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Soverinsky Aryeh
Larry Miller — Kalamatke
Armand. Banooni — Yoss'l
Pamela Shiffer — Chanah

SUPPORTING PL&YERS

Betsy Heuer
Miriam Goldberg
Frank Ellias
Jan Jacobs
Murray Baruch
Harriet Goldman
Richard Jacobs
Brian Golden

CHORUS

Susan Maniloff
Geri Levit
Freda Mendelson
Gloria Bookstein
Rob Savage
Tim Wolf
Ralph Goren
Barbara Maxwell
liana Goldberg
Amy Margolin
Felicia Pesis
han Adelson
Menachem Weiss
Elizabeth Lovinger
Jay Winkler

PRODUCTION sliming

Martin Mandelbaum —
Music Director
Beth. Rubinstein — Set Designer
Marty Gant — Technical
Director
Christine Dubov —
Choreography Assistant
Sheryl Zeiger —
Costume Designer
Steve Winkler — Assistant
Stage Manager

As Butleroff comes to work on
the show for two weeks, she takes a
break from her latest and currently
running New York production,
Miami Beach Monsters, a vaudeville
show about Frankenstein and
Dracula in retirement. She remem-
bers Southfield in the summers of
her childhood, when she came to
stay with grandparents, the Irish side
of her family.
"When I was auditioning people
for the show, it brought back so many
wonderful memories of when I was a
little girl," says Butleroff, 53, whose
career follows her parents, both
Broadway dancers who met while
working in a play starring Betty
Grable and Bert Lahr. "My father
worked in the ballet company at the
Radio City Music Hall, and my moth-
er was a Rockette. So was I."
Butleroff's career started when she
was hired as a regular on The
Children's Hour, a TV show for the
younger set that was choreographed
by her mother. After studying the-
ater at Hunter and Queens colleges,
the younger Butleroff became chore-
ographer at the Yiddish Anderson
Theatre. She moved on to
Broadway's Mack and Mabel, where
her work as dance captain gave her
enough leverage to push on as a
choreographer and director both in
professional theater and industrial
projects.
Although her touring work is cer-
tainly very different from Yiddle's,
Butleroff knows what it means to
bring shows to many audiences out-
side her hometown. She's worked on
The Music Man in Maine, Funny Girl
in Kansas, Sweet Charity in
Pennsylvania and The Boy Friend in
Rhode Island, to name a few.
"The music in Yiddle With a Fiddle
is probably some of the most melodic
music I've heard in a show," says
Butleroff, whose psychologist hus-
band, Robert Leahy, will be in town
for the performances. "The tunes are
memorable, and you can leave hum-
ming them."

NOVEMBER 17
THROUGH
DECEMBER 31

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