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Actress Finds Letdowns
Can Bring Success
HARLAN ABBEY
Special to The Jewish News
A
cting is a frustrating
profession, and De-
troiter Jennifer Jay
Myers learned about disap-
pointments early.
"I was in a Purim play in
second grade and I was cast
as Vashti — but I wanted to be
Esther," she recalled during a
recent appearance in Buffalo,
N.Y., where she was cast as
Polly Brown in The Boy
Friend, the role that brought
stardom to Julie Andrews.
"Anyway," I remember I
had to run up the aisle,
screaming, because I was go-
ing to be killed. Then the rest
of the cast came down the
other aisle with a shrunken
head, that was supposed to be
mine."
But that was Myers' last
disappointment in her
Detroit career. The daughter
of Rodman Nathaniel and
Jeanette Myers of Bloomfield
Hills, soon had the leads in
plays at Hampton Elemen-
tary School, Temple Beth El
in Birmingham and Andover
High School.
Her first "tour" was in a
play that Rabbi Dannel
Schwartz formerly of Beth El
wrote for the temple's youth
group, which was performed
all over Michigan and once in
Ohio. Myers was enrolled in
the Will-O-Way Apprentice
Theater on weekends, sang in
her school's choruses and had
private singing lessons. She
also found time to be active in
Michigan State Temple Youth
group, even serving as a state
board member for two years.
She was confirmed at Beth El
in ninth grade.
Her father, an attorney,
always told his daughter,
when discussions of her
future came up: "You can do
your acting in the courtroom."
But she always replied, "But
what about the musical
numbers?"
"It wasn't that he and Mom
lacked confidence in my
talent, it was because they
felt I could have a more stable
life if I went into law," she
said. "When it came time to
apply to colleges and I enroll-
ed at Northwestern to major
in theater, it was a pretty
foregone conclusion." She was
graduated from Northwestern
in 1981.
But there, it was back to be-
ing a member of the chorus
and small roles as a
freshman, then gradually
working her way up to lead
roles. And after graduation,
off to Los Angeles for "com-
mercials, small TV things, a
PBS film and some live
musical theater," she recalled.
Several months later, her
home state beckoned: "I went
to Birmingham to perform in
Oliver, which was important
because I also could get my
Actors Equity card. It was
there that I changed my
name."
Not competely, she pointed
out. "There was another Jen-
nifer Myers in Equity, and I'd
always hated my middle