Event class: tour, show, stage, due, years, returned, performance, concert, continued, career

Events with high posterior probability

Avery Brundage	At the last moment, Brundage canceled the plans, choosing to have the surgery in Munich, near the home he had purchased in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, site of the 1936 Winter Olympics.
William Gillette	In 1929, at the age of 76, Gillette started the farewell tour of Sherlock Holmes, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Manno Charlemagne	His administrative responsibilities overshadowed his musical career, and one of his few public performances during that time was with the Haitian-American rap group, The Fugees, in Port-au-Prince in April 1997.
Bidu Say?o	After fifteen years with the Metropolitan Opera, she gave her last performance in 1952, choosing to retire from opera while still at the top of her form.
Albert Lortzing	On January 20, 1851, the night he was to attend the premiere of his musical comedy Die Opernprobe, Lortzing suffered a stroke and died without medical treatment on the morning of the following day, under huge stress and deeply in debt.
Lee Gordon (promoter)	Thinking that he had found a winning formula, Gordon booked a similar tour for 1957, featuring Lionel Hampton, Stan Kenton and vocalists Cathy Carr and Guy Mitchell, but his attempt to repeat the success of the Record Star Parade proved to be another financial disaster.
Kirsten Flagstad	Despite the great fanfare surrounding her return to the Met in early 1951, and her success in resuming her roles there, Flagstad decided that it would be her final year singing Wagner on the stage.
Viktor Dankl von Krasnik	His successful career met an abrupt end in 1916 due to both his performance on the Italian front and health issues.
Lily Pons	She also had a successful and lucrative career as a concert singer which continued until her retirement from performance in 1973.
Steven Tyler	The band was still using drugs, however, especially Tyler, who collapsed at a show in Springfield, Illinois, on the 1984 tour.
Jane Curtin	She later went on to be a replacement actress in two other plays : Love Letters and Noises Off, and was in the 2002 revival of Our Town, which received huge press attention as Paul Newman returned to the Broadway stage after several decades away.
Antonio Giuglini	Late in 1864 Giuglini accepted an engagement for a season in St Petersburg, but arrived to find that he was not required for Faust as Enrico Tamberlik had contrived to take that role.
Red Skelton	Declining ratings prompted sponsor Procter & Gamble to cancel his show in the spring of 1953, with Skelton announcing that any future television shows of his would be variety shows, where he would not have the almost constant burden of performing.
Rosel Zech	Following a cancer diagnosis in the summer of 2011, Zech had not been able to resume her regular role as a nun in the German TV series Um Himmels Willen (For Heaven's Sake).
Lauren Greenfield	, her first major show,'' Fast Forward'' had its US debut at the International Center for Photography (ICP) on April 25, 1997 and was extended two additional months due to high attendance and critical acclaim (April 25 - September 7, 1997).
Jake Hess	There were several dates in Missouri and Florida, but Jake determined that the travelling was going to be more demanding than he anticipated, so by 1990 the tours were put on hold with the possibility of doing something with television.
Michael Zaslow	Zaslow made several appearances before he was too ill to continue working ; his final appearance on One Life to Live was televised December 1, 1998, days before his death.
Wilber Moore Stilwell	The show,'' Rediscovered Talent... Wilber Stilwell,'' is expected to begin touring the United States in 2010 with scheduling to be announced.''
Lucille Ball	The 1960 Broadway musical Wildcat ended its run early when Ball became too ill to continue in the show.
Rowan Robertson	A reunion nearly took place in 2001 when Robertson was scheduled to replace Craig Goldy on tour in South Africa in support of Dio's then-new album Magica after Goldy suffered an injury.
Jujiro Wada	Wada signed up to run in Fairbanks' Independence Day Marathon, which was scheduled for July 1, 1909, but he fell ill and so did n't participate.
Frederick Gye	Gye failed entirely to appreciate Gounod's Faust, declining over and over again to mount it until obliged to do so by its great success at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1863.
Bert Bailey	After touring in the Barry Conners play The Patsy for 23 weeks in 1929, Bailey retired from performing, believing that talking films were making theatre unprofitable.
Erick Avari	Avari was scheduled to reprise in his role as Kasuf in the Stargate SG-1 Season Six finale'' Full Circle,'' but was unable to do so due to his commitment to Dragnet (2003).
