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Carly got a text message from her Barry Buddy Rita. Rita mentioned that Brian Murphy announced on his Facebook page that he was doing Wolf Trap in Vienna Virginia for two nights Friday June 8th and Saturday June 9th. Fans who like Shirley's Facebook page were wondering what happened to Las Vegas. Brian Murphy was supposedly going to announce Las Vegas real soon. That was something the Review Journal's Katz posted in his entertainment column. Brain said he wanted to go back to Las Vegas. I just got a text message from Rita Carly told Barry.  Rita said Brian Murphy is doing Wolf Trap in Vienna Virginia in June for two nights. That's Friday June eighth and Saturday June  ninth.
Fans over at Shirley's Facebook page for you were wondering why Brian Murphy hadn't announced his Westgate dates yet. Some of your fans are also Brian Murphy fans. That's why those fans over on Shirley's Facebook page are wondering why Brian hasn't announced Las Vegas yet. Rita did check
a ticket site that  has tickets on sale for Westgate shows. They have shows on sale for Clint Holmes and Earl Turner, Dirk Arthur and Sexy. But nothing for Brian Murphy and Dee Snyder's musical.  Who knows why Brian Murphy hasn't announced his Westgate run yet. Barry and Carly were met at the Portland Amtrak train station by Garry and Denise.  Garry and Denise took Barry and Carly to their house. Now tomorrow afternoon we're going to a Portland winery for a wine tasting said Garry. Now that sounds fine to me said Barry. Once they got to Garry and Denise's house Garry showed them to the guest bedroom. Barry brought with him the DVD of him on stage with Tears For Fears singing their song Shout with them. He actually made Garry a copy of the original video tape. Next week I'll have to take you and Carly to my newest venture said Garry.  Now what have you gotten yourself into said Barry. I've started my own Craft Brewery company. It's called GCK American Ale said Garry.   Can we carry this in my 1943 British American Gastro Pub's asked Barry. Garry said sure you can carry it in your gastro pubs.  By the way I'm going to be on the June cover issue of GQ said Barry. I know my fans have been wanting me on the cover of GQ for a longtime.  I just sent  Cyndi Lauper's Joni Mitchell album to the mastering studios. Cyndi and I did two duets on the album. Chelsea Morning and River said Barry. By the way David Taylor has gotten me a two month run on Broadway at the Cort Theatre for September and October. Carly heard from her Barry Buddy Abby that Brian Murphy wanted to do another Broadway run. He one in nineteen seventy six/nineteen seventy seven at the Uris Theatre and in two thousand thirteen at the St. James. I've only done one stint on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre. I was there with my Barry Manilow Live On Broadway show from April eighteen to June tenth nineteen eighty nine. I did a total of forty six shows. Barry got a call from David. He told Barry that the Cort Theatre wanted to extend his run through the end of November. Barry got off the phone with David. With my Cort Theatre shows I was doing a total of fifty shows in September and October. That was David who just called the Cort Theatre just asked David if I would extend my run through November thirtieth. I told David yes. He then said he would tell them about my 2:00AM Paradise Café II album debut at the Rose Theatre on Thursday November fifteenth. September twenty six shows plus  October twenty six shows plus November twenty five shows equals seventy seven shows total so far. When I get back I'll have to announce the November dates at the Cort Theatre said Barry. Barry and Carly left on Saturday to come back to New York City. Barry would home for a week before he headed down to San Antonio Texas.

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It's me Barry again with some photos to share with you. Photo one is the Cort Theatre with the marquee that has my Barry Manilow's Paradise Café logo on it. Below it is the description of my show. Photo two is a bigger picture of the marquee logo. Photo three is a bigger picture of the description on it. The description reads. "The night is new. The faces are friendly. So have a few and let me play. Some new songs. Some blues songs. The mood is always right. While your here at the Paradise Café." "The Paradise Café is a cool jazz club in Greenwich Village. Let jazz recording artist Barry Manilow take you there." "Listen the city is singing her Night Song. Listen!" Yes I'm going back to my roots which is steeped in jazz. I started out back in nineteen eighty four as a jazz artist with the release of my first jazz album called 2:00AM Paradise Café. It has been a wonderful ride for the last thirty four years. And I have enjoyed every minute of this incredible ride that I've been on. It's all thanks to you my dear ones. Here to more incredible rides for all of us to come.

