concert. They're a very stylish shoe that goes perfect with my dresser concert attire.