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Re: Info. on "the Jewish Mikado"?
- From: Ethan Minovitz <CLVM21A...>
- Subject: Re: Info. on "the Jewish Mikado"?
- Date: Thu 11 May 1995 14.00 (GMT)
As I recall, quite a few years ago, a kosher Japanese(!) restaurant in
New York City -- which claimed to be the only one of its kind in the
United States -- featured regular dinner-theatre performances of the
Mikado in Yiddish. Naturally, these were with Jewish actors, and W.S.
Gilbert's deathless lines were adapted to Yiddish culture.
A short, *wild* excerpt of the performance even appeared on television --
possibly as part of a segment on George Schlatter's old NBC series Real
People.
Ethan Minovitz
clvm21a (at) prodigy(dot)com