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Cafe Crown

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6, at the time. I was enthrall-
ed by it."
While Goz had a starring
part in the musical Chess,
checking into Cafe Crown
feels more natural, he says.
"For Chess I had to do a lot of
homework. For this, I didn't."
He smiles. "Here, I'm home."
Home is where the heart is,
and Charnin pulls up a chair
to set a spell in Cafe Crown.
The man who conceived An-
nie feels that this play is a
child, too.
After all, says Charnin,
Cafe Crown is a jewel of a play
about lineage. "It's about a
torch being passed from one
generation to another. It's
about family."

It's also about heritage.
"Look, there are many ethnic
plays being done these days.
You see black fetivals, Latin
festivals. How about a little
Yiddish?"
Charnin had more than just
a bissel of background in Yid-
dish. "I used to go to Cafe
Royal with my parents," he
says. His father, a cantor, also
sang at the Met under the
name of William Charnin.
When he told his mom that
he was resurrecting ageless
Cafe Crown under the aegis of
Joseph Papp's Public Theater,
Charnin smiles and says,
"She was thrilled, just thrill-
ed."
Audiences should be thrill-
ed too at seeing this revival —
but, advises Charnin, they
shouldn't come expecting a
matinee or evening awash in
sentimentality. "We are not
approaching this as a piece of
nostalgia," he says.
Not one to lay on the
shmaltz, Fyvush Finkel, as
likeable a man and performer
as one will find in the
business, lays on the turkey,
building a nice sandwich as
he sandwiches in memories
between bites. "This is a
point of pride," says the actor
of Cafe Crown. "I feel like I'm
back there with my family."
Finkel feeds on memories.
"I used to be there constant-
ly, at the Royal, before the
show and after the show," says
this Yiddish theater star.
"Things got done, taken care
of, at the Cafe Royal."
Indeed, it is reported that
Finkel commissioned a Yid-
dish song from noteworthy
composer Isadore Lillien at
the cafe. The Yiddish parody
of the then-popular Rum and
Coca Cola was a done deal —
for $5. The song became a
staple in Finkel's act.
"I played the Yiddish stage
from 1936 to 1964. Today,"
and he waves his hand as a
gesture of lament,
"everything costs so much in
theater, how can they do it?
Well, today they do the best
That they can." Li

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