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Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Look: Alexa Ray Joel supports ailing dad Billy: 'We love you and we got you'
May 25 (UPI) -- Singer Alexa Ray Joel posted a message on Instagram this weekend in support of her father, rock 'n' roll legend Billy Joel, who announced he is battling a brain disorder called normal pressure hydrocephalus. Billy, 76, canceled 17 upcoming concerts while he undergoes treatment for the condition. "We love you and we got you, Pop! I just wanted to thank you all for the beautiful outpouring of love and support amid the recent news of My Father's health diagnosis," Alexa Ray, 39, wrote Saturday. "My Dad is the strongest and most resilient man I've ever known... and he's entirely committed to making a full recovery with ongoing physical-therapy treatments as he continues to regain his strength," she added. "The genuine care, empathy, and concern from everyone means so much to him... it means a lot to me, too. 'Someday We'll All Be Gone / But Lullabies Go On And On / They Never Die / That's How You And I Will Be.' The music continues... All My Love, Alexa Ray." A documentary about Billy is set to open this year's Tribeca Film Festival in New York in June. It will later air on HBO. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer wrapped up his 10-year, monthly residency at MSG in 2024 after his career 150th performance at the venue. Joel is known for hits like "Movin' Out," "My Life," "You May Be Right," "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant," "Only the Good Die Young," "Piano Man," "Uptown Girl," "Pressure" and "We Didn't Start the Fire."
UPI
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Look: Alexa Ray Joel supports ailing dad Billy: 'We love you and we got you'
1 of 2 | Billy Joel speaks on his monthly concerts at MSG coming to an end at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 2023. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo May 25 (UPI) -- Singer Alexa Ray Joel posted a message on Instagram this weekend in support of her father, rock 'n' roll legend Billy Joel, who announced he is battling a brain disorder called normal pressure hydrocephalus. Billy, 76, canceled 17 upcoming concerts while he undergoes treatment for the condition. "We love you and we got you, Pop! I just wanted to thank you all for the beautiful outpouring of love and support amid the recent news of My Father's health diagnosis," Alexa Ray, 39, wrote Saturday. "My Dad is the strongest and most resilient man I've ever known... and he's entirely committed to making a full recovery with ongoing physical-therapy treatments as he continues to regain his strength," she added. "The genuine care, empathy, and concern from everyone means so much to him... it means a lot to me, too. 'Someday We'll All Be Gone / But Lullabies Go On And On / They Never Die / That's How You And I Will Be.' The music continues... All My Love, Alexa Ray." A documentary about Billy is set to open this year's Tribeca Film Festival in New York in June. It will later air on HBO. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer wrapped up his 10-year, monthly residency at MSG in 2024 after his career 150th performance at the venue. Joel is known for hits like "Movin' Out," "My Life," "You May Be Right," "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant," "Only the Good Die Young," "Piano Man," "Uptown Girl," "Pressure" and "We Didn't Start the Fire."
