Complete Broadway Casting Announced for HARMONY

Complete casting and creative team have been announced for the new musical Harmony by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, with direction and choreography by Warren Carlyle, playing Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre with previews starting Wednesday, October 18, ahead of a Monday, November 13 official opening night.

Joining the previously announced principal cast members Chip Zien, Sierra Boggess, Julie Benko, and the Comedian Harmonists Sean Bell, Danny Kornfeld, Zal Owen, Eric Peters, Blake Roman, and Steven Telsey are Allison Semmes as Josephine Baker and Andrew O’Shanick as Standartenfϋhrer. The complete cast includes Zak Edwards, Dan Hoy, Bruce Landry, RhonniRose Mantilla, Daniel Z. Miller, Benjamin H. Moore, Matthew Mucha, Constantine Pappas, Kayleen Seidl, Kyla Stone, Bronwyn Tarboton, Kate Wesler, Stuart Zagnit, and Lee Zarrett.

The creative team for Harmony includes Beowulf Boritt (scenic design), Linda Cho & Ricky Lurie (costume design), Jules Fisher + Peggy Eisenhauer (lighting design), Dan Moses Schreier (sound design), batwin + robin productions (media design), Tom Watson (wig & hair design), Jamibeth Margolis, CSA (casting), Sara Edwards (associate director/choreographer), John O’Neill (music director), Michael Aarons (music coordinator), Doug Walter (orchestrations) and Scott Taylor Rollison (production stage manager).

Harmony features an original new score by legendary Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Barry Manilow with lyrics and book by Drama Desk Award Winner, Bruce Sussman. Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Warren Carlyle, this timely and captivating rags-to-riches story lost to history comes to dazzling life with a sensational cast of Broadway favorites.

Based on an unbelievable true story, Harmony tells the tale of the most successful entertainers you've never heard of. . . until now. In the 1920s and 30s, The Comedian Harmonists sold millions of records, made dozens of films, and sold-out the biggest theaters around the world.  Their heavenly harmonies and musical comedy antics catapulted these six talented young men from singing in the subway tunnels of Berlin to international superstardom. What happened next is the story of Harmony. Harmony is based in part on The Comedian Harmonist Archive as curated by the late Dr. Peter Czada.

Theatrely named the musical's off-Broadway production one of Theatrely's Best of 2022, as an Unexpected Fav of Editor-in-Chief, Kobi Kassal.