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Sharon Barnett, who wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the music and book with Michael McFrederick and Adam Shorsten, respectively, told Playbill.com that she has a very personal connection to the old club, which stood at 267 Bowery, today the site of a German restaurant. “My father, Mark Barnett, was one of the emcees. The emcees would always wear top hats. My father was a singer and a dancer, told jokes, and often also did the scenery. My sister Marcelle and I grew up in this club. As children we also sometimes performed as a sister act, doing show tunes and such, and we often sang with my dad. We were children, and we loved it.”She put all those memories into her show, Sammy’s Bowery Follies, which she described as ”a new feel-good musical, set in the 1940s, about a young man who returns from the war seeking fortune, and his name in lights at the renowned nightclub Sammy’s Bowery Foll