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This concert will include a memorial to Cantor Louis Klein.
For more information please contact the B'nai Moshe office
at (248)788-0600.

Cathy Ladman: "I would love to have my own series."

Chatty Cathy

Comedian Cathy Ladman shares her observations
about modern-day life in her one-woman show.

JULIE WEINGARDEN

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Special to The Jewish News

A poignant, warm
and romantic
play featuring
Sol Freider.

JCC • Aaron DeRoy Theatre

6600 West Maple Rd • West Bloomfield

(248) 788-2900

http://comnet.org/jet

4/30
1999

88 Detroit Jewish News

Student • Senior • Group Discounts Available

er hair is curly and dark,
she talks with a nasally
whine, she's hilarious and
she dated Jcrry. You're
thinking Elaine on Seinfeld, right?
-
Nope.
She's comedian Cathy Ladman, a
New York native who dwells in Santa
Monica, Calif., with her husband and
mutt, Preston. A winner of the
American Comedy Award for best
female stand-up comic who's had her
own HBO comedy special, Ladman
considers her greatest accomplish-
ment to be her one-woman show.
"It's a stretch for me because it isn't
all funny, and that's what I'm moving
toward — encompassing more than
just jokes," she says.
Like other Jewish comedians, she
uses the stage to vent. She shares her
gripes and neuroses while weaving in

Julie Weingarden is a Royal Oak-
based freelance writer

cynical commentary on relationship
and marriage — mainly hers. Some
cracks are as light as "I just ended a
relationship ... I got married," while
others dig into faith: "I believe all
religions are the same. Religion is
basically guilt with different holi-
days.
Ladman will bring her act to Mark
Ridley's Comedy Castle in Royal 0a ,'„/
Wednesday-Sunday, May 5-9.
It is important to Ladman to be
open and honest — even if her par-
ents aren't always thrilled about it
and, though supportive, didn't always
approve of her choice of career.
"My mother doesn't like that I talk
about my parents' arguments on The
-/
Tonight Show," she says. But the
comedian gets some of her greatest
feedback from fans when she talks
about her family. "I like when people
come up and say, 'You're talking
about my mother," she says.
Her other major television appear-
ances include recurring roles on
NBC's Caroline in the City and
Comedy Central's Dr. Katz: