THE FAMILY LIFE CENTER
of Temple Israel

In conjunction with

The Temple Treasures and The Caring Community

AS PART OF OUR REGULAR AFTERNOON PROGRAM FOR SENIORS
INVITES YOU TO A TOE TAPPING AFTERNOON WITH

THE GREAT LAKES CHORUS
SWEET ADELINES

Thursday, May 20, 1999 • 1:30-3:00 pm
Temple Israel

Rabbi Stark will be there to greet and chat with us.

Please join us for coffee, cookies, and good company.
Come alone or bring a friend. Open to the community
free of charge. No reservations necessary.

Having It All?

Please call Kari K. Provizer, ASCW:
Director of the Family Life Center, if you have any questions.
(248) 661-5700

In `A. Moms Life," Kathryn Grody wrote
a play about motherhood — and life
with Mandy Patinkin (her husband).

Funded by the David and Lois Stulberg Foundation

loves almost every minute of it.
Since Kathryn Grody is married to
Special to the Jewish News
singer/actor/intense human being
Mandy Patinkin, there is a certain
athryn Grody steps out of
added sense of spice to the mono-
the wings and strides pur-
logue, eavesdropping, if you will, on
posely through the auditori-
Mr. Mamaloshen. But there is noth-
um toward waiting friends.
ing here for Enquiring minds.
She looks remarkably transformed.
He told me not to be afraid to be
Grody is writer and star of an
truthful," Grody says. Still, Patinkin
eponymous one-woman show, A
can't wait for her to finish the sequel,
Mom's Lift. She just ended a two-
A Mom's Life II, she says, "so he can
month run of Sunday afternoon and
redeem himself."
Monday evening performances at the
For the record, Grody was originally
Arc Light Theater in New York City.
Grodetsky, and though it
Just minutes before, her
doesn't come up often,
hair was frazzled, her body
Ab ove:
there are times people look
Kathryn Grody in
schvitzing, her look
the autobi ographical at her blue eyes and
disheveled; before she'd
`A Mon
"assume I'm not [Jewish].
been a morn, now she was a
My husband assumed that."
person.
No, he didn't check her religious affili-
It is this distinction that is at the
ation before they started dating. "In fact,
heart of this autobiographical play. For
it was just the opposite. He was looking
1 1/2 hours, the "mom" cares for her
for a shiksa. I don't think seriously, but
imaginary children; worries over them;
that's what he thought. He was surprised
gets up in the middle of the night
when he found out I was Jewish."
when they cry (while her husband
Grody did not consciously think of
turns over in his sleep); changes her
making her character Jewish, and isn't
own plans when he calls at the last
sure the play's unnamed character is
second to say he won't be able to take
Jewish. But it wouldn't surprise her,
the children to the park after all; and
"because my experience of this little
allows him ro play the role of daddy
“
aspect of motherhood is from that
( someone has to teach these kids dis-
perspective; that's what I am.
cipline") when he's there. And she
She certainly demonstrates a partic-
Curt Schleier writes from his home in
ularly Jewish kind of angst about her

CURT SCHLEIER

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