OCEAN CITY — Comedian and car enthusiast Jay Leno’s scheduled performance in Ocean City set for October has been cancelled, event promoters confirmed on Tuesday.
Leno was scheduled to present his stand-up routine at the Performing Arts Center in the Roland E. Powell Convention Center on Oct. 6-7 in conjunction with the Endless Summer Cruisin event. Ocean City Concerts confirmed on Tuesday Leno’s scheduled performances in Ocean City had been cancelled.
The cancellation comes after the concert was moved because of COVID-related issues. Leno was first scheduled to appear last fall at the Performing Arts Center, but the show was postponed and moved to May during the spring Cruisin event. With the pandemic still lingering, that May show was moved to this Oct. 6-7. On Tuesday, Ocean City Concerts promoter Bob Rothermel said the October shows had been cancelled for a variety of reasons, not all related to the pandemic.
“After all of the attempts to reschedule because of the pandemic, the date just didn’t work for them,” he said. “We looked for several play dates, but other conflicts arose, so we mutually decided to start over from square one for future routing.”
It was the second time in as many weeks that a major performance scheduled in Ocean City was postponed or cancelled. Last week, Ocean City Concerts announced country music star Brad Paisley’s concert scheduled on the beach on Sept. 5 had been rescheduled for June 12, 2022.
Fast rewind: At the beginning of the COVID panic in OC Town Officials panicked and simply shut down without a plan to move forward. Here we are 2 years later tryin to figure out how to move forward. They have an understaffed Transportation Department (buses, Trams) as well as a Waste collection department. Their only response is to wait until after the season is over then try to figure out what do then. Not much progress in 2 years.
The same goes for their inability to manage big name venues such Leno but in this case, they canceled him so many times he finally figure out why bother, they’re an overgrown beach town.
Inability to cope is a bad thing. The Pandemic is over. We’ve all been exposed to the Covid. We either got sick or we didn’t. It’s now endemic and will flare up every flu season, just like the seasonal flu. It is what it is, stop the scare tactics. I have HQL, Ivermectin and the rest in my fridge from India in case I get sick of if one of my friends do.
It’s no longer a big deal after 2 years unless you allowed yourself to be unprepared, Just stop living in fear!
At least that’s one good thing about Ocean City.