Barry Manilow. Bruce Sussman. The Manhattan Transfer. Marx Brothers. Comedian Harmonists.

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Mar. 25, 2022
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Barry Manilow. Bruce Sussman. The Manhattan Transfer. Marx Brothers. Comedian Harmonists.

From the Grammy Award-winning team of Barry Manilow & Bruce Sussman Directed & choreographed by Tony Award winner Warren Carlyle (The Music Man) The true story of the greatest musical comedy group of the 1920s and 30s - and why you've never heard of them. i?? LIMITED TIME OFFER! Use code HMNY49 to get $49 tickets now through the April 13 matinee. i?? HARMONY - A New Musical tells the true story of the Comedian Harmonists, an ensemble of six talented young men in 1920s Germany who took the world by storm with their signature blend of sophisticated close harmonies and uproarious stage antics until their inclusion of Jewish singers put them on a collision course with history. i?? i?? i?? "Back in 2019, The New York Times trumpeted that after taking off at the La Jolla Playhouse in 1997 and spending more than two decades circling the runway, Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman's labor-of-love musical "Harmony" - about the German vocal sextet the Comedian Harmonists, which was immensely popular between the two world wars - was going to have its Off-Broadway premiere. In the spring of 2020. Now, the show is finally arriving, with the choreographer-director Warren Carlyle overseeing a cast led by Chip Zien and Sierra Boggess. If nothing else, this is another sign that after its Yiddish version of "Fiddler on the Roof" and its recent collaboration with New York City Opera on "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis," the producing National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene has become a force on the New York musical landscape." - Elisabeth Vincentelli i?? "... Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman's musical-based on the history of the Comedian Harmonists, a musical group that flourished in Weimar Germany but ran afoul of the Nazis-finally makes its NYC debut. Warren Carlyle (After Midnight) directs and choreographs the production for National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, the centenarian troupe behind the much-loved recent Yiddish-language version of Fiddler on the Roof. Chip Zien (Into the Woods) and Sierra Boggess (The Little Mermaid) lead the cast." i?? "Barry Manilow writes the songs, and now he's written a musical with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. Co-written with Bruce Sussman, this new musical is based on the true story of the Comedian Harmonists, a musical group of six [ ] men who were world-famous until World War II split them up. You might think such a real-life tale would be a jukebox musical, but Manilow has written original songs for Harmony, which promises to be a passion project with catchy tunes. Take your Fanilows or anyone in your life who is a music history buff." i?? The NYTF production of Harmony is co-produced by Ken Davenport and Sandi Moran with Garry Kief, Amuse, Inc., Tom and Michael D'Angora, Susan DuBow, Michelle Kaplan, Mapleseed Productions, Harold Matzner and Neil Gooding Productions in association with Wilfried Rimensberger and Stiletto Entertainment. Miranda Gohh is associate producer. Davenport most recently won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical for Once on This Island and the Tony Award for Best Musical for Kinky Boots, and received Tony Award nominations for Spring Awakening (Revival of a musical), The Visit (Musical), and You're Welcome America (Special Theatrical Event). Harmony is based in part on The Comedian Harmonist Archive as curated by the late Dr. Peter Czada. Barry Manilow is a registered trademark of Hastings, Clayton, & Tucker Inc.


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