#Barry Manilow and lifetime friend reveal new project
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“Barry Manilow and lifetime friend reveal new project”
He’s in perfect “Harmony“
Wednesday, my phone rings. A voice says: “Hi. It’s Barry Manilow.” Barry Manilow on my phone when I’m sitting in my kitchen inhaling a tuna salad sandwich on raisin bread with mayo?
Second voice: “This is Bruce Sussman. I actually had dinner next to you recently in Fresco.”
So what? So have 90 other overeaters I don’t know. Who are you?
That voice says, “Barry and I, lifetime friends, we created the new musical ‘Harmony.’ Just opened at National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.” A bell rang. It’s a project I’ve written about and known about forever.
Barry: “This story we’ve worked on for 100 years is about six young talented guys in 1920s Germany. Great harmonies, old-fashioned Marx Brothers type humor. But beneath the vaudeville razzmatazz is a tragic story. Nobody remembers them. Back then nobody ever heard of anyone. Finally, Bruce and I are at the finish line with this musical about them. It’s ‘Harmony.’ ”
Bruce: “Years back, I saw an old dusty subtitled reel about them and was so excited seeing their story that — this is long before we had cellphones — I quick found a pay phone downtown on Lafayette Street, called Barry and said, ‘Listen, we have to do this.’ ”
Barry: “Here’s something you won’t believe. The lead character, then in his 90s, lived — if you can believe this — right near me in Palm Springs. Who knew? I walked my dog directly in front of his house never knowing. Here I am writing a show about this man who lived exactly three blocks from me and who knew it. I’m spending years creating songs about this aged character I didn’t even know and never met. When I finally met him and stepped into his house I burst into tears. He’s gone now. He was 98.”
Part Two of the story.
En-route to Wednesday’s opening Barry Manilow was diagnosed with COVID. Couldn’t go to the theater, backstage or the party.
He said: “After working on this show for years and years, this is the most cruel thing that could ever happen to me.”
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The bill’s yours
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