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Theater

An early boy band was world famous — until the Nazis took over

Long before The Backstreet Boys, a vocal sextet in Weimar Germany was silenced because three memebrs were Jewish. A new Broadway musical with a score by Barry Manilow tells their story.

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An early boy band was world famous — until the Nazis took over

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