Hi Everyone,
This month’s MTV is very special.
The show was taped in 2009 during the BMIFC Convention.
To make the three Convention shows special, I decided to stage songs from “Here At The Mayflower”, the album that had gotten such positive reaction when it was released in 2001 – 8 years earlier.
My band, my BG singers, the crew and the brilliant Seth Jackson, who outdid himself on lights and effects, helped me to create as close to a Broadway Musical as we could.
We opened the show, as usual with “It’s A Miracle” and around 25 minutes of pop hits.
And then…and then…we went from a pop show to a Broadway show.
The response for each song kept getting bigger and bigger and we were all so grateful for the Convention folks’ incredible reactions.
I was very nervous when we released “Here At The Mayflower” in 2001. It certainly wasn’t your typical pop album. But as the sales began to climb and the word of mouth began to spread and the reviews came in, I began to believe that all of the work we did might just be worth it.
Staging “Here At The Mayflower” was hard work, but as we all sang “Welcome Home” at the end of the piece we all felt so proud of what we had done.
Nobody has ever seen this staged version of “Here At The Mayflower” and I’m grateful to Marc for finding it.
And mostly to all of you who were in the audience that weekend in 2009.
Enjoy!
Barry
Up Next in '00s
-
Somewhere Down The Road (Live from An...
Hi Everyone,
We’re already near the end of the year. How’d that happen??
This month’s MTV is musically exceptional.
“Brooklyn Blues”, done by the great Dave Koz and George Shelby, is talent personified. I’m so proud to have had them with me and I’m so glad I had the songs for them to play.
Th...
-
An Evening Of Music And Passion - Mad...
We called this tour “An Evening of Music and Passion” and it was a road show based on the show we’d put together for the Hilton show we were doing in Las Vegas.
This tour was the most extravagant touring production we’d ever done. It took something like 12 semi-trucks to carry it around country....
-
Ultimate Manilow! (2002 CBS Special)
This concert is a beauty.
CBS-TV offered to tape a concert at the brand new Kodak Theater in Hollywood. A gorgeous place to perform.
We were coming off a very successful and exciting few months. Concord Records had released my favorite album called “Here At The Mayflower” and Arista released ...
26 Comments