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Amerike The Golden Land
Amerike – The Golden Land is a musical in Yiddish and English depicting the journey of Jewish immigrants to the United States. Revisiting the archives of Yiddish Theater, ''Amerike'' utilizes popular songs of the time period to tell the story of an immigrant people as they confront the challenges of living in early 20th-century New York City. With book, lyrics, and song by Moishe Rosenfeld and Zalmen Mlotek, the musical is proof that Yiddish culture and Yiddish Theatre still thrive, despite that Yiddish is on the world list of endangered languages. Synopsis ''Amerike – The Golden Land'' tells the journey of America's Jewish ancestors who emigrated from their towns and cities in Europe and Russia (especially the Pale of Settlement) to start a new life in America. The characters in this story start off with a tremendous amount of hope in leaving their homes and starting new lives in NYC. However, their notions of America as a free land are shattered at Ellis Island when they w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zalmen Mlotek
Zalmen Mlotek ( yi, זלמן נתן מלאָטעק; born June 15, 1951 in the Bronx, New York) is an American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF), the longest continuous running Yiddish theatre in the world. He is an internationally recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music and a leading figure in the Jewish theatre and concert worlds. As the Artistic Director of the NYTF for the past twenty years, Mlotek helped revive Yiddish classics, instituted bi-lingual simultaneous English and Russian supertitles at all performances and brought leading creative artists of television, theatre and film, such as Itzhak Perlman, Mandy Patinkin, Sheldon Harnick, Theo Bikel, Ron Rifkin, and Joel Grey, to the Yiddish stage. His vision has propelled classics including NYTF productions of the world premiere of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Yentl in Yiddish (1998), Di Yam Gazlonim (The Yiddish Pira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Music Theater Festival
The Prince Theater is a non-profit theatrical producing organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and specializing in music theatre, including opera, music drama, musical comedy and experimental forms. Founded in 1984 as the American Music Theater Festival by Marjorie Samoff, Eric Salzman and Ron Kaiserman, for the first 15 years AMTF performed in various venues throughout Philadelphia. In March 1999, AMTF moved into the renovated Midtown Theater and changed its name in honor of Broadway producer and director Harold Prince,. AMTF/Prince Theater has produced 92 world premieres and has sent 81 productions to theaters in New York and worldwide. Works The Prince Theater productions (primarily as the American Music Theater Festival) have included the world premieres of * Julie Taymor, Elliot Goldenthal and Sidney Goldfarb's ''The Transposed Heads'' * Anthony Davis' ''X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X'' * Duke Ellington's ''Queenie Pie'' * Emily Mann, Ntozake Shange, and Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Lynne Mason
Stephanie Lynne Mason is a New York City-based theater actress. She has performed on Broadway as well as in other theatrical productions. Stephanie Lynne made her Broadway debut as swing in the 2015 revival of Fiddler on the Roof which opened November 12, 2015 and closed December 31, 2016 for a total of 431 performances. She also performed in Axis Theater Company's ''Evening 1910'' which opened May 8, 2016 and performed for 3 weeks closing May 28, 2016 . She played Dyanne in the national tour of Million Dollar Quartet, a jukebox musical celebrating early rock and roll stars, in September 2016. Stephanie Lynne has also performed with the National Yiddish Theater – Folksbiene's in their Off-Broadway run of Amerike the Golden Land which opened July 4, 2017 and performed for 6 weeks including a 2 weeks extension, closing August 20, 2017. She also performed in the Folksbiene's sold-out run of The Sorceress in December 2017, a performance as part of the Folksbiene's restoration pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird is a Germany-based klezmer band founded by Jewish-American singer-songwriter and actor Daniel Kahn, originally from Detroit, Michigan. The band was formed in 2005 and is based in Berlin. They have released five albums through German world music label . The name of the band comes from the title of the novel ''The Painted Bird'' by Jerzy Kosiński. History Daniel Kahn was born on September 11, 1978, in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the University of Michigan, where he studied Theater, Playwriting, Poetry and Politics. After graduating, Daniel moved to New Orleans where he was first introduced to modern Jewish music. He then went on to live and perform in Detroit, New York and Michigan. Musical style Daniel Kahn coined the word "", meaning "alienation klezmer music", to describe their music, in reference to Bertolt Brecht's theory of . The group describes their music as "a mixture of Klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and folk punk" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Seven Allen
Glenn Seven Allen is an American actor and operatic tenor. He performs on Broadway, off-Broadway, and at notable opera venues throughout the United States.Profile Yale School of Drama In addition to his performing career, Allen currently serves on the Acting Faculty at the . Career Born in , Georgia, Allen made his Broadway debut in the winning musical ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Jewish Heritage
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but intended to serve the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Folksbiene