Love you all forever and a day,

Barry



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It's men coming at you from the rails. Yes I said rails. Today is Wednesday January 31st. I am on Amtrak's Empire Builder headed towards Portland Oregon. Me and Carly got an invite to spend some time with Garry and Denise. So while I'm on two weeks of much needed vacation. I'm giving you all the schedule for this year and next years Tropicana dates. As you can see it's two weeks in December two thousand eighteen. Three weeks in February, June and October of two thousand nineteen. If you go over top my Facebook page and go into the Convention/Parties section you will see all the latest information for this years Party Weekend in Atlantic City at the Tropicana. That's New Years Eve weekend. Friday December twenty eighth through Monday December thirty first. The Tropicana is where I'm kicking off my Paradise Tour II in December. The stage sets will be an intimate New York Jazz club called the Paradise Café. Dean Lighting Company is creating my Paradise Café night club sign. With this tour I'm going back to my roots which is being a jazz artist. That's how my career started as a jazz artist back in nineteen eighty four. Nineteen eighty four was the year I put out my 2:00AM Paradise Café jazz album. During the show's we'll be doing songs from 2:00AM Paradise Café, Swing Street, Singing With The Big Bands and 2:00AM Paradise Café II. Along with taking a few of my contemporary songs that I have given them them a jazz feel. Kion and I worked on a duet to Big City Blues. That's the song I did with The Velvet Fog Mel Torme'. Then Shelly and I will duet on the song Blue. I did that song as a duet with Sarah Vaughan. Then on my Big Fun On Swing Street special I did that song with Carmen McRae. Then Billy, Kion and Me will be a trio on the song Hey Mambo. That song I did with Kid Creole and the Coconuts on  the Swing Street album. Kid Creole and the Coconuts were also on my Big Fun On Swing Street special. Along with Gerry Mulligan, Dana Robbins, Stanley Clark, Carmen McRae and Phyllis Hyman. I'm thinking about doing a 2:00AM Paradise Café television special for this coming fall. Take care everyone.
Barry

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Exciting news everyone. David Taylor just called me while I'm out here in Portland. He said he was on a conference call with The Shubert Organizations Chairman Philip J. Smith and President Bernard E. Wamkel. David said both gentlemen said yes to my doing a two month run at their Cort Theatre this year. I'm doing a short run on Broadway In September and October of this year. Yes my musical The Mayflower will still be at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia in September and October for it's second regional. Bruce and Jack will be in Philadelphia to check up on things as needed.  I'll be on Broadway at the Cort Theatre with my Barry Manilow's Paradise Café show. My Paradise Café show runs from Saturday September 1st through Wednesday October 31st. Now I won't be on stage on Mondays . Since Mondays are lights out for theatres in Times Square. Now underneath the add for my Cort Theatre shows is the September and October 2018 calendar dates for my shows. That's so you can see the dates I'll be at the Cort Theatre. I'm doing fifty two shows at the Cort Theatre. Tickets will go on sale Friday March second at 10AM ET. Brian Murphy told his manager Gregory Knofler he wanted to do a short Broadway Theatre run. However Gregory told Brian he couldn't get him a theatre right now. You know the saying It's all in who you know. Well it's so true since I know a lot of people connected to Broadway Theatre. Right now I've got four musicals on Broadway. Gershwin Theatre revival of Copacabana, Marquis Theatre Harmony, Palace Theatre 15 Minutes and Broadway Theatre Here At The Mayflower. So get ready for me Barry Manilow on Broadway once again.

