Jeff Harnar's CONFESSIONS OF A NEW YORKER Comes to 54 Below in April

54 Below will present the return of MAC and Bistro Award-winning concert artist Jeff Harnar – celebrating Manhattan in music with Confessions of a New Yorker – on Tuesday April 1st at 7pm. “Confessions of a New Yorker” is a musical Valentine to New York City featuring the songs of of Kander & Ebb, Leonard Bernstein, Rodgers & Hart, Comden & Green and more. 

The award-winning Music Director Alex Rybeck leads the trio featuring Ritt Henn of bass and Dan Gross on drums in a set that includes  “Manhattan,” “Lonely Town,” “East Side of Heaven” and many surprises.  Included will be a special spotlight on some more contemporary New York-based songwriters including Annie Dinerman, Jim Walton, Francesca Blumenthal, Portia-Nelson/">Portia Nelson, Rick Crom and Alex Rybeck.  Harnar and Rybeck are celebrating forty-one years of musical collaboration, in a partnership that has taken their shows across the country, to London, Norway, Paris and on the High Seas.

“Confessions is memorably entertaining…NOTHING less than splendid ensues,” wrote Cabaret Scenes of the show.  “What enlightening, amusing, surprising and even inspiring Confessions they were from one of the true princes of the cabaret universe, Jeff Harnar,” added The Times Square Chronicles.  Will Friedwald of The New York Sun said, “As a lifelong New Yorker, I loved the show – loved it!”  And songwriter Michael Colby quipped, “A trip to the moon on Gotham-er wings.”

Jeff Harnar “Confessions of a New Yorker”  plays 54 Below (254 West 54th Street) Tuesday April 1st at 7pm. Cover charges are $57 (includes $7 in fees) - $68 (includes $8 in fees.) Premiums are $106.50 (includes $11.50 in fees). There is a $25 food and beverage minimum. Tickets and information are available at www.54Below.org. Tickets on the day of performance after 4:00pm are only available by calling (646) 476-3551.

Jeff Harnar was named a Top Cabaret Artist of 2024 by The Times Square Chronicles. His recent albums include:  JeffHarnar Sings Sammy Cahn: The Second Time Around (2024), featuring duets with Clint Holmes, Grammy winner Nicole Zuraitis, and the triplets from Kenya, Moipei; the MAC Award winning Cy Coleman tribute A Collective Cy (2023), orchestrated and conducted by Alex Rybeck, and the MAC Award winning I Know Things Now: My Life in Sondheim's Words (2022), orchestrated and conducted by Jon Weber (all on PS Classics). Jeff's Carnegie Hall appearances include both the Cole Porter and Noel Coward Centennial Galas. Harnar's PBS concerts include “The 1959 Broadway Songbook” with Alex Rybeck and “American Songbook: Sondheim” with KT Sullivan. Awards include multiple MAC, Bistro and Broadway World Awards, the 2022 Chicago Cabaret Professionals National Honoree Award and The Noel Coward Foundation Cabaret Award. Jeff is also a Broadway World, MAC and Bistro Award winning Director (Tovah Feldshuh, Rita Gardner and more).