program history
2009/2010 Season
Evening 2: You Call This Love?
Evening 3: Stories From The Fringe: Women Rabbis, Revealed!
2008/2009 Season
EVENING 1: HEY, GORGEOUS!
January 11, 12, 13 2010
Produced by Ronda Spinak
Associate Producers Deena Novak & Abby Freeman
Directed by Kayla Gordon
Program
Welcome Ronda Spinak, Producing Artistic Director
Blessing – The Beauty of Sarah
Written by Rabbi Lynne Kern, Board member
Performed by Maia Danziger
Art Talk
Ruth Weisberg, Jan 11th
Shelly Gazin Jan 12th and 13th
Singing Benny Carter
Written and Performed by Deborah Pearl
Lyrics by Deborah Pearl, Music by Benny Carter
Monologue from Phaedra in Delirium
Written by Susan Yankowitz
Performed by Maia Danziger
Ugly Beautiful -WORLD PREMIER
by Ronda Spinak
I Never Heard of Violet – A Memory Piece, The Bronx, NY
Written by Leah Komfeld Friedman
Performed by Caroline Aaron
A Shayna Meydele – WORLD PREMIER
Written and Performed by Monica Piper
Below The Waist
Written by Cesi Davidson
Performed by Caroline Aaron & Maia Danziger
JBI - WORLD PREMIER
By Ronda Spinak
Intermission
A Discussion with the Artists
EVENING 2: YOU CALL THIS LOVE?
MARCH 22, 23, 24 2010
Produced by Ronda Spinak
Associate Producers Deena Novak & Abby Freeman
Directed by Deborah LaVine
Program
Welcome Ronda Spinak, Producing Artistic Director
Blessing – Hands
Written and performed by Sarah Alonim Barash
Directed by Andrea Wagner
Art Talk
Performance and Fine Artist Doni Silver Simons
Grandparents & Parents
On Shabbat She Dances in the Candle
Written by Marge Percy
Performed by Patty Cornell
Papa, Can You Hear Me?
Written by Marilyn and Alan Bergman and Michel LeGrand
Performed by Ilene Graff
Loves and Lovers
I’m in Love with Chekov
Written and performed by Carol Schlanger
Chapel of Love
Written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector
Performed by Ilene Graff
House of Breath
Written by Marge Percy
Performed by Patty Cornell
Dear Metropolitan Diary
Written by Lynne Himelstein
Performed by Ilene Graff
Children
A Mother’s Prayer
Written by Carole Bayer Sager and David Foster
Performed by Ilene Graff
Fissshhhh
Written by Jennifer Maisel
Performed by Patty Cornell, Robert Trebor, Brynn Chamblee, Kate Rylie
The Holy One
God, My Lover
Created by Ronda Spinak
From the Doc Film, On The Fringe, Courtesy of SixThirteen Productions
Our Loves and Ourselves
Six Pints Haagen Dazs
Written and Performed by Monica Piper
Commissioned by Jewish Women’s Theatre – WORLD PREMIERE
Jewish Women Love
Created by Ronda Spinak, Rabbi Lynne Kern and Lucas Lee Graham
Produced by SixThirteen Productions; Commissioned by Jewish Women’s Theatre
Intermission
Q&A with Artists
Share Your Voice, Make Your Mark
EVENING 3: STORIES FROM THE FRINGE: WOMEN RABBIS, REVEALED!
MAY 3, 4, 5 2010
Written by Rabbi Lynne A. Kern & Ronda Spinak
Directed by Eve Brandstein
Associate Producers Deena Novak & Abby Freeman
Song of Welcome Cindy Paley
Welcome Ronda Spinak, JWT’s Producing Artistic Director
A Peek Inside the Project Rabbi Lynne A. Kern & Ronda Spinak
Stories From the Fringe: Women Rabbis, Revealed!
The parts of eighteen women rabbis are played by:
Abby Freeman, Bari Hochwald, and Kate Zentall
All Male Roles played by: Robert Trebor
One: Who Was the First?
Two: The Calling—Why a Rabbi?
Three: God
Four: Obstacles
Five: Being Counted
Six: I Enjoy Being a Girl, Woman.
