The Show Won't Go On

‘The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage’ ...
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The livestream went dead for Mexican influencer Valeria Márquez, who was talking to her followers on TikTok from a beauty salon in Zapopan yesterday, May 13, 2025, when a masked man walked in and shot her. She was 23.
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The show did not go on and the rest of the weekend‘s performances were canceled on April 18, 2025, when actor Lucas Garcia collapsed after feeling unwell about 30 minutes into the play ‘1580 – Rebelión de los 7 Jefes’ in Santa Fe, Argentina. He was 68.

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The clock has stopped ticking forJamaican TikTok influencer Jabari Johnson, aka Baba Skeng, who was live streaming with another creator on Monday, April 28, when he was shot in the back of the head by a masked gunman. The son of reggae star Jah Mason, he was 25.

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The show won’t go on for Rubby Pérez, the merengue singer who was performing onstage at the Jet Set night club in Santo Domingo on April 8, 2025, when its roof collapsed, killing him and at least seventy-eight others.  He was 69.

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Andrej Gjorgieski, singer in hip-hop group DNK, & musicians Filip Stefanovski, Aleksandar Kolarov, Gorđi Gorđiev, Igor Velkov, backing singer Sara Projkovska & beatboxer Martin Atanasovski - among at least 59 killed in nightclub fire in Kocani, North Macedonia on Mar 16, 2025.

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The livestream suddenly went dead for Japanese online influencer Airi Sato, who was streaming on a Tokyo street yesterday, March 11, 2025, when she was stabbed to death by a man police say was a follower with a grudge. She was 22.
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The dance was cut short last night, February 8, for Parinita Jain, who was dancing onstage to a Bollywood tune at a wedding in Vidisha, India, when she collapsed from cardiac arrest. She was twenty-three.
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The online sex show won’t go on for OnlyFans model Anna Beatriz Pereira Alves, aka Anna Polly, who fell from a hotel balcony in Nova Iguacu, Brazil, on January 23, while filming content with two men. She was twenty-seven.
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The holiday shows won’t go on for Canadian actor Julien Arnold, who dropped dead onstage Nov 24 while appearing in A Christmas Carol at Edmondton’s Citadel Theatre. He played Marley and Fezziwig. He was 60.
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The Show Won’t Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage was published by Chicago Review Press on September 3, 2019 – five years ago today.
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#GGACP revisits an entertaining episode with this ENCORE presentation of an interview with author-historian JEFF ABRAHAM & filmmaker BURT KEARNS about their book @TheShowWontGoOn! Hear it NOW at https://t.co/EzwMXzG98w! @Franksantopadre @RealGilbert @tabloidbaby @MrComedyPR

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FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY, Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns were guests on Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast with Frank Santopadre, on the eve of the publication of The Show Won’t Go On. Thanks to Frank for reposting the episode on the fifth anniversary.
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The show did not go on for rapper Fatman Scoop, who collapsed during a show at Hamden Town Center Park in Connecticut, last night, Friday, August 30, 2024. The 3-time Grammy winner, born Isaac Freeman III, was 53.
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Jazz guitarist Russell Malone died on Friday, August 23, after a playing the Blue Note Tokyo club with the Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio. He was sixty. Carter announced that the tour of Japan will go on, as a duo.
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Onyeka Onwenu, the Nigerian singer, actor, broadcaster and activist, had just finished a performance at a private party on Tuesday night in Lagos when she became ill…
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The Nelons were making their way to Seattle to join a cruise ship they were due to perform on.
The band's management said Autumn - the youngest member of the family act - was awaiting the arrival of her parents and sister in Seattle when she was informed.
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The feast won’t go on for extreme eater Pan Xiaoting, who died July 14 during a mukbang livestream broadcast in which the host eats various amounts of food while interacting with viewers. The former waitress, who’d often eat 20+ pounds of food during 10 hour livestreams, was 24.

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There was no encore on July 13 for Brazil's “king of encores,” AYRES SASAKI. The rock star was electrocuted onstage when a fan in soaking clothes ran up and hugged him during a show at a hotel in Salinopolis, causing a cable to deliver a fatal charge. He was thirty-five.

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The song was cut short for rapper Rylo Huncho, who accidentally shot himself in the head on May 16 while livestreaming on Instagram at his home in Suffolk, Virginia. The social media celebrity (real name Raleigh Freeman III) was 17.
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The livestream went dead on Sunday, May, 12, for TikToker Nesaku, who was outside his home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, talking to his 100,000 followers, when he was shot four times by “hitmen.”
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