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Complete Broadway Cast Announced for Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman Musical Harmony

Previews begin in October.

Andrew O’Shanick and Allison Semmes will appear in the Broadway run of Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s Harmony, directed by Warren Carlyle, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
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Complete casting has been revealed for the Broadway transfer of Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s Harmony, which is slated to begin previews at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 18 ahead of an official opening night on November 13.

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. Warren Carlyle directs and choreographs.

Harmony is the story of a little-known German performance group, the Comedian Harmonists, and their rise to become one of Europe’s most successful bands, and their fall at the hands of the Nazis in the World War II era. The show played off-Broadway with National Yiddish Theatre/Folksbiene last year. Click here to read TheaterMania’s review of that production.

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), Sara Edwards (associate director/choreographer), John O’Neill (music director), Michael Aarons (music coordinator), Doug Walter(orchestrations), and Scott Taylor Rollison (production stage manager).

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