The New York Times – Music:
Recordings of Broadway musicals are often better than the shows they preserve. Here’s a ranking of last year’s crop, with samples and bonus tracks.
Category: Harmony (Play)
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‘Harmony,’ Barry Manilow’s Passion Project, to Close on Broadway
The New York Times – Music:
The musical, which Manilow wrote with Bruce Sussman, is about a German singing ensemble that collided with the rising Nazi regime.
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‘Harmony’ Review: Barry Manilow Writes the (Broadway) Songs
The New York Times – Music:
The pop star of the 1970s and ’80s crosses over to musical theater with a dark story about pop stars of the 1920s and ’30s.
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Barry Manilow Finally Gets His Wish: a Broadway Show
The New York Times – Music:
“Harmony,” about a singing group undone by Nazism, has been a decades-in-the-making labor of love for the singer and his longtime collaborator Bruce Sussman.
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‘Harmony,’ a Manilow Musical Set Under Nazis, Is Broadway-Bound
The New York Times – Music:
The show about the Comedian Harmonists, a real-life sextet that ran afoul of the Nazi regime, was first staged in 1997.
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Review: In ‘Harmony,’ a Band’s Success Collides With History
The New York Times – Music:
Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s musical chronicles the story of the Comedian Harmonists, a sextet of Jews and gentiles in Weimar-era Germany.