In return to Vegas after cancer battle, singer cuts short the second show in Westgate residency, cancels the third due to illness<\/p>\n
\n\tBarry Manilow<\/a>\u2019s return to the Las Vegas stage following his cancer battle was cut short this weekend as the singer was hit with bronchitis.<\/p>\n \n\tManilow\u2019s Las Vegas residency was postponed<\/a> numerous times \u2014 from May 2026 to July 2026 to ultimately October 2026 \u2014 as he recovered from surgery to remove a \u201ccancerous spot\u201d on his lung, as the singer revealed<\/a> last December.<\/p>\n \n\tWhile Manilow was able to embark on his The Last Concerts farewell tour this summer, he finally returned to Las Vegas\u2019 Westgate for his long-delayed residency on Thursday night, performing that first show incident-free.<\/p>\n \n\tThe following evening, however, Manilow cut short his Friday concert after just two songs, and subsequently canceled Saturday\u2019s show as well. \u201cAfter a triumphant welcome-back concert on Thursday, Barry got hit with bronchitis and had to cancel his Friday and Saturday shows,\u201d Manilow\u2019s reps told Variety<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tManilow is next scheduled to perform October 15, 16, and 17 at the Westgate, the second weekend of shows in a residency that\u2019s currently scheduled through April 2027.<\/p>\n \n\tThe singer has been hit with bronchitis in recent years, including one bout that was so severe that he underwent tests that uncovered stage 1 lung cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAs many of you know I recently went through six weeks of bronchitis followed by a relapse of another five weeks,\u201d Manilow said in late 2025. \u201cEven though I was over the bronchitis and back on stage at the Westgate Las Vegas, my wonderful doctor ordered an MRI to make sure that everything was OK.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHe added at the time, \u201cThe MRI discovered a cancerous spot on my left lung that needs to be removed. It\u2019s pure luck (and a great doctor) that it was found so early. That\u2019s the good news.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In return to Vegas after cancer battle, singer cuts short the second show in Westgate residency, cancels the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[163008,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-627559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-barry-manilow","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}