[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--THE BIG BUPKIS! Playing at the New Yiddish Rep thru January 31st

[Victor Bers]

Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements

Jan. 5, 2009

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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:00:29 -0500
From: sbkr <sbkr at earthlink.net>
Subject: THE BIG BUPKIS! Playing at the New Yiddish Rep thru January 31st

Tayere Mendelyaner,

THE BIG BUPKIS!
A Complete Gentile's Guide to Yiddish Vaudeville
now playing at the New Yiddish Rep

"Laugh-out-loud funny!" Miriam Rinn, New Jersey Jewish Standard
"Funny, bewildering, engaging, and moving" Rachel Grundy, nytheatre.com
"Decidedly 21st century!" Gwen Orel, Backstage

Shane Bertram Baker tells of his journey from acolyte at St. Andrew's 
Episcopal Church in Kansas City to king of contemporary New York

Yiddish vaudeville with stops
along the way for cheap jokes, magic, ukulele music, unpleasant stories 
about Sophie Tucker, hypnotism, ventriloquism, transvestism, and a Yiddish 
bullfight poem. He ends the show by beheading a volunteer from the 
audience.

SEE! Cheap gags! Magic! Music!
SEE! Hypnotism! Ventriloquism! Transvestism!
SEE! A chicken shot out of a cannon!
SEE! A Yiddish bullfight poem!
SEE! A live onstage beheading!

In English and Yiddish with English supertitles.

Starring Shane Bertram Baker
Directed by Allen Lewis Rickman
Musical Direction by Steve Sterner
New Yiddish Rep Founder/Artistic Director David Mandelbaum

Performances Saturdays at 9, Sundays at 7
Through January 31
At the New Yiddish Rep Theater,
Workmen~Rs Circle bldg, 45 East 33rd (bet Park & Mad)
Reservations at NewYiddishRep.org
Seating is limited
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