Jeff Harnar: Blame It On My Youth – Don't Tell Mama

JEFF HARNAR "BLAME IT ON MY YOUTH" ENCORE PRESENTATION OUR 1980'S DON'T TELL MAMA SONGBOOK MULTI-AWARD WINNING VOCALIST MUSICAL DIRECTOR: ALEX RYBECK ARRANGEMENTS: BRIAN LASSER & ALEX RYBECK $25.00 COVER CHARGE AND A $20.00 MINIMUM (MUST INCLUDE 2 DRINKS) PER PERSON $20.00 COVER CHARGE AND A $20.00 MINIMUM (MUST INCLUDE 2 DRINKS) PER PERSON MAC FOOD MENU AVAILABLE CASH ONLY SEATING FROM 6:15PM APPROXIMATE RUNNING TIME: 70 MINUTES MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING SINGER JEFF HARNAR RETURNS TO DON'T TELL MAMA WITH MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL DIRECTOR ALEX RYBECK TO REVISIT SONGS FROM THE SHOWS THEY PRESENTED THERE IN THE 1980'S, WHEN THEY WERE FORGING THEIR 42 -YEAR-LONG MUSICAL PARTNERSHIP. TOGETHER, THEY HAVE GONE ON TO APPEAR IN NEARLY EVERY MAJOR VENUE NATIONWIDE, IN LONDON, OSLO AND PARIS, HAD THEIR SHOWS FILMED FOR PBS, AND RECORDED FIVE ALBUMS FOR ORIGINAL CAST RECORDS, VARESSE SARABANDE AND PS CLASSICS. THE SHOW, "BLAME IT ON MY YOUTH", TAKES ITS NAME FROM THE OSCAR LEVANT SONG THEY FIRST PERFORMED IN THE 1980'S. THEY WILL SHINE A SPECIAL SPOTLIGHT ON LYRICS HARNAR FIRST SANG IN HIS 20'S, AND HOW HIS PERSPECTIVE ON THEM HAS EVOLVED OVER TIME. THE SONGWRITERS FEATURED INCLUDE IRVING BERLIN, KANDER & EBB, RICHARD RODGERS, JERRY HERMAN, STEPHEN SONDHEIM, CHARLES AZNAVOUR, PAUL SIMON, CAROLE KING AND BILLY JOEL.THE MUSICAL ARRANGEMENTS ARE BY RYBECK AND BRIAN LASSER, ONE OF THEIR PIVOTAL EARLY COLLABORATIONS. THE PROMOTIONAL PHOTOGRAPH WAS TAKEN BY MICHAEL IAN, THE SAME MICHAEL IAN WHO PHOTOGRAPHED THEIR DON'T TELL MAMA POSTER THAT PRESENTLY HANGS ON THE WALLS OF THE LEGENDARY VENUE. SOMETIMES, WITH THE GIFTS OF TIME, FRIENDSHIP AND MUSIC, YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN! "ARTISTIC AUDACITY SHINES. CONNECTIVE THREAD FROM THEN TO NOW IS DEFTLY PRESENTED. HARNAR INHABITS LYRICS....HARNAR AND RYBECK SOAR. THE SHOW IS FILLED WITH STORIES YOU SHOULD BE THERE TO HEAR. TREAT YOURSELF. THIS IS EXCELLENCE." ALIX COHEN THEATER LIFE JEFF HARNAR EMBODIES CABARET, WHAT IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING, WHAT IT WAS IN ITS NEW YORK CITY HEYDAY OF THE EIGHTIES, AND WHAT IT SHOULD ALWAYS BE...HARNAR STANDS AS A BEACON OF PROFESSIONALISM AND PERFECTION, IT IS A PLEASURE, A JOY, A PRIVILEGE TO SEE HIM IN ACTION." STEPHEN MOSHER BROADWAY WORLD "SINCE "BLAME IT ON MY YOUTH" IS A MEMORY PIECE, THERE WERE TALES TO BE TOLD, A HISTORY TO RECOUNT. IT WAS SPELLBINDING . HARNAR IS A MASTER STORYTELLER IN WORD AND SONG... IS IT ANY WONDER NO ONE WANTED TO LEAVE THE ROOM? A STANDING OVATION HAD TO DO." MARILYN LESTER NITELIFE EXCHANGE "AN UNFORGETTABLE EVENING ...THERE IS ALWAYS A POETIC SENSITIVITY TO HARNAR'S WORK, PERHAPS MOST KEENLY ACHIEVED IN THIS PROGRAM." JACQUELINE PARKER CABARET SCENES "HARNAR'S STORIES ARE NO LESS THAN FASCINATING TO HEAR...HARNAR'S VOCAL STRENGTHS AD WIDE RANGE ARE BEYOND IMPRESSIVE." JED RYAN LAVENDER AFTER DARK "HARNAR AND RYBECK PUT ON A DELIGHTFUL EVENING OF SONGS, STORIES AND LAUGHS." MELISSA GREIGEL THEATER PIZZAZZ