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    Rock/Pop

    MANILOW: The Last Newark Concert

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    Friday, June 26, 2026

    7:00 PM

    Prudential Center

    25 Lafayette Street, Newark, NJ 07102

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter whose work sits between pop songcraft and arena-scale rock presentation. His live reputation was cemented early; a 1977 concert album became his first release to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200, showing how his material translates onstage. He appears at Prudential Center for "MANILOW: The Last Newark Concert," a show shaped more by clear melodies and direct audience rapport than by elaborate theatrics.

    About MANILOW: The Last Newark Concert

    At Prudential Center, *MANILOW: The Last Newark Concert* documents Barry Manilow returning to a nearby arena stage for a live Rock/Pop set framed as a farewell to this stop on the circuit. The show is built around the long arc of his catalog, with arrangements designed for a room this size and an audience that knows the choruses. In the New York–New Jersey metro area, where Manilow’s career has long overlapped with mainstream nightlife and radio culture, the event reads as a regional marker as much as a performance. The material holds up best when it resists nostalgia and lands on craft.

    About the Artist

    Barry Manilow

    Barry Manilow

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    Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter whose work sits at the intersection of pop songcraft and arena-scale rock presentation. His live reputation was cemented early; a 1977 concert album became his first release to reach No.