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☆ ‘Harmony’ Review: Barry Manilow Writes the (Broadway) Songs
  + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Jesse Green | More About Jesse Green | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
How strange and, in the end, how ironic that a German singing group, founded in the chaotic last years of the Weimar Republic and forcibly disbanded less than 10 years later, should call itself the Comedian Harmonists. Yet on the evidence of the Barry Manilow musical “Harmony” — for which, yes, he wrote the songs (along with his longtime lyricist, Bruce Sussman) — the internationally famous all-male group had the “harmonist” part of their name just right. Neither the guys nor the grim and eventually bludgeoning show have a gift for levity. Though its title makes it sound as if “Harmony” would be calm and golden, its story isn’t an uplifting one. Soon the brotherhood, symbolized in sound by their questing choral closeness, goes sour — a story that, to be effective, needs vivid contrast so we know what’s been lost.
Persons: Harmonists, Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, —, Manilow, what’s Organizations: Socialism Locations: Weimar Republic
☆ Barry Manilow Finally Gets His Wish: a Broadway Show
  + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Jesse Mckinley | More About Jesse Mckinley | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
One possible turning point in the show’s luck, Carlyle said, was the addition of a narrator character — an older rabbi played by Chip Zien — who walks the audience through the various eras of the show. “For me as director, it unlocks the whole show because previously it was kind of a six-headed dragon. In addition to his younger self the show would also include his older self, a rabbi, serving as a narrator. “And suddenly for me, it was like, now the story has a point of view,” Carlyle said. Writing in The New York Times, Elisabeth Vincentelli praised the songs “crafted in a defiantly classic mold,” which steer the show back to “solid emotional ground.”
Persons: Sussman, Manilow, Warren Carlyle, Tonys, Kate ”, Carlyle, Chip Zien —, “, ” Carlyle, —, Elisabeth Vincentelli Organizations: Museum of Jewish, The New York Times Locations: British
☆ ‘Harmony,’ a Manilow Musical Set Under Nazis, Is Broadway-Bound
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
“Harmony,” a musical about a German singing group upended by the rise of Nazism, will finally open on Broadway this fall with songs by Barry Manilow and his longtime collaborator, Bruce Sussman. The show, which Manilow and Sussman have been developing for more than 25 years, tells the true story of a sextet that ran afoul of the Nazi regime because the group featured both Jewish and non-Jewish members. The ensemble was called the Comedian Harmonists. “They represent everything I love — they’re a combination of The Manhattan Transfer and the Marx Brothers, with complicated harmonies — and funny as hell,” said Manilow, who wrote the show’s music. “When we dug into it, it just killed me: Why don’t we know about them?”Sussman, who wrote the book and lyrics, said the show was “about the quest for harmony in what turned out to be the most discordant chapter in human history.”
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