Sheldon benefit concert cancelled

Tickets were supposed to have gone on sale yesterday for the September 28 concert by Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.to benefit the Friends of the Sheldon. Instead, there's word via this page at STLtoday that the show has been cancelled. The Sheldon's Web site, which earlier this week had a page devoted to the show, now has no mention of the concert or its cancellation at all. (Here's Google's cache of the page in question.)

So what happened? Hard to say without more information. The tour schedule at Marsalis' Web site shows no live appearances at all for that week, and Connick's Web site also says he has no dates scheduled. It was announced on Tuesday that Connick will star next year in a revival of the Broadway musical "Pajama Game," but since previews don't even begin until the end of January, it seems unlikely (though possible, I suppose) that the producers couldn't spare him for a single day in late September. Or maybe, as I speculated in an earlier post, someone just looked at the calendar, did the math regarding potential attendance, and realized that scheduling this event on the same evening as the Wayne Shorter concert wasn't such a great idea after all.