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daughter. Neither Berg nor Mesmer is
Jewish.
"It's a real delicious story, full of nos-
talgia, honesty, sincerity and commit-
ment," Orbach commented. "It's a story
for 'today's' women. It describes the old
era when the women's role was to stay
home and cook and just help the men.
And if they had jobs when the men
were away fighting World War II, they
had to relinquish those jobs when the
men returned. But this story also tells
about the women who stayed with their
occupations and made names for them-
selves."
During the play, the characters slowly
age — Orbach goes from 35 to 91 —
and that presents a "real challenge" for
director Yolanda Fleischer of West
Bloomfield. Fleischer, who has directed
and acted at JET before, must keep
things moving at a brisk pace and not
bog down the play with the long time
span represented in the script.
"We have to keep up with the make-
up changes to show the aging and
ensure that things are flowing scenical-
ly," Fleischer pointed out. "Sherman's
humorous lines help immensely and
really connect the performers with the
audience."
Fleischer is co-chairperson of the
University of Detroit Mercy Theater
Department.
"Humorous lines" come naturally to
Sherman, 50, a native of the Chicago
area, who has a master of fine arts
degree from Brandeis University in
Waltham, Mass.
After appearing in plays and talent
shows as a song-and-dance man, he
hooked up with Chicago's famous
Second City comedy troupe, mingling
with such comedians as John Belushi of
TV's Saturday Night Live and George

Wendt of Cheers." He spent 10 years in
New York City, trying his hand at com-
edy and acting.
"Then I made a gradual evolution
from performing as a comedian to being
a playwright," he said. "I've written a
dozen plays, mostly with Jewish content
and Jewish characters because that's been
my whole life. My comedy background
allows me to use comedy extensively in
the plays. In today's world, we need as
much laughter as we can get."
Sherman's most popular piece of work
is the comedy Beau Jesi the story of a
young Jewish woman with a gentile
boyfriend who hires a Jewish actor to
play the boyfriend when her parents
come to visit. The show ran for three
years Off-Broadway.
Sherman says he no longer misses act-
ing and devotes full time to writing
plays and operating the Victory Gardens
Theater in Chicago. He also is a teacher
at Columbia College in the city. His
wife, Linnea Todd, is an actress in the
Chicago area, and the couple have two
sons.

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JET'S Door to Door runs Jan. 19-
Feb. 13 at the Aaron DeRoy
Theater, in the JCC, 6600 West
Maple Road in West Bloomfield.
Performances are 7:30 p.m.
Wednesdays-Thursdays; 8 p.m.
Saturdays and 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Sundays. There will be a 2 p.m.
matinee Wednesday, Feb. 9, in lieu
of the evening show. Tickets are
$25-$37, with discounts for sen-
iors and students; $15 "rush" tick-
ets are available two hours before
every performance. Information:
(248) 788-2900.

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a new chapter to the story of Jewish resistance.

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BILL GLADSTONE
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

y

ou may not find Dr. Neil
Rosenstein's new book listed on
national bestseller lists, but the
noted genealogist — with his tongue
halfway in his cheek — compares it to
the popular thriller The Da Vinci Code.
Both books, the noted American
genealogist and surgeon said, deal in
varying degrees with family trees reach-
ing back 30 centuries to the biblical
House of David.

But Rosenstein, a 60-year-old New
Jersey resident, notes that while Dan
Brown's novel presents a clever blend of
fact and fancy, The Lurie Legacy, pub-
lished recently by the New Jersey-based
publishing house Avotaynu, is based
entirely on accurate historical informa-
tion, with all sources carefully noted.
In Legacy ($85), Rosenstein links the
Lurie lineage — which includes such
modern luminaries as Sigmund Freud
and Martin Buber — to Rashi, the
11th-century sage, and many other
revered Jewish figures from Hillel to

