B'way Update: Harmony and King Lear

Harmony will make the trip from
Off-Broadway to on this fall.
Credit: Julieta Cervantes

Harmony, the musical based on the real-life careers of a German singing group destroyed by the Nazis, will make the trip from Off-Broadway to on with preview performances commencing Oct. 18 at the Barrymore Theater, prior to a Nov. 13 opening. The musical with music by the legendary Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner Barry Manilow and book and lyrics by Drama Desk winner Bruce Sussman, had a sold-out engagement at the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene from March to May of 2022. Directed and choreographed by Tony winner Warren Carlyle, Harmony follows the story of the Comedian Harmonists, a popular vocal sextette from the 1920s into the 1930s whose meteoric rise to fame was stymied by the anti-Semitic policies of Adolph Hitler. 

For this Off-Broadway run, Harmony was nominated for a Drama Desk for Outstanding Musical and won for Outstanding Book of a Musical. It also received eight Outer Critics Circle nominations and two Lortel nominations.