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Music Of The Soul
Singer, actor, playwright — Canadian diva
Theresa Tova does it all.
DIANA LIEBERMAN
Staff Writer
T
heresa Tova has acted on
stage and television, written
an award-winning musical
drama and sung roles as
diverse as Lady Jane in Gilbert and
Sullivan's Patience and Emma
Goldman in Ragtime.
But when the Canadian triple-threat
performer comes to metro Detroit
Oct. 18 to open the Birmingham
Temple's 2003-2004 Vivace Concert
Series, she'll be doing what she loves
best — cabaret-style singing.
"Singing appeals to the writer in me,
who loves great lyrics, and to the actor
in me, who gets to explore another
part of myself," Tova says.
With back-up by pianist Jeff
Johnston (a "major jazz guy" at
Montreal's McGill University), percus-
sionist Daniel Barnes, bassist Artie
Roth, and reed man Martin van de
Ven, the singer captures audiences
with an onslaught of Yiddish ballads,
Tin Pan Alley show tunes, acerbic
Sondheim rants and languorous
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Theresa Tova:
Her mastery of
three languages may
be seen as quintessen-
tially Canadian. But, in
fact, it's the heritage of
Eastern European Jewry.
French torch songs.
Tova claims she never creates a hard-
and-fast program when she performs
cabaret-style.
"I just allow my inner voice to give
me that 'oomph,"' she says.
"It's the improvisational aspect I
adore. I feel restricted when I'm
singing in a show, when it's the same
tempo every night, same order, same
resolution. When I play with my
band, I'm truly reaching into my soul."
Yiddish was Tova's first language,
and her Oct. 18 concert will center on
songs in what she describes as her
mamaloschen" (mother tongue). She's
also promised to include some stan-
dards from the American musical the-
ater repertoire at the 8 p.m. concert,
which will take place at Temple Shir
Shalom in West Bloomfield.
After that, she says, who knows?
Tova's mastery of three languages
may be seen as quintessentially
Canadian. But, in fact, it's the heritage
of Eastern European Jewry, a people
never fully accepted into the nations
that gave them shelter for a time,
before forcing them to flee.