Jeff Harnar draws from the words and music of Stephen Sondheim to create a self-portrait of the emotional landscape of an openly gay New Yorker. Together with Jazz piano virtuoso Jon Weber conducting his trio, they revisit an eclectic song list from “Follies,” “Into the Woods,” “A Little Night Music,” “Dick Tracy,” “Follies” and more, with a gender-bending fluidity, many of the songs having originally been introduced by women. The show is Directed by the legendary Broadway Baby Sondra Lee.
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Jeff Harnar is an award-winning cabaret, concert and recording artist. His Carnegie Hall appearances include both the Cole Porter and Noel Coward Centennial Galas. Jeff’s televised PBS concerts include “The 1959 Broadway Songbook” with Music Director Alex Rybeck and “American Songbook: Stephen Sondheim” co-starring KT Sullivan. Jeff tours with Broadway’s Shauna Hicks in their Symphony Pops Concert “I Got Rhythm: Mickey & Judy’s Hollywood.” Jeff has won multiple MAC, Bistro and BroadwayWorld Cabaret Awards and The Noel Coward Foundation Cabaret Award. Together with Music Director Alex Rybeck he has released four solo albums. This month marks 38 years since Jeff and Alex made their New York cabaret debut together. Their musical partnership has taken them across the country, aboard cruise ships across the high seas and to London, Paris, Oslo. Most recently they won the 2020 BroadwayWorld Cabaret Award for Best Show for the 30th Anniversary encore engagement of “Carried Away,” their tribute to Betty Comden & Adolph Green.
Together with Music Director Jazz virtuoso Jon Weber and Broadway legend Sondra Lee, Jeff has been performing “I Know Things Now” in New York, LA, Chicago, St. Louis and London. PS Classics has recorded the music along with a 20 piece orchestra for a June 17, 2022 release worldwide.
Jeff recently received The Chicago Cabaret Professionals National Honoree Award and The Mabel Mercer Award at The Annual Mabel Mercer Foundation Cabaret Convention at Lincoln Center.
BAND MEMBERS
Jon Weber – Piano/Conductor
Paul Shewchuk – Bass
George Mazzeo – Drums
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