Manilow and Sussman's Harmony Coming To Broadway — Page 3

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/theater/harmony-broadway-manilow-musical.html?smid=url-share

“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.

PipingHotPiccolo said: "Setting aside this unhinged libel of Emergarde for stating an obvious truth with zero ill will, when someone like Sutton Ross says "none of thats true" the world we live in compels me to point out that it IS true: since Porgy and Bess in 2011, Norm Lewis (who i ADORE) was in Phantom, Once on this Island and Chicken and Biscuits-- which one of those were financial successes during--let alone DUE TO--his run?

unreal."

I won't try to psychoanalyze my constant attacker –– I don't care enough, and there's not enough time in the day to unpack all that –– but if we're mounting a case to the courts, I feel the need to state that I think Michael R. Jackson is the most exciting figure writing for musical theatre these days (something that they also, baselessly and bizarrely, brought into question). Not that any of this matters.

But anyway. Back to the thread at hand. HARMONY has now been announced.

Updated On: 4/28/23 at 10:10 AM

Very good and smart of them to put tix onsale with a discount code. I kind of assumed that was something that would never happen again.

Code works for me. Also, there's a note on there that the discount is not valid from November 13 through December 30, except for Thursday matinees.

Updated On: 4/28/23 at 11:19 AM

I love it when Broadway gets national press. It doesn't get any bigger than announcing it on The Today Show.

Who is doing the publicity for Manilow/Sussman's show?



https://www.today.com/video/barry-manilow-bruce-sussman-announce-harmony-on-broadway-171631685545?search=barry%20manilow

Telecharge Offers, not Telecharge. It's a different site:

https://www.telechargeoffers.com/Broadway/Harmony-A-New-Musical/Ticket

I also appreciate the code! Got my ticket for November 11th (show will be frozen by then)- Telecharge was extremely helpful in securing the ticket with the code. Combined with an AmEx offer I had for Telecharge, I'm happy with what I paid.

Also worth noting that the fellas from Harmony are being prominently featured in the NY Pops gala performance honoring Manilow at Carnegie Hall next week. They’re certainly leveraging Manilow all they can to drum up buzz.

I missed this earlier today, but interesting that post-Thanksgiving they go to a somewhat unusual schedule: 2 weekday matinees a week. They must REALLY be hoping for lots of senior & student groups. We've seen some other shows try this with indifferent results over the years: Phantom famously had a Thurs mat, a coalition of shows all tried jointly advertising Thurs mats a few summers ago and it did nothing, and Ken D had a crazy schedule for OOTI that had Wed or Thurs as their dark day. We'll see how it goes!

Tue – 7pm
Wed – 2pm
Thur – 2 & 8pm
Fri – 8pm
Sat – 2 & 8pm
Sun – 3pm

Updated On: 4/28/23 at 07:32 PM

Kad said: "Also worth noting that the fellas from Harmony are being prominently featured in the NY Pops gala performance honoring Manilow at Carnegie Hall next week. They’re certainly leveraging Manilow all they can to drum up buzz."

Just bought a ticket from someone who had an extra. Looking forward to this.

Not to knock the hard work of PR teams but I strongly suspect the name Barry Manilow has a lot more to do with getting a coveted morning news spot for their announcement.

Initial casting announced:

Playing the six Comedian Harmonists will be Sean Bell, Danny Kornfeld, Zal Owen, Eric Peters, Blake Roman and Steven Telsey. Five of the gentlemen will proudly be making their Broadway debuts.

Check out the picture of the cast next to the picture of the real Comedian Harmonists.

This is amazing........



https://www.broadwaynews.com/initial-casting-announced-for-barry-manilow-and-bruce-sussmans-harmony-on-broadway/