Lionel Richie outrages 20K fans after canceling Earth Wind & Fire’s MSG show an hour after start time due to weather: ‘Waiting all night long’
nypost.comtweeted at 8:31 p.m. The show was scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m.“I’m so bummed. We are rescheduling the show to Monday Aug 14.
Can’t wait to perform for you all. Tickets for tonight’s show are valid for the show on Monday.”Video from inside the packed arena shows dejected fans booing and taking to the aisles as a spokesperson announced that the show had been canceled.Footage also showed fans discussing whether or not they’d be able to return to Manhattan on Monday.Earth Wind and Fire is scheduled to play a show at the Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, Connecticut, without Richie on Monday.
It’s not clear if they would be performing at the Garden or there that night.“There was a lot of anger,” a pediatric nurse who paid $170 for nosebleed seats told The Post.“We went out of the way to get the weekend off and now I can’t go on Monday,” said the nurse, who came in from Long Island with her husband and coworker. “Does he think it’s easy for me to take off Monday night?
This is New York. We work.”Asked what she’d say to the “Hello” singer after the snafu, she said, “Hope you’re OK but you should have taken a limo for your fans for four hours.
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