Watch the video beneath of the solid of the Broadway musical Concord celebrating the primary night time of Hanukkah with a particular post-matinee menorah lighting outdoors the Barrymore Theater.  Zal Owen, who performs Harry Frommermann, one of many Comic Harmonists, welcomed the group and lit the primary candle and sang the primary two blessings for the vacation.  Julie Benko, who performs Ruth, concluded with the third blessing, the “Shehecheyanu”.  Finishing the ceremony, the solid carried out the basic Hanukkah music “Maoz Tzur”.

Hanukkah is a Jewish vacation that’s celebrated for eight days with a nightly lighting of candles on a menorah (a multi-branched candelabrum), to commemorate a miracle. After the Maccabean Jews regained management of Jerusalem from the colonizing Seleucids 2,300 years in the past, they rededicated the Temple, lighting the one oil they may discover, a small jar, that was alleged to final solely a single day. However it lasted eight.