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Name: BarryNet Articles & Reviews Date/Time: 7/22/2019 2:52 AM Subject: Now Playing: Barry Manilow
The New Yorker, 22 July 2019 The last time Barry Manilow was on Broadway, in 2013, he dug himself out of a bad cold, littered the stage of the St. James with Kleenex boxes, and triumphantly announced, “All I got is a whole bunch of hit songs, and I’m going to do them all.” At seventy-six, Manilow is show biz personified: he knows how to keep his audiences happy, humming, and a bit wistful. He returns July 26-Aug. 17, at the Lunt-Fontanne, which has been hosting short stints by entertainers ranging from Mel Brooks to Regina Spektor. It’s a crowd-pleasing way to fill up Broadway’s summer doldrums, and Manilow was a pioneer of the form: in 1977, he received a Special Tony Award for “Barry Manilow on Broadway,” his twelve-day concert that spawned a quadruple-platinum live album. 
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