Shpiel! Shpiel! Shpiel!
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 19, 2009
Closed Apr 5, 2009

Playing at
Folksbienne Yiddish Theater

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Running Time:
2hr. 45min.
(includes 1 intermission)

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Comprised of the comic plays -- "The Pushcart Peddlers," "The Man Who Couldn't Stop Crying" and "74 Georgia Avenue" -- Shpiel! Shpiel! Shpiel! chronicles the Jewish-American experience across three generations, in a sweeping panorama spanning early 20th century immigration through mid-century assimilation to the present day. The three-time Tony winning director Gene Saks, the stage and television actor Bob Dishy and Motl Didner direct one play each while pooling their talents with the translator Moishe Rosenfeld, a cast of eight, and with musical director Zalmen Mlotek who conceives the musical inter-actes.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Folksbienne Yiddish Theater
334 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10023

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene continues its current season with
Shpiel! Shpiel! Shpiel!, at the JCC of the Upper West Side, an uneven and overlong bill of three one-acts written by veteran playwright Murray Schisgal, in which the best is saved for first.

That work, The Pushcart Peddlers, is a 30-year-old play that reaches back to the early 20th Century to tell a tale of a Jewish fruit peddler calling himself Cornelius J. Hollingsworth (played by Stuart Marshall) who gives swift lessons in New World business sense to a younger man fresh off the boat (Michael L. Harris). In an amusing take on the American dream, it's not always clear who's getting the best of whom in this somewhat[...]

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Reviewed by Andy Buck on Mar 20, 2009