Izumi Sakai	She has been able to record just the chorus in December 2006 despite being in cancer treatment at the time, and Sakai's mother is reported to have accompanied her to the recording studio.
Mark Russell	In 2010, Russell announced his retirement from public performances and made his last public performance July 2010 in Chautauqua, New York.
Ernst Lubitsch	Lubitsch sailed to the United States for the first time in December 1921 for what was intended as a lengthy publicity and professional factfinding tour, scheduled to culminate in the February premiere of Pharaoh.
Arik Einstein	For this reason he ceased to perform public concerts from the year of 1981 and on, despite many attractive offers.
Fritz Renold	1999 was a turning point when Renold quit touring to stay with his family, with one noteworthy exception.
Laurie Beechman	Set to take over the role of Fantine in the touring production of Les Misérables in late 1988, Beechman was diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
Elvis Presley	In 1968, following a seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed televised comeback special, Elvis, which led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours.
Robert Hardy	In February 2013, Hardy withdrew from his scheduled performance as Winston Churchill in Peter Morgan's play, The Audience, after suffering cracked ribs as the result of a fall.
Michael Bennett	He was then signed to direct the West End production of Chess but had to withdraw in January 1986 due to his failing health, leaving Trevor Nunn to complete the production using Bennett's already commissioned sets.
Murray Perahia	Owing to his hand problem, and on the advice of his doctor, Perahia cancelled a February 2008 solo recital at Barbican Centre and a tour in the United States with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (March and April 2008).
Jessie J	With the success of Who You Are in North America, Jessie was chosen to tour as the opening act for American pop artist Katy Perry's California Dreams Tour in 2011 but after she was unable to fully recover from her injuries during rehearsals she was forced to pull out under the doctor's orders.
Brooks Atkinson	His reviews were reputed to have the power to make or break a new stage production : for example, his panning in 1940 of Lawrence Riley's Return Engagement led to that comedy's closure after only eight performances, this despite the fact that Riley's previous comedy, Personal Appearance, had lasted for over 500 performances on Broadway.
Leontyne Price	When she brought the role to the Met in 1979, she was suffering from a viral infection and performed only the first and last of eight scheduled performances.
Allen Ravenstine	Ravenstine largely avoided musical activity of any kind after leaving Pere Ubu, once making a guest appearance at a Red Krayola show in Los Angeles in 2004.
Michael Bacon (musician)	With three albums to their credit by 2001, Bacon's tour schedule included eight concerts for the summer of that year, at venues from New York City, down the East Coast, and into the Midwest to Peru, Illinois and Missouri.
Corn?lie Falcon	Falcon resumed performances, but her vocal difficulties continued, and she gave her last regular performance there in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots on 15 January 1838.
Willie P. Bennett	During a 2007 Victoria Day weekend concert in Midland, Ontario, he suffered an on-stage heart attack -- which he played through but which forced him to stop touring.
Max Bemis	In June 2005, Say Anything was forced to cancel a six-week headlining tour with Circa Survive and Emanuel on the third day of the tour due to Bemis' health problems, including full-on paranoid delusions in Austin, Texas.
Austin Carlile	In 2010, Austin was unable to tour with Of Mice & Men, because he needed to have major heart surgery, and his health prevented him from touring.
Monty Woolley	After completing his last film, Kismet (1955), he returned to radio for about a year, after which he was forced to retire due to ill health.
Elephant Man (musician)	In 2009, his scheduled appearance at Toronto's Caribana festival was cancelled for similar reasons.
Bob Seger	On December 30, 2011, before a sell-out crowd at the Mandalay Bay Resort Arena in Las Vegas, Seger closed another successful tour though it's likely not to be his last.
Lepa Brena	In August 2012, she was forced to cancel three months of scheduled concerts to deal with further complications with her illness.
Jah Wobble	In early 2012, after some planned Japan gigs were cancelled because of visa issues, Wobble and Levene played various UK clubs as Metal Box in Dub.
Bob Wills	Wills had a heart attack in 1962 and a second one the next year, which forced him to disband the Playboys although Wills continued to perform solo.
Joe "Tiger" Patrick II	He gained weight in preparation for the walk in 2013, and plans to complete one final walk after the war has ended and the memorial panel has been updated one last time.
Naomi Tani	In 1979, after reigning for five years as Nikkatsu's'' Queen Of S&M,'' Tani retired suddenly and unexpectedly at the height of her popularity.
