I'm pretty sure he didn't get much in the way of front money, anyway.Try robbing $1 from your local bank.
Breach of contract is not a criminal offense. Robbery is. If you refuse understand the difference I don’t care to try to explain it to you.
No Shows for concerts or performances have always been Civil Court matters not criminal ones. It’s been such ever since. No shows have happened quite frequently even among more reliable named preformers. My guess is in this case age and other factors are catching up and he can’t hit the notes. I saw a Youtube video of him singing Bridge over Troubled Water and he got off synch on the verses or parts of them anyway. But I’ve also seen an early video of The Beatles singing Help and they too screwed up. John was singing one verse {wrong one & even the wrong words} and George and Paul were singing another. LOL