[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements-- Prospective edition of Joseph Rumshinsky's 1923 Yiddish-American operetta "Di goldene kale"

[Victor Bers]

Mendele Personal Notices and Announcements

June 23, 2014

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From: Michael Ochs <mochsed at earthlink.net
Date: June 3, 2014
Rumshinsky's *Di goldene kale* performed in New York

I am in the throes of preparing a full-score edition of Joseph Rumshinsky's
1923 Yiddish-American operetta _Di goldene kale_ (The Golden Bride; further
information at
https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/musa/forthcoming/di-goldene-kale). A
concert performance of the work, in Yiddish with English and Russian
supertitles, was held in New York on Tuesday, May 27, by the longest
functioning Yiddish theater company in the world, the 99-year-old National
Yiddish Theater - Folksbiene. By all accounts the evening was a resounding
success. The hall was filled to capacity---some 220 seats---and the
audience was genuinely (dare I say wildly?) enthusiastic, laughing at all
the right places and hanging around afterwards not wanting to leave. The
cast of 12 sang beautifully under Zalmen Mlotek's musical direction, and
director Motl Didner expertly introduced enough bits of acting to bring out
the work's comic and poignant moments. (And I had a walk-on---my stage
debut at age 77!) There have already been several serious inquiries from
colleges for repeat performances, and other possible presentations are
contemplated. My dream is to see a fully staged production that would spark
a revival of interest in the Yiddish-American musical theater, which played
an important role in the development of the American musical (as Mendele
readers know, Irving Berlin, Yip Harburg, and the Gershwins, among many
other Broadway and Tin Pan Alley personalities, regularly attended Yiddish
theater shows).

A staged performance with orchestra, sets, costumes, lighting, etc., etc.,
would require some hefty financial support. I'm hoping to turn to
foundations and individual donors that might be interested in underwriting
such a venture, so any help in the form of ideas and, especially, personal
connections along those lines would be much appreciated.
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