Songs producer Clive Davis, New York City Mayor Monthly bill de Blasio, hundreds of eager concert-goers, and CNN all got a firsthand lesson in a Yiddish proverb on Saturday: “Man designs, God laughs.”
The substantially-anticipated We Appreciate NYC: The Homecoming Concert on Central Park’s Fantastic Lawn, introduced in late July and simulcast on CNN, was supposed to stand for a mostly-vaccinated city’s return to a semblance of normalcy. Tickets to the outside function had been no cost, and 1 had to demonstrate proof of vaccination to show up at.
But lightning strikes in the location, in progress of the swiftly approaching Hurricane Henri, prompted organizers to pull the plug on the show midway through a Barry Manilow medley. The Brooklyn-born entertainer sang “Copacabana,” “Mandy,” and fifty percent of “I Simply cannot Smile With no You” before a stentorian voice interrupted and instructed the audience to look for shelter. (At least Manilow was a person of his term and did not sing “I Made It Through The Rain.”)
The sudden announcement led to a good deal of confusion, with Mayor de Blasio stating from the phase that men and women must, “for a transient period of time of time, move to someplace safe” and that afterward, they would convey the live performance back again.
Suppose you were being fortunate plenty of to be viewing CNN at the time, as I was. In that circumstance, you’d have heard Anderson Cooper demonstrate an being familiar with of New York City bigger than its outgoing mayor when he pointed out that there is not truly any spot to go in the center of Central Park at evening.
A New York Put up reporter on the scene tweeted that a PA announcement urged audiences to “proceed to your vehicles,” which indicates that there’s a wonderful large parking good deal upcoming to the Fantastic Lawn. (There is not.) A single could easily wager that virtually all the New Yorkers who attended the exhibit termed the 6 or the 1 trains their automobiles, if not their possess two ft.
There were being subsequent studies that the musicians may conduct to an vacant industry, just for the television audience, but at 10:30 pm, the occasion was formally called off.