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, commonly known as NYTF, is a professional theater company in New York City which produces both Yiddish plays and plays translated into Yiddish, in a theater equipped with simultaneous superscript translation into English. The company's leadership consists of executive director Dominick Balletta and artistic director Zalmen Mlotek. The board is co-chaired by Sandra Cahn and Carol Levin. History Folksbiene ( yi, פֿאָלקסבינע, , ''People's Stage'') was founded in 1915, under the auspices of the fraternal and Yiddish cultural organization Workmen's Circle,History ". National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. nytf.org. Retrieved 23 November 2016. on New York City’s , as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as ''Superstorm Sandy'') was an extremely destructive and strong Atlantic hurricane, as well as the largest Atlantic hurricane on record as measured by diameter, with tropical-storm-force winds spanning . The storm inflicted nearly $70 billion (2012 USD) in damage and killed 233 people across eight countries from the Caribbean to Canada. The eighteenth Tropical cyclone naming, named storm, tenth Atlantic hurricane, hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Sandy was a List of Category 3 Atlantic hurricanes, Category 3 storm at its peak intensity when it made landfall in Cuba, though most of the damage it caused was after it became a Category 1-equivalent extratropical cyclone off the coast of the Northeastern United States. Sandy developed from a tropical wave in the western Caribbean Sea on October 22, quickly strengthened, and was upgraded to Tropical Storm Sandy six hours later. Sandy moved s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Yiddish Theater
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, commonly known as NYTF, is a professional theater company in New York City which produces both Yiddish plays and plays translated into Yiddish, in a theater equipped with simultaneous superscript translation into English. The company's leadership consists of executive director Dominick Balletta and artistic director Zalmen Mlotek. The board is co-chaired by Sandra Cahn and Carol Levin. History Folksbiene ( yi, פֿאָלקסבינע, , ''People's Stage'') was founded in 1915, under the auspices of the fraternal and Yiddish cultural organization Workmen's Circle,History ". National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. nytf.org. Retrieved 23 November 2016. on New York City’s , as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Segal Centre For Performing Arts
The Segal Centre for Performing Arts, formerly the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, is a theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 5170 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. The building houses the Segal Theatre, the Academy of Performing Arts, CinemaSpace, Studio, and the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre. History The Saidye Bronfman Centre In 1967, the children of Saidye Bronfman gave the theatre to the local community in recognition of their mother's long association with and patronage of the arts. The building that houses the theatre was designed in 1967 by Montreal architect Phyllis Lambert, a daughter of Saidye Bronfman. The Segal Centre for Performing Arts Following the winding-down of the Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Foundation, in 2007 the Saidye Bronfman Centre was renamed the Segal Centre for Performing Arts in acknowledgement of the financial support of Leanor and Alvin Segal in partnership with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre
The Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre, a branch of the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, was founded in Montreal in 1958 by Dora Wasserman (June 1919– December 2003), a Ukrainian actress, playwright, and theatre director. The first play was ''The Innkeeper''. Wasserman directed over 70 plays over four decades. One review said that "The most successful of these was A Bintel Brief, based on immigrants' letters to the advice column of the Jewish Daily Forward",Jewish Women's Archive referring to a Yiddish newspaper. The Dora Wasserman is one of the few remaining Yiddish theaters in the world. See also * Federation CJA *Jews in Montreal Montreal's Jewish community is one of the oldest and most populous in the country, formerly first but now second to Toronto and numbering about 100,000 according to the 2001 census. The community is quite diverse, and is composed of many different ... References External links Theatre Web siteJewish Theatre.com article on the Dora Was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Adler
Bruce Adler (November 27, 1944 – July 25, 2008) was an American Broadway actor. After debuting on the Broadway stage in the 1979 revival of ''Oklahoma!'', he went on to a career that saw him nominated for Tony Awards as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for ''Those Were the Days'' (1991) and '' Crazy For You'' (1992). His film work was limited to voice work in animated films, notably providing the singing voice for the peddler of the 1992 Disney film ''Aladdin'' and the 1996 sequel ''Aladdin and the King of Thieves''. Early life Born in New York City, Adler's parents, Henrietta Jacobson and Julius Adler, and his two maternal uncles, Irving and Hymie Jacobson were well-established popular stars of the Yiddish theatre, at the time in its heyday on New York's Lower East Side. Adler made his stage debut at an early age, appearing with his parents. The three Adlers played the London Palladium with Sophie Tucker in the 1950s. He continued to appear in Yiddish theatre throughout hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
