Barry Manilow

" It will be Manilow's first appearance on Broadway in more than two decades. He underwent emergency oral surgery on December 7 1986 at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles to remove a non-cancerous cyst in his upper jaw that exploded. To help in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 for every US dollar donated by his fans to the American Red Cross through the Manilow Fund for Health and Hope website Manilow personally matched and the fund itself also matched tripling the original donation.

Several well-known entertainers have praised Manilow including Sinatra who was quoted in the 1970s saying "He's next. Since March 2010 he has headlined at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas. We're all inspired by you.