Guilhermina Suggia	She retired in 1939, but emerged from retirement to give concerts in Britain.
Kamuela C. Searle	Though he was hurt enough that a double completed a few final long shots, Searle recovered from his injuries and completed one more film, Cecil B. DeMille's Fool's Paradise (1921), before he retired from acting to concentrate on sculpting and painting.
Ervin Nyiregyh?zi	In 1978, he was offered return concerts at Carnegie Hall, but he declined.
Walter Gieseking	Although there had been other protests (in Australia and Peru, for example), his 1949 American tour was the only group of concerts actually cancelled due to the outcry.
Simon Le Bon	Le Bon injured his vocal cords and was unable to finish his 2011 summer tour.
Charlie Kunz	The band returned without Kunz to Pennsylvania after a successful run at the' Troc' and, until 1998, still got together for sessions for retirement homes, renamed as' The B Flats'.
Lena Horne	Thereafter, Horne essentially retired from performing and largely retreated from public view, though she did return to the recording studio in 2000 to contribute vocal tracks on Simon Rattle's Classic Ellington album.
Robert Urich	He was declared cancer free in 1998 and returned to television in the UPN series, The Love Boat : The Next Wave.
Humphrey Lyttelton	On 18 April 2008 Jon Naismith, the producer of I'm Sorry I Have n't A Clue, announced cancellation of the spring series owing to Humphrey Lyttelton's hospitalisation to repair an aortic aneurysm.
David Larible	After a three-year guest appearance at the Italian Circus Togni, Larible Cesar returns to Munich back to the Circus Krone, where he remained until 1989.
Gareth Gates	In January 2009, Gates confirmed in an interview with the Daily Mail that he has no plans to go back to the pop music scene in the near future, planning instead to concentrate on musical theatre, as he had just been cast in the lead role in Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Adelphi Theatre, London.
Keith Levene	In early 2012, after some planned Japan gigs were cancelled because of visa issues, Levene and Wobble played various UK clubs as Metal Box in Dub.
Janet Baker	Following her retirement as a singer she did perform and record some spoken roles, for example the role of the Narrator in Britten's incidental music for The Rescue of Penelope ; in later years, apart from occasional public appearances such as the 2009 Leeds event, she now has'' nothing to do with anyone except close friends''.
Count Basie	thumb | Count Basie (left) in concert (Cologne 1975) During the balance of the 1960s, the band kept busy with tours, recordings, television appearances, festivals, Las Vegas shows, and travel abroad, including cruises.
P. P. Arnold	In 1984, she returned to the stage in the cast of the musical Starlight Express as Belle the Sleeping Car, after which she worked with a number of noted British acts including Boy George as well as working on several movie soundtrack s. Weeks before beginning a tour with Billy Ocean, Arnold's legs were badly injured in a car accident, although she went ahead with the Ocean tour, at first appearing on crutches, but her injuries eventually forced her to leave the tour after ten weeks.
Angela Gheorghiu	In March 2011 she cancelled all her scheduled performances of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette at the Met, citing illness.
Bernhard Schlink	A January 2008 literary tour, including an appearance in San Francisco for City Arts & Lectures, was cancelled due to Schlink's recovery from minor surgery.
Crissy Rock	In 1991, following a period of ill health, Crissy returned to the stage, taking bookings on the club and cabaret circuit.
George Strait	On September 26, 2012, Strait announced that he is retiring from touring, and that The Cowboy Rides Away Tour will be his last.
Charlotte d'Amboise	In early 2005, d'Amboise replaced Christina Applegate in the Boston leg of the pre-Broadway tour of the revival of Sweet Charity, as well as the first few weeks of previews on Broadway, following a foot injury sustained by Applegate that nearly cancelled the production.
Go Seigen	Go Seigen's star began to fade in the early 1960s due to health reasons and he had to virtually retire from playing professional Go by 1964.
Patty Loveless	Although Loveless went ahead and sang in the television special, her manager canceled all of her tour dates for the rest of 1992.
Sarah Vaughan	During a run at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club in 1989, Vaughan received a diagnosis of lung cancer and was too ill to finish the final day of what would turn out to be her final series of public performances.
Fred Honsberger	Fred underwent gastric bypass surgery in 2004 and during his rehab stint he broadcast from his home studio until he was able to return to the KDKA studios.