Business Insider
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Insider
How to get Billy Joel tickets: Rescheduled dates and prices compared
After announcing the end of his Madison Square Garden residency this year, the demand for Billy Joel concert tickets has grown, especially with the singer's recently announced postponement due to health issues. Thankfully, there are still a few avenues to explore if you're interested in how to get Billy Joel tickets for his 2025 and 2026 concert tour dates. Previously scheduled to continue through the spring of this year, Joel's tour has now been moved to take place in late 2025 through the spring and summer of 2026. The "Piano Man" singer has held an MSG residency since 2014, setting a record for the most shows at the New York City arena for solo artists. But, after a decade of monthly shows at Madison Square Garden, the curtains closed on his residency in July 2024. While his MSG residency has concluded, the singer's long-running "Billy Joel in Concert" tour will still return in various cities across the United States. Joel also has a few international tour dates scheduled. As of writing, Joel will be hitting major cities across the US, Canada, and the UK after his medical recovery. The upcoming concerts include highly-anticipated collaborations with legends like Sting, Stevie Knicks, and Rod Stewart. As such, there are various opportunities to see Billy Joel sing his hits like "Vienna," "Movin' Out," and "Uptown Girl" in 2025. We've got you covered if you're looking for ways to buy tickets to Billy Joel's concert tour. Here's our breakdown of the "Billy Joel in Concert" 2025 tour schedule, purchasing details, and original and resale ticket prices. You can also browse available tickets at your leisure on StubHub and Vivid Seats. Billy Joel 2025 tour schedule In the table below, you'll find the cheapest starting prices listed on Vivid Seats and StubHub at the time of publication. The dates with a "*" indicate that the show is part of Billy Joel and Sting's "One Night Only" concert series. The dates with a "**" indicate that Joel will perform alongside Stevie Knicks. Dates marked with a "***" feature Rod Stewart alongside Joel. How to buy tickets for Billy Joel's 2025 concert tour You can buy standard original tickets for Billy Joel's 2025 concerts through Ticketmaster, although the remaining tickets are limited in some locations. Tickets for Billy Joel's tour are also available to buy through verified resale vendors such as StubHub and Vivid Seats, which tend to offer more variety in pricing and seating availability. How much are Billy Joel tickets? Tickets to see Billy Joel cost substantially more for his Madison Square Garden performances than his alternate US shows due to high demand. Now that those dates are over, the least expensive standard ticket overall is $39.50 in Indianapolis. Billy Joel ticket prices are generally about the same price or less expensive on resale sites. The cheapest ticket prices on Vivid Seats start at $70 for Joel's concert in Indianapolis. Meanwhile, StubHub's prices are generally comparable, with the vendor's least expensive Billy Joel ticket price being $68 for that same Indianapolis date. The most expensive listings start at $362 on Vivid Seats and $687 on StubHub for Joel's Uncasville show. The cheapest remaining original tickets for this show start at $936.35 on Ticketmaster. Who is opening for Billy Joel's tour? So far, Billy Joel hasn't confirmed any opening acts for his 2024 and 2025 concert tour dates. However, Joel will co-headline select concerts with Sting, Stevie Knicks, and Rod Stewart. Will there be international tour dates? Yes, Billy Joel has three international dates scheduled. He'll perform in Toronto on March 15, Edinburgh on June 7, and Liverpool on June 21. Note: Certain services and regions prohibit the resale of tickets. Business Insider does not endorse or condone the illegal reselling of tickets, and entry into an event is at the venue's discretion.
Los Angeles Times
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Review: Twyla Tharp at her best in ‘Aguas da Amazonia' premiere with Philip Glass score
When Martha Graham founded her company 100 years ago, she instigated a dance revolution in America. We've now had a century of modern dance, led by the likes of Merce Cunningham, George Balanchine and many others whose modernism delved into the very essence of the body's ability to express the ineffable. One of the key modernist figures formed her dance company 60 years ago as a motley troop of five women who danced spontaneously outdoors for passersby. It was, after all, the 1960s. But the diamond jubilee tour of Twyla Tharp Dance, which began a series of Southern California performances in Santa Barbara on Tuesday night, gradually evolved into one of the country's most popular companies, taking dance into a new and surprising direction. Over those six decades, Tharp had her ups and downs — the company disbanded and reformed. But neither she nor her often startling dancers (star ballerina Misty Copeland has been a longtime Tharpian) ever lost their spunk. By now, Tharp, more than anyone in the business, has done it all. But if doing it all has been Tharp's greatest