Welcome to Curtain Call, our mostly queer take on the latest theater openings on Broadway and beyond.It’s been 25 years in the making, but Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s musical about the Weimer-era singing group the Comedian Harmonists finally premiers in New York City.
Presented by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Harmonytraces the triumphs, trials and tribulations of one of Europe’s most popular vocal groups as their rise to fame is disrupted by the onset of World War II.
A cast of young, enthusiastic talent brings the harrowing story to life, framed by narration and a multitude of characters portrayed by Broadway veteran Chip Zien.
Director-choreographer Warren Carlyle (also represented this season as choreographer of the starry revival of The Music Man featuring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster) digs deep to lift the show from biography to heart-tugging drama.A group of musical artists, passports revoked, struggling to get out of a war-torn country with wads of cash sewn into their coat linings.