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Reprise of the Repressed

Adam Kirsch in Jewish Review of Books · 23 Jan 2024

"Reprise of the Repressed" discusses two musicals, "Harmony" and "I Can Get It for You Wholesale," and their themes of Jewish trauma and guilt.

0 Music Antisemitism

Broadway’s Next Great Jewish Musical

David Benkof in Future of Jewish · 27 Dec 2023

"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.

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In Germany, they were superstars — and then the Nazis came to power

ALanger in Forward · 16 Nov 2023

"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.

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Rootless Cosmopolitans: Ep. 314

Unorthodox · 21 Apr 2022

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.

0 Culture History

Rootless Cosmopolitans: Ep. 314

Unorthodox · 21 Apr 2022

This episode of Unorthodox features interviews with Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman about their musical Harmony, as well as Professor Andy Markovits discussing his memoir on embracing rootlessness.