Final engagement of The Tomashefskys: Music and Memories of a life in Yiddish Theater
From April 14 to 17th at the New World Center, a very special production of Yiddish musical theater will offer its final engagement. So it should not be missed!
The Tomashefskys , Music and memories of a life in Yiddish Theater, portrays the life and times of the Thomashefskys, a couple of Eastern European joung inmigrants that arrived to America in the 1880’s and that became stars of the Yiddish Theater of the late 19 century.
Hosted and conducted by the Tomashefskys grandson Michael Tilson Tomas offers a tribute to the life and legacy of his grand parents Bessie and Boris Thomashefsky through the lecture and performance of original play and songs of the Yiddish Theater era.
A stellar cast -Judy Blazer and Tony Award-winning actor Shuler Hensley, Ronit Widmann-Levy and Eugene Brancoveanu. The production, directed by Emmy Award-winning Patricia Birch.
Accompanied by a New World Symphony 30 piece orchestra. Michael Tilson Thomas serves as guide through the lives and repertoire of his grandparents. The music of this production is a combination integrating aspects of Eastern European klezmer and cantorial modes with American tones and rhythms.
The story of The Tomashefskys, talks about how important the Yiddish theater was in the life of the Jewish Eastern European immigrants in America. Theater became a place to express their life and aspirations, for Jewish immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th Century who settled on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Yiddish theatre was central to their lives.
It replaced touchstones of Eastern European life - the village marketplace, the temple, the rabbi - and provided a stage for the new ideas that were shaping the psychological, emotional, moral and educational transition to a new, American way of life.
Thanks to the close connection of MTT and his grand mother Bessie, the memories and scores where all collected and put together to preserve this legacy and document the Yiddish Culture of their generation.
The Tomashefskys, Music and Memories of a life in Yiddish Theater, will be recorded for future broadcast on PBS great performances.
I invite you to join Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony, in this celebration of Life, Music and Memories of Yiddish Culture.
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