Barry

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Barry heard from Marc that Brian Murphy would be at Clive' Davis' Pre-Grammy party. Marc also heard Clive's party was going to be at the Sheraton Times Square.  Someone asked me yesterday if I was going to Clive's Pre-Grammy Party Barry told Marc. I told them no I was not. Why not they asked me? I said I Clive Davis didn't invite me and he hates me. Brian Murphy was the one who got Clive Davis to give me a recording contract. Clive figured my first album would tank. Well it did not tank at all said Barry. In fact my first album 2:00AM Paradise Café came out certified quadruple platinum. It debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 200 Album chart. My first single When October Goes came out certified quadruple platinum too. As well as debuting at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. I went on the road to promote my first record album. I called the tour my Paradise Café Tour which morphed into my Copacabana Tour. Tickets for both tours sold out within a half hour of tickets going on sale. 2:00AM Paradise Café won me every Grammy I was nominated for. So that's why Clive hated me because I was so successful with my first album. Then every album after that one that I put out on Arista did the same thing. Clive wanted me to bomb and my first album to tank so he could let me go from Arista. Well I didn't bomb and my first album didn't tank so he couldn't let go of me. Now I left Arista when Clive was told to retire and LA Reed got his job. In two thousand I was at a party that was attended by Glen Barros the head of Concord Records. I liked what Concord Records stood for. AT that party Glen Barros asked me if I wanted to join his Concord Record label. I said yes I would love to sign with Concord Records since I was now looking for a new record label.  That's just what I did I signed with Concord Records and I've been with them ever since. My Williamsburg album came out to late to get nominated for Grammys this year. Maybe in two thousand nineteen it will get nominated for Grammys. Brian Murphy's album This Is My Town also came out to late for this years Grammys. I heard that Brian Murphy sang New York New York, This Is My Town, Mandy and Copacabana last night said Marc. Now tonight I'm going to the Concord Records Grammy Party with Carly said Barry. I'm entertainer for the party. The party is at The Grand Hyatt's Empire State Ballroom. I found out that my good friend Kenny G. is coming to The Concord Records Grammy Party. I asked him to bring his saxophone with him.  I told him I was doing two songs off of 2:00AM Paradise Café II. So I wanted him to play saxophone on the songs I'm doing tonight. I told Kenny I was going to do two songs off my next album 2:00AM Paradise Café II which he is on. I've decided to do  these songs The Paradise Café and New York City Blues from 2:00AM Paradise Café II, Then Big City Blues duet with Kion and Billy and Night Song from 2:00AM Paradise Café. My band and backup singers will be on stage to preform with me said Barry. Tomorrow afternoon Carly and are leaving at 3:40PM on Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited heading towards Chicago. We get into Chicago Tuesday at 9:45AM. There's a four and a half hour layover in Chicago. We're taking the 2:15PM Empire Builder out to Portland. We should arrive in Portland on Thursday at 2:55PM.  Garry invited Carly and me for a visit. We're staying with him and Denise at their house. We'll be there for one week and two days. Then we leave on the following Thursday at 4:45PM. We get into Chicago Saturday at 3:55PM. We have a five hour layover in Chicago. We're leaving at 9:30PM. We'll get back here to New York City on Sunday at 6:23PM. We will be gone for two whole weeks. I definitely need this vacation said Barry. Dr. Jeff Houston who works at Brooklyn Pet Care Veterinary Hospital will be taking care of the dogs. Dr. Jeff Houston use to work with Carly at the Bronx Zoo. We're leaving Monday January the twenty- ninth and we get home on Sunday February the eleventh. Then I'm home till Monday February  twenty-six. When I leave for San Antonio Texas. I'll leave Monday on Amtrak's Crescent for New Orleans. I'll spend one night there. Then I leave on the Sunset Limited for San Antonio. I'll be in San Antonio with my songwriting partners during March and April. Then I'll come back home at the beginning of May.  If you get a chance Marc you need to try Diet Coke's bold new flavors. Ginger Lime, Feisty Cherry, Zesty Blood Orange and Twisted Mango. I like the Ginger Lime and the Feisty Cherry. I already love the Diet Coke with Lime said Barry. I also love Fresca which is a grapefruit flavored soda. I'm taking my favorite metal container with me when I go to San Antonio. My metal container keep my cold drink cold drink for hours. Vikki and I finished the It's Just Another New Years Eve Party Weekend  itinerary. I'll be announcing the party weekend in March so fans can start planning their trip to AC said Barry.

