The Angels’ Share in Concert: A New Original Musical by the Breithaupt Brothers

With “songs worthy of the Great American Songbook” (CBC Radio) and a “gift for tuneful theatrical fare” (The New Yorker), two-time USA Songwriting Award-winning sibling songwriters and three-time Fred Ebb Award finalists Don and Jeff Breithaupt – the Breithaupt Brothers – return to Joe’s Pub for the first-ever concert performance of their new original musical The Angels’ Share (music by Don Breithaupt; lyrics by Jeff Breithaupt; story by Jeff Breithaupt and Shelley McPherson).
 
The Angels’ Share unfolds in a single bar over the course of a century. Characters from different eras pass through this timeless room – overseen by an enigmatic, unchanging barkeep – their lives quietly interconnected, linked to a WWII-era American GI and the fiancée he left behind. 
  
This one-night-only concert brings the Breithaupt Brothers’ newest work thrillingly to life, performed by a sparkling lineup of special guests, including Jake Bryan, Alvin Crawford, Oliver Finke, Aisha de Haas, Michael Halling, Joan Hess, Daelynn Carter Jorif, Jeremy Kushnier, Marissa Mulder, Don Noble, Sarah Thorn, Michael Winther, and the Brotherly Love Band.
 
In whiskey-making, “the angels’ share” refers to the small amount of spirit lost to evaporation during the aging process, but in this lyrical and deeply human new musical, the phrase becomes a metaphor for something more elusive: the small portion of time given to every human life, and what we choose to do with it before it slips away.

“The Breithaupt Brothers are writing with a truly timeless sound.” - Kelli O’Hara

“Jeff and Don Breithaupt have brought the high art and craft of songwriting into the 21st century.” - Catherine Russell

Photo courtesy the artists.