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Clare Mead Rosen, of Bloomfield Hills,
who has four minor roles in the chorus of
Evita, brings a professional background to
the musical. Her father, Ralph Mead, was
a director and actor in California and
Houston and cast her in several produc-
tions.
"The Evita chorus is very active with
many small parts, and I'm a governess,
reporter, secretary and someone col-
lecting tributes for Evita," Rosen says.
"It's a very kinetic show."
Rosen, who has lived in this area for
seven years, found an especially interesting
role in St. Dunstan's production of
Nunsense. She had been a nun for 10 years
before converting to Judaism.

vita, the largest musical pro-
duction ever to be staged by
St. Dunstan's Theatre Guild
of Cranbrook, features a
large contingent of Jewish theater
enthusiasts — starting with director
Mark Nathanson.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim
Rice musical, to be performed May
31-June 8 at the outdoor Greek
Theatre on the Cranbrook grounds,
tells the story of Eva Peron, the second
wife of Argentine dictator Juan Peron.
The production, performed in an oper-
atic style, reveals the per-
sonality.of this powerful
and controversial woman,
who died of cancer at age
33.
"This play is very dra-
matic and an artistic chal-
lenge," says Nathanson, a
University of Michigan
communications and the-
ater graduate who has
worked in production for
public television. "While it
profiles Eva Peron, it also
has to do with the impact Jewish members involved with St. Dunstan's
of fascism in Argentina."
production of "Evita" include, back row, left to right:
Nathanson, who has
Kathy Storchan, Clare Mead Rosen, Director Mark
been affiliated with St.
Nathanson, Don Schore; and front row, left to right:
Dunstan's for the past 10
Assistant Music Director Peggy Lee (who is converting
years, has worked on a
to Judaism), Cindy Korn and Rebecca Biber.
number of musicals, from
Grease to Damn Yankees.
"Some of the fun things I remember
"We're including a lot of people who
from being a nun came back while I was
recently have joined our company as
doing the show," she says. "I also have
well as those who have been around for
taught drama in a convent."
many years," says Nathanson, who lives
Rosen left the convent intent on
in Royal Oak. "We're excited because
journalism
opportunities and became a
it's the first time we've done this show."
religion reporter for Time magazine in
Kathy Storchan, who portrays Evita's
New York, where her interest in
mother, has returned td St. Dunstan's
Judaism grew. She liked the "liturgy,
after many years away from this stage.
home ceremonies and peoplehood."
"I was in St. Dunstan's summer pro-
Rosen, who now does freelance
gram in the 1950s and 1960s," says
advertising writing, has sung in
Storchan, who directs bilingual pro-
Hebrew choirs. A former member of
grams at the Wayne County Regional
Congregation Beth Ahm, she occasion-
Education Service Agency. "I grew up
ally attends Temple Beth El.
in an era when Detroit students had
Don Schore, also with some profes-
auditorium classes, and I was in plays
sional theater experience, has a number
at Temple Beth El."
of parts in the Evita chorus. He por-
Storchan, a Farmington Hills resi-
trays a general, aristocrat and everyday
dent, enjoys the way theater allows her
Argentinian.
to become someone else.