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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. I HERE'S TO ... 1 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. 4 -4