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Adler, whose many Broadway credits
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usually stick to ethnic
Trying, traces his entertainment roots
music when performing to his grandparents, parents and
together, but the nine Chicago-based
uncles. They starred on the Jewish
instrumentalists soon will be loosen-
stage and brought him into their acts
ing up with songs by George and Ira
when he was still a preschooler.
Gershwin. That's because the
"Primarily, I'm a song-and-dance
klezmerists will be working this
man in the vaudeville style," says Adler,
month with versatile showman Bruce
a two-time Tony Award nominee who
Adler.
has been in touring companies per-
The occasion is the 69th
annual Balfour Celebration
Concert planned by the
Zionist Organization of
America. The show will get
started 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct.
20, at the Millennium Theater
in Southfield, where Harriet
and Norman Rotter will
receive the organization's high-
est citation of merit, the Justice
Louis D. Brandeis Award.
"I worked with the
Maxwell Street Band in
Dallas, and we had a great
time," says Adler, who
appeared with Israeli singer
Chava Alberstein at an earlier
Balfour Concert. "The group
will be doing their usual pro-
gram before joining me.
"My repertoire, which
includes some comedy,
changes so much that I won't Showman Bruce Adler mixes Yiddish stage
know the final plans until the numbers with Broadway show tunes.
day before the concert."
Adler, who mixes Yiddish stage
forming at the Fisher and Fox theaters.
numbers with Broadway show tunes,
"When I do the Yiddish theater
complements Maxwell Street, which
material, I do it in a very energetic,
offers traditional klezmer sounds
fresh way, and I Anglicize a lot of it
expressed through original music and
for those who don't speak Yiddish."
arrangements.
Adler, who also has appeared on
"Bruce is the heir to a long family
television's Law and Order and vocal-
tradition of performing in the Yiddish ized some parts in Disney's animated
theater, and our band draws on the
films Beauty and the Beast and
same traditions," says Lori Lippitz,
Aladdin, always includes two Jewish
who started her group in 1983 and
numbers in his concerts — "Rumania,
named it after a Jewish neighborhood
Rumania," a tongue-twisting song
in Chicago.
believed to be a big influence on
"We'll be doing a lot of material
Danny Kaye's style of fast-patter lyrics,
from our new CD, Old Roots, New
and "Hootsatsa," developed to recall
World," she said, "and we'll make an
the rhymed couplet songs made popu-
easy transition into Gershwin because
lar by vintage Jewish artists.
all of our musicians play in bands that
The Maxwell Street Band focuses on
perform other kinds of music."
the inspired side of the music and

