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when she did not intend to be
an actress. She worked as a
child in the Jewish Children's
Theatre Company and at the
Henry Street Playhouse in
New York, and appeared off-
Broadway with Jean Stapleton
in The Corn Is Green, while she
was enrolled at the High School
of Performing Arts, studying
acting.
While in Tulsa, she directed
a temple production of 12
Angry Men, started a theater
company, directed her first
opera and gave birth to two
children. ("Being pregnant
never did slow me down very
much," she says.)
After moving to Detroit, she
was soon involved in the pro-
duction of opera at the temple,
and toured the area with Mot-
tel, a show focusing on the
children in Yiddish literature,
which was based on work by
Sholem Aleichem, but compil-
ed by Evelyn.
Since those early days, she
has branched out to television
and radio, also hosting various
interview programs around
town, directing an award-
winning drama, The Secret
Seder, for WJBK-TV, and ap-
pearing in CBS movies, Jimmy
B. and Andre and Word of

Honor.

"Martha was probably my
most difficult role ever," she
says, "because it was so much
against type. I'd always played
sympathetic characters, sort of
imderdog-victim roles — Birdie
in The Little Foxes, Nettie in
The Subject Was Roses —
things like that. And then, sud-
denly, somebody decided I
wasn't such a sympathetic type
after all)"

The schizophrenic, starved-
for-affection Bananas in The
Theatre Company's House of
Blue Leaves in 1976 is an all-
time personal favorite role, she
says. The role, played opposite
Max Wright began as a kind of
"sleeper" for her, she says, one
she was not especially attracted
to in the beginning. "I even-
tually saw that working with a
character who was insane, I
could be much freer than I
could when my characters were
confined by the protocol of sani-
ty and the 'rules' of society."
In 1985, she was briefly ab-
sent from Detroit-area theaters
when she appeared at the
Players' Theatre in New York
in The Mugger. Though the
play was short-lived, the New
York Times had only positive
comments for Evelyn Orbach's
performance.

Presently, she's working on a
one-woman show, . . . Of One
Cloth? (a segment of which is
written by Orbach), and gear-
ing up to celebrate this
weekend's silver anniversary
at Temple Israel. All four of the
Orbach children will be in town
for the event. Daughters
Sharon and Judy (an Emmy-
winning sound technician) live
in Los Angeles. Lila (also an
Emmy-whiner for her work in
TV's Kids Are People, Too) lives
in Ann Arbor, where she is
working toward a graduate
degree in journalism at the
University of Michigan. Son
Richard, a professional dancer
who will perform in Sunday's
concert, lives in Israel. Grand-
sons Raziel and Roey, and
granddaughter, Jessica, will
also attend. ❑

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Friday, May 15, 1987

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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Philadelphia (JTA) — Three
men, one of whom is Jewish,
have been arrested for van-
dalizing a predominantly
Jewish country club in
Cherry Hill, N.J. They could
face five years in jail and/or $
7,500 in fines, said Camden
County, N.J. Prosecutor Sam
Asbell last week. His office is
preparing the case for the
couty grand jury.
Police in Cherry Hill, where
the vandalized Woodcrest
Country Club is located, ar-
rested the three men and
charged them with creating
fear of bodily violence and
criminal mischief for their
attack on the club.
Maintenance workers
discovered anti-Semitic slurs
and obscenitie spray-painted
on the club's main building,
on the sidewalk and on a car
left overnight at the club.
Observers said it was worst
act of anti-Semitic vandalism
in years. Black swastikas

were also painted on the
club's gold course.
After receiving a tip, police
arrested Cherry Hill residents
Matthew Tannenbaum, 18,
and Todd Munro, 19, and
Lindenwold resident Jae Kim,
21.

ADL Project
Gets Peabody

New York — "A World of
Difference," a public service
campaign against prejudice
initiated by the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith in conjunction with
WCVB-TV Boston, has won a
George Foster Peabody
Award for distinguished
broadcasting in 1986.
Michigan's ADL has
launched a similar program
in the metropolitan Detroit
area, using newspapers, tele-
vision and schools.

