Congregation
Shaarey Zedek

Presents:

The 1997 Laker Concert

December 7, 1997, 3:00 p.m.

including Wendy Wasserstein.
lactic mastectomy hoping to avoid the
Another play, An Unorthodox
condition that otherwise seemed her
produced by the secular
Arrangement,
destiny only to learn that the patholo-
Buffalo
Ensemble
Theatre, is about a
gist detected a form of cancer that
Reform
Jewish
family
reacting to a
does not show up on a mammogram.
daughter's becoming Orthodox.
"It's been a year and a half since
"I would love to get The Shiva
I've had my surgery and been diag-
Queen into one of the off- Broadway
nosed, and I'm still doing fine and
theaters,"
Ritchie said. "I think New
.
intend to continue doing fine," said
York
audiences
would respond very'
Ritchie, who maintains a full schedule
well,
although
I
can't imagine any bet-
as a wife, mother and full-time attor-
ter
audience
than
the one in West
ney, fitting in writing whenever she
Bloomfield,
where
they had the staged
can.
reading last season." ❑
"I have attempted to stick very
close to Jewish tradition in everything
I've written. Most of my plays have
specific Jewish content because I
believe there should be a body of work
documenting current Jewish life in
America, especially the sociology of it.
"At a time when there's great con-
flict among Jewish groups, I think this
is a unique period in Jewish history,
and my plays attempt to describe it."
Ritchie, who received a law degree
from the University of Pennsylvania,
began writing after moving to Buffalo,
where her attorney husband works in
a family business. She did articles for
The Buffalo News and The Buffalo
Jewish Review.
While on hiatus to take care of the
couple's three children when they were
still preschoolers, Ritchie attended the
International Women's Playwrights
Center and decided to come up with a
piece based on women she knew.
In the Beginning gives a comic take
on events in the Garden of Eden and
was selected to be in Facing Forward,
an anthology of plays by women,

Coming Attractions

JET's season continues in 1998
with Taking Sides by Ronald
Harwood, The Cemetery Club by
Ivan Menchell and the Seymour J.
and Ethel S. Frank 1998 Festival of
New Plays.
Taking Sides, running Feb. 11-
March 8, is a courtroom drama set
in post-World War II Berlin about
Wilheim Furtwangler, chief conduc-
tor of the Berlin Philharmonic dur-
ing the Third Reich. A determined
American Army major attempts to
"nail" Furtwangler as a collaborator,
but the major's young German sec-
retary and a music-loving Jewish
lieutenant who survived the concen-
tration camps surprisingly come to
Furtwangler's support.
The Cemetery Club, running April

22-May 24, concerns three widows
in their early 50s who make month-
ly visits to their husbands' graves —
until their friendship is threatened
by a widower visiting his wife's
grave. Lucille is the mature, experi-
enced woman seeking a sexy, attrac-
tive man half her age and, twice the
fun. Ida is sensitive and caring and
seeking a warm and loving man to
share her autumn years; she'd prefer
a butcher. Doris is lonely and not
ready for a new relationship. Guess
who captures the widower's eye!
JET's Festival of New Plays, run-
ning May 27-June 18, introduces
staged readings of four previously
unproduced works, followed by a
discussion with audience, authors,
actors and directors.

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The Shaarey Zedek Youth Choir Directed by
Deena Pearlman Weisberg will participate in the Concert

Join us for an afternoon of
music and comedy!

For more information
call: 248-357-5544

Open to the public
Free admission

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