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News 6- Reviews

A 'Titanic' Tale

actor, married for almost five years.
Young was last seen in Meadow
Brook's 1996 version of A Christmas
Carol. Recent credits include Macbeth
for Nevada Shakespeare in the Park,
The Dybukk at LaJolla Playhouse and

The stage is a family matter for David
Ellenstein, who stars in Scotland Road
at Meadow Brook Theatre.
His father, Robert Ellenstein, is an
actor-director. His
brother, Peter
Ellenstein, is a pro-
ducer-director. His
wife, Denise
Michelle Young, is
an actress and
appears with him in
the_Rochester pro-
duction.
"1-knew I wanted
to be -an actor when I
watched my dad do a
national tour of Irma
La Douce with Juliet
Prowse," says David Above: David Ellenstein and Denise Michelle Young in
Meadow Brook's production of "Scotland Road"
Ellenstein, who was
a preschooler then.
In his current role, Ellenstein hits
Love Letters and Same Time Next Year
choppy waters with the Titanic as the
for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.
subject. He portrays the great-grand-
"I've played a wide variety of parts,
son of John Jacob Astor, who was on
and that includes Jewish parts," says
the ship, and comes across as lonely,
Ellenstein, who has helped coordinate
detached and obsessed with trivia
the Streisand Festival of New Jewish
about the disaster.
Plays in California. "I've learned a lot
The time of the play is the present,
about my religion through my roles."
when Ellenstein's character investigates
— Suzanne Chessler
a woman picked up on an iceberg and
claiming to be a survivor of that ship-
wreck. Ellenstein's wife takes the part
Scotland Road runs
of that woman.
Wednesdays-Sundays through
"Although the play sets itself up as a
March 7 at the Meadow Brook
straight mystery drama, it ends up ask-
Theatre. Call for show times.
ing about life and death and issues sur-
$24 $35. (248) 377- 3300.
rounding spirituality," says Ellenstein,
41, who lives in Los Angeles.
A graduate of the Banff Center
School of Fine Arts in Canada,
Ellenstein has been in three other
Kurt Weill: Symphony No. 2, Violin
plays at Meadow Brook — Beau Jest,
Concerto and Mahagonny-Suite;
Jest a Second' and A Christmas Carol.
Mariss Jansons, conductor;
He has worked as an actor and direc-
Frank Peter Zimmerman, violin;
tor at regional theaters across the
Berlin Philharmonic
country, including the Arizona
When discussing the music of Kurt
Theatre Company, LaJolla Playhouse,
Julian Weill (1900-1950), the conver-
Portland Repertory Theatre and Great
sation invariably turns to the "two
Lakes Theatre Company. Television
Weills": the serious European compos-
has cast him in episodes of "The
er and the lightweight Weill who
Practice," "General Hospital" and
wrote
for Broadway after he was
other series.
forced
to leave Nazi Germany.
In Portland, Ellenstein worked with
There's more than a hint of snob-
Meadow Brook artistic director
bery involved when comparing the
Geoffrey Sherman, who brought him
European Weill with the American
to Michigan.
Weill: The European works are often
"It's not often that my wife and I
said to be superior to his more corn-
are able to get jobs together," says the

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