They were all guest artists at the Billy Joel concert in Shea Stadium last night.
This artical forgot a big star, but it's pretty well written anyway.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/19/nyregion/19joel.html
A couple days ago my co-worker, Jeff, casually mentioned in an e-mail that he was going to the Billy Joel concert to which I jokingly replied "wow! You happen to have any extra tickets??" He said he might have two! I didn't want to get my hopes up, after all this concert was SOLD OUT in February, it was the last concert to be performed at Shea Stadium, and WHO WOULD TURN DOWN BILLY JOEL TICKETS?!?! But yesterday morning he told me the tickets were miraculously still available. So, of course, one of your beloved Broadway Bloopers spent the night with her good friend Billy (B-ster to the close friends).
Regardless of the fact that the stadium ran out of alcohol half-way through the concert- and they apparently bought over 450,000 cases of beer- the entire concert was fused with energy from an eclectic crowd of stoners, parents, bikers, youngsters, and hipsters. One of the biggest highlights of the night for me was looking around at everyone attempting (and mostly failing) to get out all the words to "We didn't start the fire" and accidently catching a show in the back of the stands. Subsequently the huge group in front of us took out binoculars and focused on the XXX show for about 20 minutes, giving my group the play by play. And there's always that wasted chick that you think is hysterical. Ours was standing next to us later in the night and when her beloved Garth Brooks came onstage she told us that if we were closer to the stage she would flash him. When Paul McCartney entered the stage for the final encore, she decided it was time to flash.... from the upper deck.
In the end, it didn't matter that we were too far back for the sound systems to work correctly and the lights to impact us. It was great to be there for a night of star-studded performances and emotional farewells. A night when the great Billy Joel decided to turn the stage over to the legendary Paul McCartney for the last song on the Shea Stadium stage.... "Let it Be"
What a night. What a performer.
~B
1 comment:
I'm so jealous.
They RAN OUT of alcohol? I had no idea that was possible. I thought big stadiums like that had an underground well or a direct line to a beer distillery or something.
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