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ing," says Patterson proudly." The
sophisticated juggling is not especially
dangerous, but one year Patterson got
as many as 23 stitches on various parts
of his body after being nicked by mis-
cellaneous flying objects.
Patterson, 45, was born in Los
Angeles, the son of a Jewish mother,
now 88, and non-Jewish father, who
was a shepherd in South Dakota and
later moved west to work in the gar-
ment industry. His mother's parents
were Orthodox Jews.
"My father wasn't happy with my
career choice and used to call me a
bum ... until he saw me perform on
television," Patterson said. "That really
changed his mind. But I grew up as a
Conservative Jew, had a bar mitzvah
and even served as junior cantor of
our synagogue.
Magid, 46, was raised in Seattle, with
parents who had Sephardic roots traced
back to Spain. His father, a doctor, also
disliked what his son was doing for a
living, "until he saw our show on
Broadway," said Magid. "He had want-
ed me to have a nice 'Jewish-type job.'"
Patterson began juggling walnuts at
age 12, then branched out to other
items in high school and college. When
-
he had to stay home and rest for six
weeks during a bout with mononucleo-
sis, he passed the time by juggling any-
thing he could get his hands on.
Magid started juggling tennis balls in
college while waiting to play on the busy
tennis courts. The two met and became
good friends at the University of
California-Santa Cruz.
Patterson graduated with a degree in
biology, Magid with an English litera-
ture degree, and the two were co-vale-
dictorians of their class, sharing the
:speaCcers' podium at commencement.
"Then we-ran away and became the
circus," Patterson mused. We didn't
join ,a c - - ircus, like some old-time per-
formers ... we became a circus act. "
They juggled on street corners for
tips. "We would do 30 shows daily, at
about seven minutes per show, then
pass the hat — and we would some-
times get $800 a day in tips."
Their notoriety got them an audi-
tion for a musical show in the area,
and they were given one hour to
choreograph a juggling act for the tal-
ent scouts. They literally sprinted
more than a mile to get there on time
and perform. It was their big break.
They picked up two "brothers," who
have changed several times over the years,
and toured the nation, appearing six
times on and off-Broadway and in many
of the top venues in the United States.
The other two current Flying
Karamazov Brothers, both relatively new
to the group, are Mark Ettinger, a New
Yorker with a college degree in music,
whose father was a professional music
conductor from Austria, and Roderick
Kimball, born in Canada and raised in
Maine, who started juggling at 17.
The Karamazovs appeared in an
episode of Seinfild as the Flying
Sandos Brothers, and as themselves on
Ellen, The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
and ABC's Good Morning America.
A highlight of their career was their
stint in the movie The Jewel of the Nile
with Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner
and Danny DeVito.
Judaism is extremely important to
Patterson and Magid, who used to live
near each other in the small town of
Port Townsend, Wash. One would
"play" the rabbi and the other the can-
tor during Shabbat services and holi-
days for the tiny Jewish community.
They home-schooled their children
until "they just got too smart for us,"
Patterson asserted, "so we realized we
had to move to a larger city and put
them in school."
He moved to Portland, Ore., and
Magid returned to Seattle, but not
until both did extensive "shul shop-
ping" to make sure they were in the
right communities.
Patterson and his wife, Seiza, have
two teen-age sons, Jasper and Gavriel.
Magid and his wife, Rebecca Chace,
have two children, Pesha and Rebecca.
A few years ago, the Karamazovs
were booked into the Louisville, Ky.,
area around the High Holidays by
their agent "who keeps forgetting that
we're very religious and observe all of
the holidays," said Patterson.
"We always attend services in syna-
gogues wherever we travel. The only
shul we could find in Louisville was a
very Reform place that was just, well,
too Reform for us ... not to our liking
at all. So, we walked into the nearby
woods, put on our yarmulkes and tallit
and just davened by ourselves. It was
unusual, but, in our hearts, we knew
we were doing the right thing." ❑
The Flying Karamazov Brothers
bring L'Universe to Detroit's Music
Hall Center for the Performing
Arts for eight performances April
24-29. Show times are 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday; 2 and 8
p.m. Saturday; and 2 and 7 p.m.
Sunday. $20-$351 all opening
night tickets are $20. For informa-
tion, call (313) 983-6611; for tick-
ets, call (248) 645-6666.