Award-winning concert, cabaret and recording artist, Jeff Harnar, salutes Emmy-, Grammy- and Tony-winning songwriter, Cy Coleman in A Collective Cy, at Birdland, on Monday, January 31 at 7:00 PM. Music director Alex Rybeck conducts The Rhythm of Life Quartet, which features Jay Leonhart on bass, Ray Marchica on drums and Marc Phaneuf on saxophone. The show is directed by Sara Louise Lazarus.
A Collective Cy originally was honored with the 2007 Bistro Award for “Major Engagement,” and includes familiar standards like “The Best is Yet To Come,” “Witchcraft,” “Hey Look Me Over” and “When in Rome,” as well as surprises from Coleman’s six-decade career, which included Broadway hits Sweet Charity, City of Angels and Wildcat, among others.
Harnar most recently Jeff debuted his own Sondheim show I Know Things Now at Feinstein’s/54 Below, Feinstein’s at Vitello’s and The Pheasantry in London with music director Jon Weber and directed by Sondra Lee. He has toured with Broadway’s Shauna Hicks in their Symphony Pops Concert I Got Rhythm: Mickey & Judy’s Hollywood, while his Carnegie Hall appearances include both the Cole Porter and Noël Coward Centennial Galas, and his televised PBS concerts include The 1959 Broadway Songbook with music director Alex Rybeck and American Songbook: Stephen Sondheim co-starring KT Sullivan. Harnar has won multiple MAC, Bistro and BroadwayWorld Cabaret Awards and The Noël Coward Foundation Cabaret Award, in addition to the 2020 BroadwayWorld Cabaret Award for Best Show for the 30th Anniversary encore engagement of Carried Away, a tribute to Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
There is a $40 music charge and a $20 food and beverage minimum. For reservations, please call 212-581-3080 or visit www.BirdlandJazz.com
Birdland Jazz Club is located at 315 West 44th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues) in Manhattan.
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