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Snap, Sizzle, Pop!

Steve March-Torme appears in music-
and memories-filled concert at
Gottlieb Family Festival of the Arts.

Elizabeth Applebaum
I Special to the Jewish News

Mel Torme and actor/host of the $64,000
Question Hal March. Both men, he says,
were terrific fathers.
s a little kid in New York, Steve
Steve was 21/2 when his mother, actress
March-Torme pretty much
Candy Toxton, and his biological father,
knew he wouldn't grow up to be
Mel Torme, were divorced. Mel Torme
Mickey Mantle ("I'd never be that big"),
lived on the West Coast while Toxton and
but he was confident he could be the next
Steve settled in New York Torme traveled
Tony Kubek, the famed
a lot and made numerous
Yankees shortstop.
appearances on TV and in
Instead, he became
concert, which meant "he
a singer/raconteur who
didn't really have a lot of
travels the world mak-
free time to hang out with
ing audiences swoon
me; March-Torme says.
with his smooth style,
"But I'm not bitter about
a man who charms
it. He was there if I needed
him7
everyone he meets with
his modesty and humor,
When he was younger,
a performer the London
March-Torme loved the
Jazz News describes as
music of the Beatles and
"a class act:'
the Doobie Brothers. But
Steve March To rme
And how did a little
then he started listening
boy determined to make
closely to his father's works
it in baseball grow up to be an entertainer?
(in addition to being an actor and singer,
That is the $64,000 question.
Torme wrote more than 250 songs), and "I
Steve March-Torme will appear in
began to appreciate even more how musi-
Snap, Sizzle, Pop! at 8 p.m. Saturday,
cal he was:'
Sept. 6, at the Berman Center for the
March-Torme loves the way his father
Performing Arts as the headliner for the
was able to weave into his tunes themes
Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan that are both beautiful and intricate and
Detroit's Gottlieb Family Festival of
likely aren't even truly noticed by anyone
the Arts. The concert will feature jazz
but a serious jazz aficionado.
standards, original tunes and romantic
In 1956, Candy Toxton married Hal
favorites, along with stories from March-
March, whom March-Torme described
Torme's life.
as "a great dad. I got lucky with him7
"This is going to be a spectacular night," March, who appeared on TV shows
said Harold Gottlieb, founder (with his
including Gidget, The Monkees and The
wife, Sarah) of the JCC Gottlieb Family
Lucy Show, taught Steve how to play
Festival of the Arts. "What could be bet-
football and always held him accountable
ter than a concert that is both nostalgic
and provided a stable family life, March-
and contemporary, filled with exceptional
Torme says.
music, and terrifically entertaining?"
March also encouraged his children to
If the performer's last name sounds
be whoever they wanted in life. "He told
familiar, it's because Steve March-Torme
me, 'There's nothing you can't do,'" March-
is the son of two Hollywood greats: singer
Torme says. "If I wanted to be a garbage

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he JCC Gottlieb Family Festival of the Arts will be held September
2-7. For additional info, visit www.jccdet.org .

Sept. 2: Guest Speaker
Rabbi Bob Alper: "Thanks. I
Needed That. And Other Stories of
the Spirit"
Sept. 3: Film
My Father and the Man in Black
Sept. 4: Guest Speaker
Professor Kenneth Stein: "The
Carter Book Controversy"

Sept. 6: Concert
Steve March-Torme: Snap, Sizzle,

Pop!

Sept. 7: Film

The Tempest

Sept. 11: Art
Jessica Kovan: "Daily Gratitudes:
Art, Sport and Cupcakes"

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