TEMPLE ISRAEL

cordially invites you to

Master
Of The
Musical

mitzvah in every line I speak."
he students and staff at the
Master, 33, lives in Birmingham with
Jewish Academy of
his
miniature schnauzer named Gretzky
Metropolitan Detroit in
("I'm
a huge hockey fanatic"). He's
West Bloomfield are getting
enjoyed
a longtime love affair with the
accustomed to seeing their very own
stage, and musicals in particular. "I start-
Tevye singing in the hallways.
ed acting when I was 5," he says. His
In fact, Mitch Master, head of the
favorite childhood role was "Oliver" at
school's performance and fine arts
age 9.
department, practices his Tevye voice
The family moved from West
every chance he gets. He's honing the
Bloomfield
to Birmingham to
character for the upcoming Bloomfield
Huntington Woods,
Players' production
and Master kept
of Fiddler on the Roof
auditioning for and
at the Lahser High
snagging parts in a
School Theater.
variety of produc-
Master came to the
tions. He attended
part quite by chance,
theater camps, got
though it seems to be
on the auto show
a perfect fit for his
circuit and managed
talents.
to complete an
"I went to the
advertising degree at
audition to support
Grand Valley State
one of my students,
University, after
Deborah Anstandig,
graduating from
a 10th-grader with
Berkley High
an incredible voice,"
School.
says Master. Though
"Finally, I left for
he hadn't performed
L.A.
to break into
in a musical since his
the
business."
He
voice changed at age
found
an
agent,
15, Master got
Mitch Master as Tevye: `YI dream part." went on auditions
caught up in the
and "waited lots of
moment and sang "If
tables" during the
I Were A Rich Man,"
two
years
he
spent
in
Tinseltown.
a tune he remembered belting out for
When
he
returned
home,
he turned
friends and relatives when he was a kid.
his
attention
to
teaching
and
directing,
To his surprise, he was chosen for the
becoming
the
youth
theater
director
at
part of Tevye, "a dream part," says
The
Community
House
in
Master. Anstandig plays Tevye's daughter
Birmingham. He also taught drama at
Hodel alongside her teacher.
the Marvin L. Winans charter perform-
"Playing Tevye is like being on a roller
ing arts school in Detroit.
coaster of emotion," says Master. "He
"I've found my niche in teaching,"
reacts off everyone else in the cast. What
says
Master.
a great character."
"I
truly feel like a rich man." El
Dan Greig, the music teacher at the
Jewish Academy, has been working with
— Linda Bachrack
Master to perfect the Tevye voice. "They
limit my dancing, though," admits
Master. "I do most of my dancing in the
Bloomfield Players presents
wedding scene."
Fiddler
on the Roof 8 p.m.
Master is no stranger to Tevye. For his
Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m.
bar mitzvah at the Birmingham Temple,
he picked Sholem Aleichem, the author
Sunday, Dec. 8-10 and 15-17,
who wrote the story on which Fiddler is
at Lahser High School Theater,
based, as the Jewish notable he most
Bloomfield Hills. All seats are
wanted to study.
$10. Call (248) 433-0885 for
"My bar mitzvah included a mono-
logue from parts of Fiddler," says Master.
ticket information.
"Now I find there's a little bit of my bar

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