Seven: Marrying the Rabbi
Eight: Motherhood
Nine: In The Service Of
Ten: Holy Moments
Eleven: Radical Rabbi
Twelve: Rabbi as Social Activist
L’ Dor V’ Dor: From Generation to Generation
Closing Remarks Ronda Spinak
Closing Song Cindy Paley
Intermission
Q & A with the Audience
DEBUT PARTY - October 2008
Program
Musical Summons – Joy Krauthammer
Sukkot Blessing – Rabbi Miriyam Glazer
Our Mission & Program – Ellen & Ronda
At-Homes Salon Theatre Sampler
Rahel
Written and read by Susan Merson
Ale Shvester (We Are All Sisters)
Sung by Cindy Paley
Redemption Song
Written and read by Carol Schlanger
Leningrad 1942 and Retired
Written and read by Alla Rubin
Hine Ma Tov
Cindy Paley and Joy Krauthammer
Jewish Roots
Written by Ellen Sandler
Cast: Valerie Landsburg, Susan Grace, Annika Marks
Closing Remarks – Ronda & Ellen
Closing Blessing – Rabbi Lynne Kern
Hallelu
Cindy Paley and Joy Krauthammer
EVENING 1: PASS THE SALT
FEB 23, 24, 25 2009
Produced by Ronda Spinak
Directed by Ellen Sandler
Program
Musical Summons – Michael Nault
Blessing - Rabbi Lynne Kern or Rabbi Miriyam Glazer
Welcome - Ronda
Introduction - Ellen
A Poem
A Bit of Heaven in Pastrami on Rye
by Ronda Spinak
Read by:
A Play
Smashing Idols
Written by Suzanne Bressler
Directed by Andrea Wagner
Cast:
A Song
Yontiff Pesach
Sung by Arva Rose
Pianist Michael Nault
A Literary Adaptation
The Bialy Eaters
Adapted and Directed by Ellen Sandler
From the book by Mimi Sheraton
Music created and performed by Michael Nault
Cast: Anita Barone, Phil Abrams, Lawrence Pressman, Arva Rose
Dialogue Coach, Mark Glinski
INTERMISSION
A Discussion with the Artists
Blessing - Rabbi Lynne Kern or Rabbi Miriyam Glazer
EVENING 2: SAY YES
MARCH 23, 24, 25 2009
Produced by Ronda Spinak
Directed by Ellen Sandler
Program
Blessing - Rabbi Lynne Kern
Welcome - Ronda Spinak
Introduction - Ellen Sandler
Independence Day
Written and Performed by Vicki Juditz
P.I. Tchaikovsky Did Not Die of Cholera in 1893
Written and Read by Alla Rubin
Frankie Olin, Chick Singer
Written and Performed by Debbie Pearl
Directed by Ellen Sandler
Squirrel
Performed by Betsy Salkind
Oy to the World
Written by Michele Gendelman
Directed by Ellen Sandler
Intermission
A Discussion with the Artists
EVENING 3: GENERATIONS
MAY 4, 5, 6 2009
Produced by Ronda Spinak
Program
Welcome - Ronda Spinak, Producing Artistic Director
Blessing - Rabbi Miriyam Glazer, Board Member
Generational Commentary – Rabbi Lynne Kern, Board Member
About Grandmothers
Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen Performed by Arva Rose
Sugar Spoon
Written by Ronda Spinak
Performed by Shira Fox
Ellis Island
Written by Marlene Adler Marks
Performed by Arva Rose
About Mothers
Mama, A Rainbow Performed by Ilene Graff
Dreaming in Daylight
Written and Performed by Susan Merson, Board Member
My Mother’s Refrigerator
Written by Marlene Adler Marks
Performed by Ilene Graff
On the Same Wavelength
Written and Performed by Barbara Nell Beery
Directed by Andrea Wagner, Board Member
About Children
Distant Melody Performed by Shira Fox
Kitchen as Destination
Written by Ronda Spinak
Performed by Shira Fox
Seen and Not Seen
Written by Jennifer Maisel
Directed by Ellen Sandler
Performed by Annika Marks, Cameron Von Hoy, Kate Zentall
Redemption Song
Written and Performed by Carol Schlanger
The Whole Mischpocha
Ode to Joy
Written and Performed by Arlene Schindler
Family Performed by Shira Fox, Ilene Graff, Arva Rose
Intermission
A Discussion with the Artists
