To Manilow or not to Manilow

One of the burning questions we are asked is whether or not we are going to see Barry Manilow while in Vegas. The Grammy, Emmy and Tony award winner is performing his show, Music and Passion, at the Las Vegas Hilton and has gotten some great reviews.

It seems like Barry would be the perfect thing for us to see. He's a cheesy Caucasian male and we're a couple cheesy Caucasian males. Barry has a made a living out of people laughing at him and Jay and Jason have made a ministry out of Youth laughing at them. Most fittingly Barry's Copacabana was the inspiration for Jason's ill-fated marriage to Vegas showgirl Stephanie a couple years ago.

However there are several factors that make us reconsider going to the show of the man who writes the songs that make the whole world sing. First off is cost. It is hard to justify spending $225 per ticket when that money could be used to help the needy, like the many Vegas regulars with painful rotator cuff injuries from pulling on the slot machine handles repetitively. Those poor souls... literally. In addition the demographic at Manilow concerts is mainly middle-aged women and the good Lord knows we don't need that type of female temptation. Finally we don't own the type of shiny clothes necessary to fit in at such a spectacle.

In the end we have regretfully decided not to go see Barry Manilow. The reasons not to go barely outweigh the reasons to go, but the deciding factor was that Barry isn't performing in Vegas the week we are there.

Maybe we'll get the DVD instead.