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| Reisl Bozyk, Ben Bonus. |
LIGHT, LIVELY AND
YIDDISH [Musical/Judaism/Yiddish] B/L: A. Shulman and Wolf and
Sylvian Younin; M: Eli Rubenstein; AD: Ben Bonus; ADD. MTL: M. Gershonson, Ch.
N. Bialik, Ch. Cheffer, Mina Bern; D: Mina Bern; CH: Felix Fibich; S: Josep Ijaki;
C: Sylvia Friedlander; P: Sol Dickstein; T: Belasco Theatre; 10/27/70-1/10/71
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| Reisl Bozyk, Leon Liebgold, Lili Liliana, Ben Bonus, Mina Bern, Seymour Rexite, Miriam Kressyn. |
An all-Yiddish Broadway show, with sporadic English
narration, Light, Lively and Yiddish was
part comedy and part variety show. In the first half, Hershele (Ben Bonus), the
helpful jester of Ostropolis, gives aid to a young shtetl couple in love. In the second, the problems of assimilation
into American culture of Old World Jews are addressed.
The program was pleasing, but standard fare for such
offerings. One of the performers was the young Diane Cypkin, a fine singer-actress and Yiddish-theatre specialist, who continues to be active as a singer of nostalgia-scented songs.
