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is the shtetl where my father was born.
And what happened in the shtetl is an
actual account."
Sherman learned about the plight of
his grandparents firsthand; they lived
close by when he was growing up. The
playwright was born in Philadelphia and
raised in a kosher home in Camden,
N.J.
With a passion for writing, Sherman
penned his first script before his bar
mitzvah. He went on to earn a degree in
theater at Boston University. "My par-
ents were extremely supportive, which
was very helpful," he says.
His first professional production was
Next Year in Jerusalem, which played
Off-Off Broadway in 1967. From there
he had a string of successes, including
Messiah, When She Danced, A Madhouse
in Goa and Some Sunny Day.
His biggest hit has been the Tony-
nominated Bent, about the persecution
of homosexuals in Germany during
World War II.
Before Rose debuted on the New York
stage, it made its world premiere at the
London Royal National Theatre last
summer and toured throughout
England.
"We brought the play to a town
called Guildford, that hasn't seen a Jew
since the Inquisition," laughs Sherman,
who has a permanent residence in
London. "At first sales weren't great,
because people read what it was about
and it didn't generate much interest. But
after opening night the audience reacted
positively, and by the third night we
were sold out."
Sherman currently is busy working
on a number of films for the European
market, including an adaptation of
Israeli novelist David Grossman's See
Under: Love, set in a Nazi concentration
camp.

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here are, of course, other
Jewish-themed plays that are
worth the price of a ticket in
New York. Two of note are
Abie's Island Rose and Copenhagen.
Off-Broadway's Abie's Island Rose,
with book by Ron Sproat and music
and lyrics by Doug Katsaros (additional
lyrics by Richard Enquist and Frank
Evans) opens May 7 at the Jewish
Repertory Theatre.
The musical tells the story of a 20-
something Jewish New York City stu-
dent who wants to attend medical
school in the Caribbean against the
wishes of his overbearing mother. She
would rather her son go into his father's
plastic figurine business, but he follows
his own dream and enrolls.

A Caribbean medical-school educa-
tion isn't the only thing he winds up
with — the young man falls in love with
and marries an Afro-Caribbean girl,
causing a huge conflict for the parents
on both sides.
This updated version of the classic
Abie's Irish Rose stars Heather MacRae,
Keith Lee Grant and Steven Rosen.
Katsaros, also music director for
Broadway's Footloose, serves as director
for this production as well.
Receiving much Tony buzz is

Photo by Carol Rosegg

et.

Steven Rosen and Carla Woods in the
JewishRzertory Theatre production of
nd Rose."
"Abie's

Michael Frayn's new play, Copenhagen, a
gripping story inspired by a 1941 meet-
ing between two brilliant physicists on
opposite sides during World War H
whose work opened the way to the atom
bomb.
German physicist Werner Heisenberg
worked for the Nazis; his mentor was
the Danish and half-Jewish Niels Bohr,
who resided in Nazi-occupied Denmark.
Heisenberg made a secret trip to
Copenhagen to see Bohr in 1941.
Frayn's play deals with the moral and
human dilemmas of these friends during
wartime. ❑

Dinner with Friends is showing in an
open-ended run at the Variety Arts
Theater, 110 Third Ave., in New
York City. For tickets, call 239-
6200.
Rose runs through May 20 at the
Lyceum Theater, 149 West 45th St.,
in New York City. For tickets, call
(212) 239-6200.
Abie's Island Rose, playing May 7-
21, takes the stage at the Jewish
Repertory Theatre's Playhouse 91,
316 East 91st St., New York City.
For tickets, call (212) 831-2000.
Copenhagen enjoys an open-
ended run at the Royale Theatre,
242 West 45th St., New York City.
For tickets, call (212) 239-6200.

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