Don't miss: J. EDGAR KLEZMER... with several cast members from Isle of Klezbos.
This Thursday, June 4 - The JCC in Manhattan, 8PM!
"J.
Edgar Klezmer: Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files" premiered to a
sold-out house at Dixon Place in November 2008, becoming a Time Out New
York Critics Pick. The show is original musical & multimedia
theater adventure with a fabulously talented cast of six exploring
declassified documents & way beyond, investigating the life and
Cold War time capsule of Dr. Adele Sicular, grandmother of Metropolitan
Klezmer & Isle of Klezbos drummer/bandleader Eve Sicular. Through
archival finds, oral history and family gossip, we follow various true
stories... the dealings of government agents and Eve’s
pianist/psychiatrist/Upper West Side activist grandma. From klezmer to
Kodaly to jazz, baroque to boogie woogie to gospel, from Hazel Scott's
cancelled TV show to derelict theories of homosexuality, opening
surveillance files leads in even more directions than the Department of
Justice could have foreseen.
Tickets $15. JCC members, $20. Non-Members
334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St, NYC
Information & reservations: 646-505-5708 (Event #EAYJEK00S9)
***ticket buying NOTE: ticket ordering online via the JCC website may not be working.
For phone sales: 646-505-5708.
J. EDGAR KLEZMER Tickets/info, JCC site!
http://jccinmanhattan.org/category.aspx?catid=1022#19656
J. EDGAR KLEZMER page, band site!
http://metropolitanklezmer.com
Featuring:
MELISSA FOGARTY - lead vocals / investigator
YELENA SHMULENSON - vocals / investigator / Dr. Silverberg
DEBRA KREISBERG - clarinet, sax / denizen citizen
REUT REGEV - trombone, flugabone / citizen denizen
SHOKO NAGAI - piano
EVE SICULAR - drums, vocals / researcher / grandchild
This performance is the show's fully-staged debut:
Directed by ISABEL MILENSKI
Lighting Design by CARIDAD RIVERA
Projection Design by JENNIFER GRIESBACH
Book. Music & Lyrics by EVE SICULAR
(band/cast photographer: Angela Jimenez)
Our
wishes for swift and complete healing are with Pam Fleming - trumpeter
extraordinaire - who will not be performing due to her recent serious
injury. We are fortunate to have the wonderful Reut Regev for this show.
&
special thanks to Adam Clayton Powell III for permission to perform a
composition by his mother, the late, great jazz pianist Hazel Scott.
On the Upper West Side... one night only!