contribution to modern dance, then that has meant she hasn't always been taken as seriously as other innovators. In the otherwise indispensable Library of America anthology 'Dance in America,' Tharp comes across as little more than an afterthought. Having absorbed Graham, Cunningham, Paul Taylor and Balanchine, Tharp hardly stopped there. She danced and choreographed for ballet companies as well as for modern dance companies (hers and others), for Broadway (incredibly creating the long-running collaboration with Billy Joel, 'Movin' Out'). She choreographed for and partnered with Mikhail Baryshnikov, expanding his dance horizons far beyond his classical Russian mastery. And then there was Hollywood. The astounding dances in 'Hair.' Her opera stagings in 'Amadeus.' Still, anything goes and doesn't in Tharp. Her work doesn't begin with theory or concept but with her body and her many surprising musical seductions. She first came to shocking fame by using the Beach Boys in a ballet for Robert Joffrey. But she grew up in Rialto, outside San Bernardino, with Beethoven (her mother was a pianist) and has created a number of dances to Beethoven, as she has with Brahms, Mozart, Bach, Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. She has a special feel for Philip Glass. Her most irresistible work and a huge hit was the 1996 'In the Upper Room,' for which Glass wrote one of his finest dance scores. A decade ago, Tharp celebrated her 50th anniversary with a relatively conventional tour program that reached the Wallis in Beverly Hills. This time, she isn't fooling around. For her diamond jubilee, the 83-year-old Tharp has remounted a major Beethoven work, 'Diabelli,' from 1998, and created a major new Glass dance, 'Slacktide,' of which UC Santa Barbara was a co-commissioner. Both scores featured live music, Russian pianist Vladimir Rumyantsev playing Beethoven's 'Diabelli' Variations offstage and Third Coast Percussion performing Glass' 'Aguas da Amazonia' in the pit. Beethoven's 33 variations on a theme by a certain businessman named Diabelli seems tailor-made for Tharp. Beethoven was one of 51 composers to whom a publisher sent a commonplace melody in hopes of a getting single variation from each for a volume that would benefit victims of war. Beethoven typically couldn't stop himself. His 55-minute set of variations, his last major work — and his largest — for solo piano is a compendium of what the composer could do and what the keyboard instrument of 1825 could do. Rather than feeling epic, it is a riot of invention, and Tharp responds in kind. Ballet loves variation, short episodes featuring one fancy bit of choreography after another. Tharp can't stop herself either. She is full of humor and whimsy, creating every imaginable kind of playful and play-acting partnering. There is little rest and lots of exhausting joy. One problem, however, was the grotesque amplification of the offstage piano, to the point where it felt like Beethoven was practically bullying the dancers. Glass' score to 'Aguas da Amazionia' (Waters of the Amazon), written for a Brazilian dance company around the same time Tharp choreographed 'Diabelli,' is peculiar but radiant. The subtitle is 'Seven or Eight Pieces for Dance.' There wound up being nine, if you wanted to do it that way. But Glass left it to ensembles to orchestrate their own versions. The first was by the lively Brazilian percussion ensemble Uakti, which uses a variety of fabulously weird instruments, Indigenous and new (a glass marimba being one). It's also been adapted, poorly, for orchestra. The Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion has found its way in, not as strangely as Uakti but beautifully. Tharp's 'In the Room' was sheer exuberance, Nearly four decades later, Tharp hardly seems to have slowed down her dance, but 'Aquas' does have a statelier sheen. The lighting illumines each river in brilliantly bright backdrop colors. The arresting dancers have not lost whimsy but are here reflective. There is nothing exactly watery in the movement or the music. Mature ritual instead replaces frolic. Dancers exude individuality and purpose. Their phrases, complex yet seemingly effortless, often direct our vision beyond their bodies to others or to the light glowing behind them, as if in reverence of the Amazonian waters and wonders, ever in need of preservation. 'Slacktide' may well be Tharp's most moving and beautiful ballet. The amplification managed to illuminate Third Coast, which was joined by flutist Constance Volk. Rivers of deep, deep bass flowed under tingling treble waves. The program reaches Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa on Saturday and Sunday, and then the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert on Tuesday and the Soraya at Cal State Northridge the following weekend, Feb. 22-23. Rumyantsev will peform live, but 'Aguas' will be with recorded music. Tharp's diamond Jubilee tour continues on to Santa Fe, N.M., and New York, among other stops. It's supposed to reach Washington, D.C., on March 26, although the tide has turned at the Kennedy Center, another co-sponsor of 'Slacktide.' Will the show go on? Will it be enough that Tharp has made another great new American dance?
