Harmony To Broadway?

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 9/19/13 at 9:34am

Barry Manilow's show "Harmony" opened in Atlanta and received pretty good reviews. I believe the show will also go to California but wondering if it will make it to Broadway if it continues to get good reviews.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 9/19/13 at 9:39am

Yes, it'll be at the Ahmanson in LA next spring: http://www.centertheatregroup.org/tickets/2014/Harmony/

Let's hope for Broadway!

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 9/19/13 at 10:05am

Hope it does make it because a guy who went to HS with my daughters is in the ensemble.

[tazber]

Posted: 9/19/13 at 12:16pm

I love the part of the score I've heard. Would love to see it transfer.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 9/19/13 at 12:18pm

I'd expect it to arrive in the Fall of 2014.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/19/13 at 12:28pm

Manilow will be put into the same category as Wildhorn - a pop composer

The results will be the same - horrible reviews

[timote316]

Posted: 9/19/13 at 10:05pm

Manilow will be put into the same category as Wildhorn - a pop composer

The results will be the same - horrible reviews

Right, I forgot that pop composers are uniformly bad and get unanimous pans. Cyndi Lauper's debut score was a turd that sank her show.

[Kad]

Posted: 9/19/13 at 10:13pm

Remember how Elton John was dismissed as a pop composer, and Billy Elliot closed in a week?

[CapnHook]

Posted: 9/19/13 at 10:18pm

Remember how Elton John was dismissed as a pop composer, and AIDA closed in a week?

[broadwaybabytn]

Posted: 9/19/13 at 11:52pm

Remember how Elton John was dismissed as a pop composer, and THE LION KING closed in a week?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/20/13 at 1:06am

There is a big difference between Manilow and Elton John

I still say the reviews will not be good. We shall see

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 9/20/13 at 1:06am

Remember how Elton John was dismissed as a pop composer, and LESTAT...oh never mind...

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 9/20/13 at 2:19am

Barry Manilow is a registered trademark of Hastings, Clayton & Tucker, Inc. All rights reserved. But is Elton John?

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 9/20/13 at 11:50am

I guess the show Sting is writing the music for doesn't have a chance either - lol

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 9/20/13 at 11:51am

Enjolras77 -Can't win them all - lol

Updated On: 9/20/13 at 11:51 AM

[Famebroadway2]

Posted: 9/20/13 at 1:22pm

Years ago, wasn't Harmony in rehearsals for a Broadway bow and then canceled in rehearsals right as the cast was about to leave for the out of town tryout? I distinctly remember its out of town tryout was supposed to be at the Forrest in Philadelphia and they had already loaded the set in when the whole thing tanked. Does anyone else remember this?

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 9/21/13 at 9:10am

^ Riedel refers to it in his column. The producer misled them as to the status of having the money raised, and finally tearfully confessed that things were not where they should be financially. Manilow was livid, and he and Sussman were in arbitration hearings for years getting the rights back from this guy. The reason it's moving forward is they got them back.

[tazber]

Posted: 9/21/13 at 10:21am

I also remember they even had the marquee for it up at the theater.

And I seem to recall that there was another show about the Comedian Harmonists improbably landing on Broadway in the same season as Harmony was slated to.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 9/21/13 at 10:58am

Band in Berlin: http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/6711/Band-in-Berlin

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 9/21/13 at 2:15pm

There's another musical about them as well that was big in Germany -- Veronika, der Lenz ist da - Die Comedian Harmonists, which opened at the Komödie in Berlin in December 1997 following the international success of the then-recent film about them. When the show closed, the original six actors formed a tribute group that recreated the repertoire called the Berlin Comedian Harmonists.

[shomeika]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 1:37pm

I saw the show here in Atlanta a few days after it opened; and went back a few days ago to see it again. It's really quite good.

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 10/8/13 at 1:59pm

shomeika - awesome, glad you liked it. The guy who is in the ensemble from my daughter's HS is named Charles Osborne.