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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1989
Jewish Center Arts Division
Adds Kosher Dinner-Theater
DANNY RASKIN
Local Columnist
T
he introduction of
kosher, musical, din-
ner-theater to
Michigan marks a first-time
endeavor thought of many
times throughout the years
but never fully realized.
Although it will be one
night only Saturday, with
dinner at 8:15 p.m. and cur-
tain following in the 300-350
capacity Shiffman Hall of the
Maple/Drake Jewish Com-
munity Center, many now see
this as the beginning of
something which could prove
a successful ongoing
endeavor.
Kosher dinner-theater in
itself cannot hold claim to be-
ing a first, according to Adele
Silver, cultural arts director
at the Center. "We tried it
about a year after the Jewish
Center on Maple and Drake
opened around 10 years ago,"
says Silver. "It was with the
Center Players and lasted one
season."
Now comes kosher, musical,
dinner-theater. "If it suc-
ceeds," says Silver, "we'll cer-
tainly do more. We're very ex-
cited about being able to
serve the total Jewish popula-
tion with a kosher dinner-
theater?'
The show, Over the Rain-
bow, is a tribute to the late
great Judy Garland and could
be the first in a series of
kosher dinner-theaters at the
Jewish Community Center.
Shiffman Hall at the Center
has already been booked for
dinner and show New Year's
Eve of 1989 with the presen-
tation of Nancy Gurwin Pro-
duction's I Do! I Do! Its
highly-successful kosher
dinner-theater was held New
Year's eve of 1987 with Gur-
win starring in Broadway
Lullaby and was sold out
within five days.
"Jewish people who or-
dinarily would not partake of
dinner-theater because of
dietary laws," says Gurwin,
"are given the opportunity to
do so because of the Jewish
Community Center's ex-
cellent reputation and ban-
quet facility."
Already a seeming fixture
at the Jewish Community
Center with her regular
shows, Gurwin has visions
that in this and future
seasons, some nights will be'
allocated to kosher dinner-
theater every time a new per-
formance is run.
The togetherness of Gurwin
and Jewish Center in presen-
tation of kosher, musical,
dinner-theater, could be a
long one. "I love the warmth
of dinner and theater under
one roof," says Gurwin, "and
our experiences with the
Jewish Center have been very
good. Giving many people an
opportunity they never had
before thrills me no end. Why
should they not be alowed to
see musicals of the greats per-
formed professionally while
also having the chance to
dine according to their
dietary beliefs?"
One of the areas premier
show persons, known to many
for years as "The First Lady
of Dinner-Theater," Gurwin
and her Nancy Gurwin Pro-
ductions have been presen-
ting shows, both musicals and
Adele Silver
comedies, for 13 years with
more than 27 major
productions.
She first appeared at the
Jewish Center in fall 1986 in
Funny Girl and is in her third
season, producing Diary of
Ann Frank, Gypsy, Starting
Here, Starting Now, Fiddler
On The Roof Guys and Dolls,
and Snoopy. Gurwin will star
as Annie Oakley, April 29
through May 13 in the
highly-acclaimed Irving
Berlin hit musical Annie Get
Your Gun. The one-night per-
formance of Over The Rain-
bow Saturday, will be with
Gurvvin's own sound man and
sound system on the stage
provided by the Jewish Com-
munity Center.
Why the selection of Over
The Rainbow, A Tribute to
Judy Garland, as the first
kosher, musical, dinner-
theater in Michigan? "In all
musical reviews that I've seen
and been involved in," says
Gurwin, "emphasis has
always been on the composer
(Porter, Gershwin, Rodgers
Nancy Gurwin
and Hammerstein, etc.) I
thought that paying tribute
to Judy Garland would be
very exciting because of all
the wonderful songs that are
identified with her."
Henry Sperber of Sperber's
North at the Jewish Com-
munity Center, will prepare
the food for Michigan's first
kosher dinner-theater. "It
will be a full-course buffet
dinner," says Sperber.
The buffet will be set up by
Esther Tuchklaper, assistant
cultural arts director, and
members of hers and Silver's
staff. Price for both the
kosher dinner and theater
will be $30 general admission
and $27.50 seniors.
So the question we ask
ourselves, how do you in-
troduce kosher dinner theater
to Michigan? You don't since
it has already been done at
the Jewish Community
Center, if only for one year, ac-
cording to Silver.
But you do say hello to
kosher, musical, dinner-
theater, a true first for the
dine and song duo in
Michigan.
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Detroiters Go
To NJCRAC
Detroit will send a record
number of delegates to the
1989 National Jewish Com-
munity Relations Advisory
Council Plenum, which will
take place Sunday through
Wednesday in Washington,
D.C. Representing Detroit
are: Alex Bensky, Alexander
Blumenberg, Paul D. Borman,
David Gad-Harf, Allan Gale,
Oscar and Beatrice Hertz,
Miriam and Laurence Imer-
man, David Lebenbom, Dr.
Alden Leib and Marian
Shifman.
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