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Carly could still see what was on others Facebook pages without having a Facebook account. She went to take a look at this one Facebook page for Barry.  The page owner would tell everyone that she was BFF's with Barry which Carly knew she wasn't. The page owner posted the link to the Kats January 17th entertainment column. It talked about Clint Holmes and Earl Turner's show coming to the Westgate. Then he also mentioned Barry by saying the following. "Barry Manilow is expected to finally be announced as the hotel's resident Superstar attraction, performing three weekends a month through 2018." Carly emailed the URL to Barry's manager David Taylor. She also emailed the URL to Garry and to Marc so they could see this. Barry was back in London for the book signing and the four O2 concerts. So he called Carly to checkup on her and their four doggies. That's when Carly read Barry Kats' column in the January 17th Review Journal. She let him know that Garry, Marc and David had been emailed the URL to the Review Journal Kat's column. After I come back from the UK I'm headed to Atlantic City on  Thursday January 25th said Barry. Friday January 26th I'm going to be on Extra with host Tanika Ray. She'll be interviewing me on the Tropicana Showroom stage. That's when I'm announcing my six year run at the Tropicana's Showroom at that time. I will be there   February, June and October. Each month I'm doing three weekends with four shows each weekend.
The shows are Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I'll also be showing everyone the poster for my Tropicana shows said Barry. Carly and Barry said their goodbyes. As soon as Carly got off the phone with Barry  David Barry's manager called. Carly told David  that Suzanne told the fans in Shirley's Facebook page that Barry had signed a contract with the Westgate. Suzanne has become chummy with Shirley, Keisha and Gillian  Carly told him. I got that from my friend Abby who still has a Facebook account. Abby said Shirley mentioned that Suzanne said she would take her, Keisha and Gillian backstage to meet Barry after his opening night show. That's interesting said David  since Barry will be on vacation for two weeks. Then he's back in the recording  studio to finish up 2:00AM Paradise Café II. Barry's recording the album over at The Brewery Recording Studios in Brooklyn said David. Barry's opening night isn't until Thursday December 20th at Tropicana in Atlantic City. Barry signed a six year contract with the Tropicana. Barry will be there from December 2018 to October 2024. He's doing December of this year. Then February, June and October 2019 to 2024. It's three weekends each month with for nights Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday each of the three weekends. Suzanne liked the idea of Barry being Westgate's resident headlining superstar.  Oh one more thing said Carly. I saw this on Twitter yesterday after dinner. Photo of Suzanne. To the right of her it said "I'm happy about [President Trump]... And now my career is over!" I know she's a Democrat. Barry told me that she was said Carly. After Carly got off the phone with David Taylor she let the dogs out. Carly would be very glad when Barry got home since Tucker their Bull Terrier really missed Barry a lot. Carly ended up putting Tucker's doggie bed upstairs in Barry's at home recording studio. Since that's where Carly usually found him curled up on Barry's oversized cushy chair. Tucker really loved Barry. Carly had also sent the photo of Suzanne to Barry. Once he got home Barry told Carly that Suzanne's career wasn't over just because Donald Trump is president.
I take it Suzanne's another one of those Democrats who's gone ballistic since Donald Trump became president? asked Carly It looks like she has said Barry.  Now you see why I keep my political views to myself said Barry. Yes I do said Carly. I remember a while some fans mentioned that you were a Democrat because you sang Let Freedom Ring at Bill Clinton's first inaugural concert in 1993. I replied no Barry did not sing at Bill Clinton's first inaugural concert. That was Brian Murphy who asked Barry and Bruce if he could sing their song Let Freedom Ring. Both Barry and Bruce told Brian he could sing their song. Brian did that song on A Capitol Fourth July fourth two thousand and nine. Plus in London back in 1992. Barry sang Let Freedom Ring at Fiesta At Fords Theatre. Barry does not sing for political purposes. Barry wondered where Clive Davis' Pre-Grammy party would take place. Carly told Barry she saw an article on Clive Davis and his Pre-Grammy party. She told Barry it would be at the Sheraton Times Square. In the article it mentioned that some past attendees would not be able to go. That's because the heads of Apple and Spotify were going. Marc said he had lunch with Brian and Gregory so both of them were going to Clive's Pre-Grammy party. Today was Barry's interview with Tanika Ray of Extra. Tomorrow Barry would be heading home. Then Sunday Barry and Carly were leaving New York City on Amtrak's The Lake Shore Limited. They were going to Chicago where they would catch Amtrak's Empire Builder. Barry and Carly were going to Portland Oregon to spend a week with Garry and Denise.

