What happened on Thursday April 3rd?

Aretha Franklin is canceled. Wife and I had tickets to go see her at Rama tonight. We get a call last night, letting us know that the "star" has canceled the show for personal reasons, but we will be reimbursed the purchase price of the tickets.

One of the women I worked with cracked a joke that there "Won't be any R-E-S-P-E-C-T for Aretha tonight"

Arrgh! and I was really looking forward to going.