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a<br />
<strong>musical</strong> fable<br />
of<br />
broadway<br />
December 1, 2007 at 8:00 PM<br />
December 2, 2007 at 3:00 PM<br />
December 2, 2007 at 7:00 PM
C’mon! C’mon!! Daddy needs a new pair o’ shoes!<br />
Dr. Blumofe sez mine don’t fit!!!
The <strong>Jewish</strong> Women’s <strong>Repertory</strong> <strong>Company</strong><br />
Presents:<br />
Music and Lyrics by<br />
Frank Loesser<br />
A Musical Fable of Broadway<br />
Based on a Story by and Characters of Damon Runyon<br />
Book by<br />
Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows<br />
Directed by<br />
Rachelle Freedman & Margy Horowitz<br />
Produced by<br />
Margy Horowitz & Shani Rotkovitz<br />
“Guys & Dolls” is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International<br />
(MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI, 421 West 54th Street,<br />
New York, NY 10019. Tel: (212) 541-4684 Fax: (212) 397-4684 www.MTIShows.com
Cast of Characters<br />
(in order of appearance)<br />
NICELY-NICELY JOHNSON ...............................Batsheva Frankel<br />
BENNY SOUTHSTREET ........................................ Nina Kleinman<br />
RUSTY CHARLIE ................................................ Michele Poltorak<br />
SARAH BROWN .................................................... Karen Holender<br />
ARVIDE ABERNATHY ..............................................Juli Shanblatt<br />
AGATHA (member of the Mission Band) ........... Janice Tanenbaum<br />
MARTHA (member of the Mission Band) ................Sarah Crighton<br />
CARINA (member of the Mission Band) ................ Raizy Shanblatt<br />
HARRY THE HORSE .................................................. Kelila Green<br />
LIEUTENANT BRANNIGAN............................Daphne Orenshein<br />
OFFICER FRIENDLY ........................................Chana Alisa Simon<br />
NATHAN DETROIT .........................................................Yael Ross<br />
ANGIE THE OX ......................................................... Caryn Malkus<br />
MISS ADELAIDE ............................................................. Amy Ritz<br />
SKY MASTERSON ...................................................Sabina Levine<br />
HOT BOX M.C. ...........................................................Sally Ben-Tal<br />
MIMI ........................................................................... Caryn Malkus<br />
GENERAL MATILDA B. CARTWRIGHT ............... Barbara Gindi<br />
BIG JULE ................................................................. Meira Kligman<br />
HOT BOX WAITER .....................................................Chava Sigala<br />
COCOANUT GROVE WAITER .................................Sally Ben-Tal
Chorus of Gamblers<br />
Sally Ben-Tal<br />
Stefanie Etshalom<br />
Kelila Green<br />
Ronnie Kaye<br />
Meira Kligman<br />
Caryn Malkus<br />
Michele Poltorak<br />
Chava Sigala<br />
Hot Box Dolls<br />
Rebecca Asher<br />
Sarah Crighton<br />
Barbara Gindi<br />
Caryn Malkus<br />
Sheila Meyer<br />
Heather Rothman<br />
Arleen Tanenbaum<br />
Janice Tanenbaum<br />
The Gamblers Dance Ensemble<br />
Rebecca Asher<br />
Sally Ben-Tal<br />
Sarah Crighton<br />
Stefanie Etshalom<br />
Barbara Gindi<br />
Kelila Green<br />
Ronnie Kaye<br />
Nina Kleinman<br />
Meira Kligman<br />
Caryn Malkus<br />
Michele Poltorak<br />
Yael Ross<br />
Heather Rothman<br />
Chava Sigala<br />
Chana Alisa Simon
Overture<br />
Scene 1: Broadway<br />
TIME: the late 1940’s PLACE: Broadway!<br />
“Runyonland” .................................................................... Ensemble<br />
“Fugue for Tinhorns” ....................Nicely-Nicely, Benny Southstreet<br />
& Rusty Charlie<br />
“Follow the Fold” ........................Sarah Brown & the Mission Band<br />
“The Oldest Established” ................. Nathan Detroit, Nicely-Nicely,<br />
Benny Southstreet, & the Gamblers<br />
Scene 2: The Save-A-Soul Mission<br />
“I’ll Know”...................................... Sarah Brown & Sky Masterson<br />
Scene 3: A Telephone Call<br />
Scene 4: The Hot Box<br />
“A Bushel & A Peck” ..................... Miss Adelaide & Hot Box Dolls<br />
