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Chaim's Love Song
Raymond J. Greenwald Theater
307 W. 26th St., NYC
Tickers: (212) 633-6322
Playing: Wednesdays at 5 and 8
p.m., Thursdays at 2 p.m., Fridays
and Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m.,
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Prices: All tickets $35

The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
New York Theater Workshop
79 E. 4th St., NYC
Tickets: (212) 460-5475
Playing: Tuesdays-Sundays at 8
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Prices: $45 (828 for seniors, $12
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Parade
Vivian Beaumont Theater (at
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150 W 65th St., NYC
Tickets: (212) 239-6200
Playing: Tuesdays-Saturdays at 8
p.m., with matinees Wednesdays
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Prices: $40-$75

2 1/2 Jews
Raymond J. Greenwald Theater
307 W. 26th St., NYC
Tickets: (212) 239-6200
Playing: Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays at 8
p.m., Wednesdays at 2 p.m., and
Sundays at 4 and 7 p.m.
Prices: All tickets $32.50

Zise Khaloymes (Sweet Dreams)
Folksbienne Yiddish Theater
424 W. 55th St., NYC
Tickets: (212) 239-6200
Playing: Wednesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays at 2 and 8 p.m.,
and Sundays at 2 and 5:30 p.m.
Prices: $25 and $30

The American Jew
Jewish Theater of New York, at
the American
422 W. 42nd St., NYC
Tickets: (212) 307-4100
Playing: Mondays, Wednesdays-
Sundays at 3 and 8 p.m. Now in
previews. Opens Jan. 7.
Prices: All tickets $35

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"My life was typical," says Stewart.
"I played a little Little League base-
ball. I never wanted for food. I always
had shoes. I had a room. There were
no great tragedies.
"There were the typical ups and
downs, but I wouldn't say it was at all
sad. We were Jewish, living in the sub-
urbs, so there was a slightly neurotic
bent to it, but I can't point to anything
where a boy overcame a tragedy to
become a comedian. As my grand-
mother used to say, 'I can't complain."'
When did he realize he was funny?
"What time is it?" he replies. Actually,
humor bubbled out of him at a young
age. "I realized it was a way of getting
attention pretty early on. There was a
sense of 'this feels good' to say some-
thing that made everybody laugh. It
was a rhythm that made sense to me."
After college at William & Mary —
"a good Jewish school" — Stewart
made the rounds of the comedy clubs.
If it didn't work out, he planned to
head for law school — "as if the world
needed more lawyers," he says. But it
did work out — despite his first joke.
It goes like this: "It's lunch time in
the diamond district. All the stores
close down and the street is filled with
Chasidim, who suddenly find them-
selves caught in Yidlock.
"In New York City it got a big
laugh. Every now and then." Pause. "I
didn't use it for a long time."
Still, Stewart's rise was meteoric, in
an Armageddon sort of way. In 1993,
he landed the MTV talk show, and
just two years later he was signed by
Paramount to go into syndication,
which turned out not to be exactly
the big time.
Never able to achieve the ratings its
inventiveness deserved, his show was
further weakened because it couldn't
get top guests. "We'd only get people
already in town and not yet tired of
doing talk shows. We were like hyenas
in [the desert] looking for carcasses."
But the experience didn't leave him
bitter. It led to other experiences and
words of wisdom from Letterman.
"He said something that stayed with
me: 'Never confuse cancellation with
failure.' I didn't get into this business
to play it safe. I know I can always go
back to law school." ❑

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12/25
1998

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