THE ANGELS' SHARE in Concert: A New Original Musical by the BREITHAUPT BROTHERS at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater

Three-time Fred Ebb Award finalists the Breithaupt Brothers will present the first concert performance of their new original musical, The Angels' Share, at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater on April 29, 7 pm. Details and tickets here.

This one-night-only concert from the writing team behind Seeing Stars brings their newest work to thrilling life, performed by a sparkling lineup of special guests, including Jake Bryan, Alvin Crawford, Oliver Finke, Aisha de Haas, Michael Halling, Joan Hess, Daelynn Carter Jorif, Jeremy Kushnier, Marissa Mulder, Don Noble, Sarah Thorn, and Michael Winther. 

With music by Don Breithaupt, lyrics by Jeff Breithaupt, and a story by Jeff Breithaupt and Shelley McPherson, The Angels’ Share unfolds in a single bar over the course of a century. Characters from different eras pass through this timeless room – overseen by an enigmatic, unchanging barkeep – their lives quietly interconnected, linked to a WWII-era American GI and the fiancée he left behind. 

In whiskey-making, “the angels’ share” refers to the small amount of spirit lost to evaporation during the aging process, but in this lyrical and deeply human new musical, the phrase becomes a metaphor for something more elusive: the small portion of time given to every human life, and what we choose to do with it before it slips away.

With “songs worthy of the Great American Songbook” (CBC Radio) and a “gift for tuneful theatrical fare” (The New Yorker), the Breithaupt Brothers have heard their work interpreted by many of the world’s great jazz, musical theater, and pop singers, including Kelli O’Hara, Norm Lewis, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, LaChanze, Jan Maxwell, James Naughton, Catherine Russell, Paul Shaffer, Janis Siegel, Brent Carver, and many more.