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points. Actually, the play is really
mainly a comedy as Eric makes his
way through life despite personal
tragedies. It's a story of accepting life
as it is, accepting who we are and
where we came from."

Perfect Casting
Bremer, 42, of Warren, was an actor
early in his career, playing locally in
Greenfield Village shows and as a
character named "Mr. Wizard" in a
PBS television science series for five
years. He obtained a master's degree
in theater along the. way, directed col-
lege and community theater produc-
tions and met his future wife on a visit
to Greece.
He came to JET in 2000 and made
his professional directorial debut with
the theater company's production of
I'm Not Rappaport last year.
"In Rappaport, I directed my stepfa-
ther, Arthur Beer, and he did so well
that I'm bringing him back as the
father, Manny Weiss, in Brooklyn Boy,"
said Bremer-. Beer is married to
Bremer's mother, Mary Bremer, a local
actress, and teaches theater at the
University of Detroit-Mercy.
Chris Bremer says he auditioned 70
young actors before selecting John
Lepard of Williamston, Mich., to play
Eric Weiss. Lepard appeared in anoth-
er Margulies play, Sight Unseen, pro-
duced by JET in 1994. Completing a
husband-and-wife team, Bremer
chose Lepard's wife of 18 years, Jean
Lyle Lepard, to play Eric's estranged
wife, Nina.
Other cast members in the six-
scene production are Shannon Nicole
Locke of New York and Brian Thibault
of Detroit, who sang their way through
JET's last production, Side by Side by
Sondheim; Fred Buchalter of Troy and
Kelley Rossi of Detroit. "Ninety per-
cent of a director's job is casting the
right people, relying on them to bring
the characters to life said Bremer.

Intrinsically Jewish
Margulies, 51, grew up in a
Coney Island housing project
built by Donald Trump's
father. Despite a limited
income, Margulies' father, a
wallpaper salesman, often
took his children to see
Broadway plays and musicals.
Margulies earned a degree in
playwriting from State
University of New York, and, in
the early 1980s, collaborated
with famed producer Joseph
Papp for his first Off-Broadway play,
Found a Peanut.
His career really took off in 1992
when.Sight Unseen won an Obie Award
for the Best New American Play. After
writing a dozen more plays through
the 1990s, he captured.the Pulitzer
Prize for Drama in 2000 for Dinner
With Friends, a story about a seeming-
ly happy couple who re-examine their
own relationship when their best
friends decide to divorce.
Margulies had previously been
nominated for a Pulitzer for Collected
Stories, a play about a Jewish writer
who is betrayed by her young disciple.
He teaches playwriting at the Yale
University SChool of Drama.
"Brooklyn Boy is a typical Jewish
playwright's story; it's intrinsically
Jewish," said JET Artistic Director
Evelyn Orbach. "It's an emotionally
rich look at family, friends and fame."
She recalls one of JET's early pro- .
ductions, when the theater was
launched in 1988. It was a staged read-
ing of a play called Model Apartment
by an unknown but up-and-coming
playwright: Donald Margulies. ❑

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