Masha Leon
By Masha Leon
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The Schmooze Family Intrigue,’Handle With Care’
Celebrate 2014 by going to see “Handle With Care” at the Westside Theatre Downstairs and relish a delicious, funny play that raises the concept of farklempt to new heights. There’s stunning, statuesque Charlotte Cohn as Hebrew spouting Ayalet whose “Safta’s” (grandmother’s) coffin has vanished in the wilds of Virginia. The hilarious provincial van driver Terrence…
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The Schmooze David Broza a Hit at Reuth 75th Celebration
It was Israeli superstar David Broza, and leger de main mentalist Kenny who helped make the December 16 American Friends of Reuth’s — “Reuth at 75” — celebration an evening to remember. During the pre-dinner mingling, the 170 festively dressed guests at The New York Palace were amazed and distracted by illusionist Kenny, whose disarming…
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The Schmooze Disney Hit-Maker Alan Menken Honored
Academy Award-winning Broadway and film composer Alan Menken, recipient of the 2013 Oscar Hammerstein Award for “Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre,” was welcomed on stage at the Hudson Theatre by Bernadette Peters singing “Some Enchanted Evening” from the Rodgers–Hammerstein musical “South Pacific.” She was the first of a roster of performers toasting Menken that included…
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The Schmooze A Newly Beardless Mandy Patinkin Sings Yiddish
An ebullient Mandy Patinkin cool in a black V-necked sweater, cargo pants and sneakers, now the beardless former acting CIA director Saul Berenson on Showtime’s hit series “Homeland,” bounded up the stage at the Center for Jewish History at the YIVO-Institute for Jewish Research December 8 tribute to Yiddish ethnomusicologist Chana (Eleanor) Mlotek who died…
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The Schmooze Theodore Bikel, Tevye Extraordinaire Celebrated at Symphony Space
The stars illuminating Symphony Space’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater at the December 2 “Miracle of Miracles” Hanukkah Gala were “Sunshine Boys” (almost 90) Theodore Bikel, (91 year young) Fyvush Finkel and (102 year sharp-as-a-tac stunner) Bel Kaufman. Honoree Bikel — who has portrayed Tevye more than 2500 times worldwide — witnessed the arrival of Hitler…
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The Schmooze Peter Schickele, Roman Rabinovich Tickle the Ivories
When I first met Israeli pianist Roman Rabinovich, winner of Israel’s 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition, at the January 22, 2009 Salon De Virtuosi concert at the Hungarian Consulate, I could not have imagined that one day he and composer Peter Schickele aka “PDQ Bach” would share the stage at Weill Recital Hall…
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The Schmooze Huckabee Wows at Israel at Zionist Organization of America Dinner
When the cantor was late to the November 24 Zionist Organization of America Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award Dinner, the more than 900 standing guests raised their voices in an a cappella “Hatikvah” and “Star Spangled Banner” that rattled the walls of the New York Grand Hyatt Ballroom. Touting ZOA president Morton Klein as one…
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The Schmooze Remembering Montreal in ‘Lies My Father Told Me’
The musical “Lies My Father Told Me,” The National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene’s most ambitious production to date, boasts an energetic talented cast of seventeen and a set by John Dinning worthy of a Broadway production. Based on the works of screenwriter/activist Ted Allen, it is set in 1920s Montreal’s Saint Urbain street. Originally written in English,…
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