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Subject: [NYC] Mini Trip#1--NYC play re: immigrant life
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:25:53 EST

Hi NYC,

Thought some of you might enjoy this off Broadway play at 197 East Broadway
at the Mazer Theatre called "A Stoop on Orchard Street."
It's a GOOD THING! We saw it Saturday night and it was charming. Although
it focused on Jewish life in a NYC tenement, its appeal is universal and one
can certainly imagine their ancestors crammed into these quarters with similar
issues arising.

The characterizations were wonderful: a loved one detained at Ellis Island,
an abandoning father frustrated by low level employment, Grandma and uncle
living with the married daughter's family, the neighborhood yenta, child-messiah
who carried the hopes of the tenement to break the poverty mold and succeed,
all set against a backdrop of prejudice against newcomers.

Since I just learned that my Daniel O'Connell, the tailor, lived at 25
Orchard Street in 1866, I had to walk do a walk by before the show.

It was a musical and high spirited. I think the last show is this Saturday,
January 10th. Oh...these served free Kosher pickles at intermission!

For anyone interested, here's the URL below.

Enjoy,
Barb

http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:I_yWPxUHzs0J:www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/
stoop.htm+%22A+Stoop+on+Orchard+Street%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

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