BARRY MANILOW
Barry Manilow’s postponed April 14 concert at The Prudential Center in Newark will now take place on June 26, he announced on social media.
The new date is not currently listed on the Prudential Center or Ticketmaster websites, or on barrymanilow.com. However, a message on the page for the original Prudential Center show on the Ticketmaster website states: “Please hold onto your tickets as they will be valid for the new date.”
Manilow, who will turn 83 on June 17, is calling this year’s tour his farewell show, and the Newark show is billed as “The Last Newark Concert.” He is currently scheduled to resume concert appearances May 7, at The Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
Manilow announced in December that he had to have surgery to have a cancerous spot on his lung removed, and that he was cancelling shows because of that. In a People interview in March, Manilow said he was cancer-free. But the article’s writer, Jeff Nelson, also wrote that Manilow was “still on a long road to recovery.”
Manilow said, in the article: “It has really, really made me take stock of my life. This made me stop and think about: Have I done what I wanted to do, and have I made people happy? Have I been a good friend? All of those cornball things that I’ve read for all of my life, I started to think about that, too. It really did stop me in my tracks. And the answers are yes. And as a matter of fact, there are more yeses than I ever thought.”
Manilow plans to release a new album, What a Time, on June 5. It will be his first collection of all-new, original studio material since 2011’s 15 Minutes.
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