Tag: Barry Manilow

"Reprise of the Repressed" discusses two musicals, "Harmony" and "I Can Get It for You Wholesale," and their themes of Jewish trauma and guilt.
"Harmony" is a new Broadway musical with original music by Barry Manilow that tells the story of the Comedian Harmonists, a half-Jewish sextet that gained fame in pre-war Europe.
"Harmony" is a musical that tells the story of the Comedian Harmonists, a German singing group composed of three Jews and three gentiles who rose to fame in the 1930s as the Nazis came to power.
In this episode of Unorthodox, the hosts interview Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman about their off-Broadway musical Harmony, which tells the story of the Comedian Harmonists, a groundbreaking group of Jewish and gentile entertainers in 1920s Germany.