JEFF HARNAR DEBUTS NEW SHOW AT FEINSTEIN'S IN NOVEMBER
FEINSTEIN'S at the Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue, NYC - 212-339-4095
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http://www.feinsteinsattheregency.com/
) will continue its Fall 2006 season with the debut engagement of
award-winning singer and recording artist Jeff Harnar. His new show,
"A Collective Cy: Jeff Harnar Sings Cy Coleman," will celebrate the
Tony Award-winning Broadway composer on Sundays and Mondays for three
weeks, November 5th & 6th, 12th & 13th and 19th & 20th. In addition
to performing famous songs from his shows like Sweet Charity, City
of Angels and Seesaw, and standards such as "Witchcraft" and "The
Best Is Yet To Come," Jeff will debut two David Zippel / Cy Coleman
songs from the upcoming show Pamela's First Musical. Jeff will introduce
"So Little Time," a song cut from Coleman's Tony Award winning musical
Barnum, that will make its public performance debut at Feinstein's.
The show will be directed by Sara Louise Lazarus and will feature
"The Rhythm of Life Quartet" with musical director Alex Rybeck on
piano, Jay Leonhart on bass, Ray Marchica on drums and Dan Willis
on saxophone and flute.
Harnar, one of the most celebrated performers of the American
Popular Songbook, has appeared at Carnegie Hall on numerous occasions,
including the Cole Porter and Noel Coward Centennial galas, a solo
concert at Weill Recital Hall, and most recently as Michael Feinstein's
special guest at Zankel Hall. Jeff is familiar to television audiences
for his PBS special "The 1959 Broadway Songbook," and as the singing
narrator of A&E's "Gershwin on Ice," starring Dorothy Hamill.
Jeff is popular on the New York nightclub scene for his engagements
at Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room, the Firebird Caf, and many others.
Jeff also tours with Shauna Hicks in I Got Rhythm: Mickey & Judy's
Hollywood, most recently with the San Diego, Albany and Spokane
symphony orchestras. The show will be performed with a 60-piece
orchestra at New York's Town Hall in June 2007. Jeff has won six
Manhattan cabaret awards, including three MAC Awards and three Back
Stage Bistro Awards.
Jeff's most recent recording is the critically acclaimed Dancing
in the Dark on the PS Classics label, which also plans to record
the Cy Coleman show. Other solo recordings include The 1959 Broadway
Songbook, Because of You: Fifties Gold and Sammy Cahn All the Way.
A personal career highlight was opening for The McGuire Sisters
during their reunion tour.
All shows are at 8:30 pm and have a $40 cover and a two drink minimum.
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