Things don’t always go the way you plan…
That giant display board for the Las Vegas Hilton indicates the major reason we planned this current trip to Vegas. We had booked tickets for Barry Manilow before we left home.
We arrived at the Hilton plenty early, eager to pick up those tickets, and then grab a quick meal in one of the many hotel restaurants. Then we just had to kill a hour before “The Music & The Passion” – the magic of Manilow live.
Walking to the box office though, we had a surprise in store – not a good one. “The Music & The Passion” was CANCELLED, for Oct 4th. No show.
Turns out Manilow came down with bronchitis, so we were, to be scientific about it, screwed.
Crushed and beaten, we somehow shuffled over to a restaurant, and forced some food into our gullets. After some discussion, we determined that with the amount of shows we tend to see, something like this is going to happen once in a while. It just would have been nice if it hadn’t been halfway across the flippin’ country…
So, now we have to come back to see Mr. Manilow, I guess next year. Hope he doesn’t come down with malaria or something. It’ll be like back in the 70’s when you bought Aerosmith tickets, and they were all too ripped to perform. I think they cancelled three live shows in a row in Winnipeg back then. Performers…a little bronchitis and they can’t sing a song or two…
Other than that, we are keeping busy, and having later nights than a meeting of the Hilton Spears Society.
More to come!!
Chow for now…
That giant display board for the Las Vegas Hilton indicates the major reason we planned this current trip to Vegas. We had booked tickets for Barry Manilow before we left home.
We arrived at the Hilton plenty early, eager to pick up those tickets, and then grab a quick meal in one of the many hotel restaurants. Then we just had to kill a hour before “The Music & The Passion” – the magic of Manilow live.
Walking to the box office though, we had a surprise in store – not a good one. “The Music & The Passion” was CANCELLED, for Oct 4th. No show.
Turns out Manilow came down with bronchitis, so we were, to be scientific about it, screwed.
Crushed and beaten, we somehow shuffled over to a restaurant, and forced some food into our gullets. After some discussion, we determined that with the amount of shows we tend to see, something like this is going to happen once in a while. It just would have been nice if it hadn’t been halfway across the flippin’ country…
So, now we have to come back to see Mr. Manilow, I guess next year. Hope he doesn’t come down with malaria or something. It’ll be like back in the 70’s when you bought Aerosmith tickets, and they were all too ripped to perform. I think they cancelled three live shows in a row in Winnipeg back then. Performers…a little bronchitis and they can’t sing a song or two…
Other than that, we are keeping busy, and having later nights than a meeting of the Hilton Spears Society.
More to come!!
Chow for now…
5 comments:
Hi TDG,
I've been to see Manilow a handful of times now, most recently for his Here at the Mayflower tour. I would recommend making the trip to see him, he really is worth it, or at least he was everytime I've seen him. Sorry to hear about what happened, that's enough to bum anyone out!
Hey Theadra!
Thanks for your kind thoughts. We were pretty bummed out missing him, but we will return for sure. He's absolutely on our must-see list!!
I would count it as a blessing in disguise.
You're probably right. It wouldn't be the first time I've had to remove MTDG, singing along at the top of her lungs...
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