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  1. Harmony is a stage musical with music by Barry Manilow and book and lyrics by Bruce Sussman. The musical tells the true story of the Comedian Harmonists , an ensemble of six young men in 1920s Germany who took the world by storm with their blend of sophisticated close harmonies and uproarious stage antics, until their inclusion of Jewish singers put them on a collision course with history.

  2. Nov 25, 2023 · Barry Manilow's Broadway musical 'Harmony' tells the story of an early boy band Long before The Backstreet Boys, a vocal sextet in Weimar Germany was silenced because three memebrs were Jewish. A ...

  3. Dec 15, 2023 · Discover the true stories of the musical’s main characters, including fun facts from the Harmony cast about their real-life counterparts. Background on the Weimar Republic and German music German cabarets and revues during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) often used musical satire as a way of commenting on politics.

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  4. Feb 4, 2024 · That’s the extraordinary true story of HARMONY. Featuring an original score by Tony®, Grammy® and Emmy® Award winner Barry Manilow with lyrics and book by long-time collaborator and Drama Desk Award winner Bruce Sussman, HARMONY has been hailed by The New York Times as a Critic’s Pick and “impossible to forget.”

  5. Nov 6, 2023 · Harmony is based on the true story of the Comedian Harmonists, a German sextet that rose to fame in the late 1920s and early ’30s with their musical and comedic stylings, but because three of ...

  6. Apr 28, 2023 · A production of “Harmony” ran in New York last year at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. ... tells the true story of a sextet that ran afoul of the Nazi ...

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  8. Feb 21, 2024 · The True Story Behind Broadway’s ‘Harmony’”: According to Comedian Harmonists enthusiast and amateur historian Jan Grübler, “The idea [for the group] came to Harry Frommerman, the founder of the group, in the late 1920s because he was influenced by shellac records from the American group The Revelers.”. Grübler, who wrote ...