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Hi Everyone it's me Barry here. It's 7am London time. While it's 2am eastern, 1am central, 12am mountain and 11pm pacific times back there in the states. If you didn't see the latest Review Journal Kat's Column here's the snip on me. Snip to "Barry Manilow is expected to finally be announced as the hotels resident Superstar attraction, performing three weekends a month through 2018." As all of you know "I HATE LAS VEGAS" period. I also do not like being called a superstar. Multi talented entertainer yes superstar no.I will formally announce my six year run at the Tropicana Casino Resort this Friday while I'm being interviewed by Extra host Tanika Ray on the Showroom stage. I will actually start my three months a year residency in February 2019. I'll be there during the months of February, June and October doing three weeks each month. Each  week will consist of four shows Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I will be leaving London Tuesday afternoon. I've had a great time here in the UK. Last year Carly got me tickets to see one of my favorite duos Tears For Fears Roland Orzabal and Curtis Smith. Somehow the guys found out I was at the show and also that I'm a huge fan of theirs. So they invited me on stage to sing with them. I told the guys I had learned to play both Everybody Wants To Rule The World and Shout on the piano. That night I played piano and sang with Roland and Curtis on their song Shout. So for all four O2 shows I'm ding that song. Heads up everyone I'm going to be on Extra this Friday. Extra host Tanika Ray will be interviewing me from the Tropicana's Showroom stage.  I will be giving fans a sneak peek at my "Tropicana Presents Manilow's Paradise Café poster. However because you're fan club members you get an even earlier sneak peek. So above this message is my Manilow's Paradise Café poster. The poster will be made available  in November of this year along with some other Paradise Café gear. Because this years New Years Eve concert will take place in the Showroom at the Tropicana. I will be performing at the Showroom Thursday December 20th thru Sunday December 23rd. and Friday December 28th thru Monday December 31st. Tickets for those eight shows will go on sale next month Friday February 3rd. Vikki and I are working out the final details of the "It's Just Another New Years Eve" Party Weekend in Atlantic City at the Tropicana. Now would Brian Murphy do this sort of thing? I don't think so. Three months February, June and October. Three weeks each of those months with four nights Thursday thru Sunday. Ninety minute shows with encores. His fans are lucky they're getting one year 2018 so far. With three weekends  and three nights each of those weeks Thursday thru Saturday. Ninety minute shows with no encores at all. I've said this before I'm three years older than Brian he's 71 and I'm 74. He has his A-fib and bad hips. I don't have any health issues so far knock on wood.  It's time I go get some breakfast.  I'm thinking about having afternoon tea during this years It's Just Another New years Eve Party Weekend. Afternoon tea would happen on Sunday afternoon. Yes I will be coming to afternoon tea. For anyone who doesn't know afternoon tea consists of finger sandwiches, scones with clotted cream, preserves, assorted sweets and assorted types of tea. We all went to afternoon tea on Sunday. Boy was that good. As all of you know tea with lemon and honey is good for your throat. There is actually a tea company here in the UK called Barry's Tea. Well now I really need to get going so I can eat breakfast.
Love,
Barry