‘Harmony’ Comes to Broadway, Nearly 30 Years in the Making

“We never gave up,” Barry Manilow said of the show he cocreated with Bruce Sussman, because “we knew what we had.”

“It’s coming at us,” he shared, sitting in a midtown restaurant during an escape from the heat. “We’ve gone through so many years of believing in this show, and this is a , ‘hang in there long enough, this is what you get.’” Sussman, his collaborator of 50 years, couldn’t contain his emotions during that first day in the rehearsal room. When he said, “Welcome to Harmony on Broadway,” he forced the last word out with a crack in his voice.

“When I’m directing something, I’ve got to know whose point of view I’m telling the story from. I can’t just tell a story in a wide shot and hope that the audience will know who to follow.” The change cracked things open in an entirely new way. “We read through both versions, and it was very, very clear that was doing something really fantastic for us,” the Tony winner added. “And it just revealed itself.

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