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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, November 1, 1980 43

The State of theYiddish Theater

By YITZHAK RBI

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Mary is rehearsing in

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New York for a new Yiddish
musical, "Wish Me Mazel
Tov," which opens this
month in Manhattan's
Town Hall. It will be her
third appearance on
Broadway with actor David
Carey. Mary and David
previously appeared in two
highly successful musicals,
"The Girl From Tel Aviv"
and "Rebecca, the Rabbi's
Daughter."
Mary believes that there
is a place for a Yiddish thea-
ter wherever there is a
Jewish community. Despite
the difficulties facing the
Yiddish theater in Israel,
Mary said that the award-
ing of the Nobel Prize for
literature to Yiddish writer
Isaac Bashevis Singer two
years ago boosted the
prestige of the Yiddish the-
ater. "People realized that
Yiddish is not a dying lan-
guage," she said.
According to Mary,
who came to Israel from
Romania in 1965, there
are about 35 Yiddish ac-
tors in Israel serving a
Yiddish-speaking audi-
ence of 50,000-70,000.
Each year about five
Yiddish shows are pro-
duced and the average
run of each show is two
months. By comparison,
Mary noted, a Yiddish
show in New York sur-
vives about four months.
Later on the show tours
the country for an addi-
tional six to seven
months.
Who comprises the audi-
ence of the Yiddish theater
in America nowadays?
"Well," Mary said, "during
the week they are mostly
senior citizens, but on
weekends one can see many
youngsters in the audience
who come to see a Yiddish
play to search for their
roots. Believe it or not, but
on Wednesdays, when dis-
count tickets are available
for students and others, one
can even see blacks or
Puerto Ricans in the audi-
ence."
For those audiences and
others who do not know
Yiddish, the show provides
an English narration and a
written synopsis of the plot.
Two biographies depict-
ing the lives of two leaders
of Socialist Zionism were
just published in Israel. One

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authors not only suc-
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two leaders but also in
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Although Israel is suffer-
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also the director general of
the new theater.

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