Barry Manilow underwent cancer surgery two days before Christmas to remove a lobe in his left lung. That’s half a lung, in non-medical vernacular, to eradicate a cancerous spot.
The 83-year-old entertainment legend was in intensive care for a week. He could not sing. He could barely talk. He wondered if he might have performed his final show.
“Oh, absolutely,” Manilow says in a phone chat the morning after Thursday night’s inspired return to Westgate’s International Theater. “When I got home, I weighed 128 pounds. That’s where this all started.”
Understand, if you don’t already, Manilow has always been lean (if not mean).
