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desk job and was writing radio shows
out of New York," explains Sabellico,
who was assistant director to Laurents
on Gypsy, starring Tyne Daly, and has
worked with him on other occasions.
"It seems he saw a photo of four
guys on a South Pacific island and all
of a sudden this story came to him.
About two weeks later he wrote the
play. It has nine scenes and he wrote it
in nine nights. A big-time producer
read it, and after only three previews,
it opened on Broadway."
In 1949, Home of the Brave was
adapted by another screenwriter into a
movie, but, says Sabellico, the theme
was changed from anti-Semitism to
racism. 'Arthur v,rasn't happy about the
changes," the director says. "Not only
did Laurents want to keep it about anti-
Semitism, but the film was inaccurate.
During World War II, the troops were
segregated, and a black man would not
have fought alongside white men."
For the Jewish Rep's production,
Laurents, \\rho also wrote such movie
classics as The Way We Were, Anastasia
and The Turning Point, is the creative
consultant, and has been very
involved.
"Although the plot is the same,
Arthur changed some of the language
to make it more 1990s," Sabellico
says. "But he wouldn't put in any
four-letter words. To add such harsh-
ness wouldn't be appropriate."
Actor Robert Sella, who portrays
the Jewish soldier, says that doing the
play holds special meaning for him.
"My father was stationed in Europe
during World War II and was at
Dachau right after the liberation," says
the actor, who was most recently seen
on Broadway in Sideman and played
the emcee in the current Broadway
revival of Cabaret.
"He helped some of the Holocaust
survivors. I saw pictures he had taken
at the camp and even took them to
school when I was younger. I feel
doing this play is another way to con-
nect to my father and his experiences
during the war."
Sella, who was born in Phoenix and
lived in the Lincoln Park area of
Detroit from 1963-1970, says this
play also helps the younger generation
understand what the soldiers during
World War II endured.
"People who are too young to
remember can gain a whole new per-
spective," says the actor, who appeared
in touring companies of My Fair Lady
at the Fox Theatre and Angels in
America at the Fisher Theatre. "The
play is so well written that everyone
seeing it is in for a real treat."
While the play is scheduled to run
through Dec. 26, there is a possibility
it could be extended, or it .could wind
up in another New York venue.
"Arthur certainly knows many people
in the theater today," Sebellico points
out. "So you never know where Home of
the Brave will wind up next."
The Jewish Repertory Theatre
production of Home of the Brave
is scheduled to run through Dec.
26 at Playhouse 91, 316 E. 91st
St., New York. Performances are
8 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays; 7 p.m.
Sundays; with 2 p.m. matinees
on Wednesdays and Sundays.
Tickets are $35, except for
Saturday and Sunday, when they
are $40. (212) 831-2000
The mission of New York's
Jewish Repertory Theater, which
is now in its 26th season, is to
foster works about the Jewish
people. Coming up Feb.19 is
Syncopation, a new play with
dance by Allan Knee, about a
middle-aged Jewish man who
hopes to add meaning to his life
by advertising for a ballroom
dance partner, and Funny Girl,
scheduled for April 29.
Berenice Abbott
Suzanne Caporael
Richard Diebenkorn
Gunther Forg
Sam Francis
Jane Hammond
Al Held
David Hockney
Hans Hofmann
Roy Lichtenstein
Stephen Magsig
Will Mentor
Joan Miro
Robert Motherwell
Philip Pearlstein
Sharon Que
Robert Rauschenberg
Sean Scully
Kiki Smith
Frank Stella
Wayne Thiebaud
Tom Wesselman
Terry Winters
through Jan 29
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McGinn/Cazale Theater in New York
through Jan. 2, the play, which stars
Ron Leibman, confronts being Jewish
in America.
Jewish movie mogul Samuel Baum
wants to do a movie about anti-
Semitism in America, and he's com-
peting with other studios to be the
first to release such a film. He hires a
gentile writer to pen the script, hoping
he'll keep the movie light, but the
writer wants to explore the historical
background, religion and suffering of
the Jews.
Baum decides to invite the writer to
his son Adam's elaborate bar mitzvah,
in hopes that it will shift the writer's
focus to show how American Jews
have prospered. Adam's bar mitzvah
has the opposite effect. The writer
wants to concentrate on the religious
ceremony.
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