Jascha Heifetz	After an only partially successful operation on his right shoulder in 1972, Heifetz ceased giving concerts and making records.
Dan Leno	Leno continued to appear in musical comedies and his own music hall routines until 1902, although he suffered increasingly from alcoholism.
Perry Como	Como suffered a debilitating fall from a stage platform in 1971 while taping Perry Como's Winter Show in Hollywood.
El Hachemi Guerouabi	Despite his illness, Guerouabi continued to produce music, play in concerts around the world and play at weddings, but in February 2005 he had undergone a surgery that resulted in the amputation of his leg and his decision to quit music.
Angela Lansbury	Although cast in the lead role in the 2001 Kander and Ebb musical The Visit, she withdrew from the show before it opened because of her husband's declining health.
Jeremey Hunsicker	As a result, he cancelled all remaining shows that were scheduled for 2011.
Celine Dion	She returned to the top of pop music in 2002 and signed a three-year (later extended to almost five years) contract to perform nightly in a five-star theatrical show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada.
Sydney Newman	Although Police Surgeon was not a success and was cancelled after only a short run, Debuting in January 1961, The Avengers became an international success, although in later years its premise differed somewhat from Newman's initial set-up, veering into more humorous territory rather than remaining a gritty thriller.
Arnold Palmer	He retired from tournament golf on October 13, 2006, when he withdrew from the Champions Tours' Administaff Small Business Classic after four holes due to dissatisfaction with his own play.
Bindi Irwin	Her father was filmed in many of the early shows before his death in September 2006, when production was temporarily put on hold.
Fred Billington	He left the Savoy in April of that year because of illness, and so he was unable to appear as Shadbolt in the 1897 revival of Yeomen as had been planned, the part going to Henry Lytton instead.
Harold Ballard	On the second tour, in 1965, Ballard sold tickets for two shows, even though the agreement had been for only one.
Arthur Godfrey	On October 19, 1953, near the end of his morning radio show -- deliberately waiting until after the television portion had ended -- after lavishing praise on LaRosa in introducing the singer's performance of'' Manhattan,'' Godfrey thanked him and then announced that this was LaRosa's'' swan song'' with the show, adding,'' He goes now, out on his own -- as his own star -- soon to be seen on his own programs, and I know you'll wish him godspeed as much as I do''.
J. Regina Hyland	In 2007, Hyland was scheduled to appear at the SFVS World Vegetarian Weekend Festival in San Francisco, when she suddenly fell ill.
Jean-Pierre Ferland	On October 12, 2006 Jean-Pierre Ferland had a stroke caused by fatigue and stress, causing him to cancel his final concert at the Bell Centre the following day.
Andr? Watts	By 1969 he was on a full-scale concert schedule, booked three years in advance.
Frank Sinatra	On June 13, 1971 -- at a concert in Hollywood to raise money for the Motion Picture and TV Relief Fund -- at the age of 55, Sinatra announced that he was retiring, bringing to an end his 36-year career in show business.
Eric Boswell (songwriter)	And early in 2009, despite failing health, Boswell attended a recording session for Graeme Danby's second album of his songs, which included a golden anniversary' duet' of Little Donkey between Danby and Gracie Fields, some 30 years after the latter had died.
Faith Brown	On 10 August 2007, she collapsed on stage, and was replaced by her understudy Anna Stolli for the following performance, leading to fears about her health.
Yul Brynner	In January 1985, nine months before his death, the tour reached New York for a farewell Broadway run.
Larry Wallis	A comeback gig for The Fairies was planned for The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London on 22 January 2007, however, this was cancelled due to Wallis having a trapped nerve in his back.
Roberto Carlos (singer)	In 1999, the worsening state of health of Maria Rita, followed by her death in December of that year, made the singer failed to make the traditional end of year special on Rede Globo and to record a new album.
Bob Wills	By 1971, Wills recovered sufficiently to travel occasionally and appear at tribute concerts.
Meat Loaf	On November 17, 2003, during a performance at London's Wembley Arena, on his Could n't Have Said It Better tour, he collapsed of what was later diagnosed as Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
Draco Rosa	On January 28, 2012, Draco made a comeback to the public light after his long absence due to cancer treatment to announce a concert in which he will be sharing the stage with Juan Luis Guerra and Rubén Blades.