Cabaret star Jeff Harnar revisits The 1959 Broadway Songbook at Birdland on Monday, October 6 at 7 PM, with music director, Alex Rybeck, bassist Tom Hubbard and drummer Dan Gross.The show is is directed by Sara Louise Lazarus.
The multiple BroadwayWorld Award-winning concert artist celebrates the remastered version of the show’s 1992 album of the same name, which will be released in its streaming debut from the PS Classics label on Friday, October 3.
The 1959 Broadway Songbook is a musical collage of the 21 musicals that were playing in New York in 1959. Gypsy, The Sound of Music, Fiorello!, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Flower Drum Song, Bells Are Ringing and Once Upon a Mattress are among the shows in this tribute to an era some have called the twilight of The Golden Age of Broadway. Songwriters represented include Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg, Leonard Bernstein, Comden & Green, and Lerner & Loewe. Over 40 songs are woven together including “Tonight,” “On the Street Where You Live,” “Till There Was You,” “The Party’s Over,” and “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” in a show that also pays homage to the very structure of a Broadway musical, including an “Overture,” “Entr’Acte” and an “Intermission,” the latter featuring a humorous nod to pop and Hollywood music and current events of 1959.
There is a $30-50 music charge and a $20 food and beverage minimum. For reservations, please call (212) 581-3080 or visit BirdlandJazz.com.
Birdland is located at 315 West 44th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues) in Manhattan.