“Adelaide’s Lament” .................................................. Miss Adelaide<br />
Scene 5: Broadway<br />
“Guys & Dolls” .............................Nicely-Nicely, Benny Southstreet<br />
& Rusty Charlie<br />
Scene 6: The Save-A-Soul Mission<br />
Scene 7: Broadway<br />
Scene 8: Hollywood<br />
Scene 9: The Hollywood Sign<br />
“If I Were A Bell” .........................................................Sarah Brown<br />
Scene 9: Outside the Mission<br />
Act 1<br />
“My Time Of Day” ....................................................Sky Masterson<br />
“I’ve Never Been In Love Before” ............................Sky Masterson<br />
& Sarah Brown
There will be a 15-minute intermission between Acts.<br />
Entr’acte<br />
Scene 1: The Hot Box<br />
“Lullaby Of Broadway” ................. Miss Adelaide & Hot Box Dolls<br />
“Adelaide’s Second Lament” ..................................... Miss Adelaide<br />
Scene 2: A Street Off-Broadway<br />
“More I Cannot Wish You” ...................................Arvide Abernathy<br />
Scene 3: The Sewer<br />
“The Gamblers Dance” .................. The Gamblers Dance Ensemble<br />
“Luck Be A Lady” ..........................Sky Masterson & The Gamblers<br />
Scene 4: A Street Off-Broadway<br />
“Sue Me” .......................................Miss Adelaide & Nathan Detroit<br />
Scene 5: The Save-A-Soul Mission<br />
“Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat” ........................ Nicely-Nicely<br />
& <strong>Company</strong><br />
Scene 6: A Street Off-Broadway<br />
“Adelaide Meets Sarah” ................... Miss Adelaide & Sarah Brown<br />
“Marry the Man Today” ................... Miss Adelaide & Sarah Brown<br />
Scene 7: Broadway<br />
Act 2<br />
“Guys & Dolls” (reprise) ...........................................Full Ensemble
Credits<br />
Piano Accompaniment ............................................ Margy Horowitz<br />
Drum Accompaniment ..............................................Maria Martinez<br />
Stage Manager ........................................................Shani Rotkovitz<br />
Choreography .........................Margy Horowitz, Fraida Liba Levine,<br />
Sheila Meyer, Caryn Malkus, Chaya Shagalow<br />
Technical Director ....................................................Shani Rotkovitz<br />
Costumes ................................................................. Margy Horowitz<br />
Set Design ...................................................................Danielle Forer<br />
Props ...........................................................................Danielle Forer<br />
Lighting Design .......................................................Shani Rotkovitz<br />
Makeup ...............................................................Theodora Bergman<br />
Box Office Manager ................................................ Margy Horowitz<br />
House Manager .............................................................. Joni Krevoy<br />
Poster Art .......................................................... Hannah Leah Honig<br />
Publicity ........................................................................ Kelila Green<br />
Playbill Cover ................................................... Hannah Leah Honig<br />
Playbill Layout ....................................................... Jeremy Horowitz<br />
Advertising .............................................................. Margy Horowitz<br />
Video .................................................................................... Famedia
Thank You<br />
To our families and friends for their love and support.<br />
To Rabbi Kupfer of Maimonides Academy for the use of his school<br />
for rehearsals.<br />
To Rabbi Elias of Mogen David Congregation for the use of his shul<br />
for rehearsals.<br />
To Dr. Jerry Friedman and Rabbi Avi Greene of Shalhevet School for the<br />
use of their school for rehearsals.<br />
To Rabbi Weil of Beth Jacob for the use of his shul for auditions and rehearsals.<br />
To Sheila Meyer of A Time For Dance for the use of her studio for rehearsals.<br />
To Josh Butchart, Annie Terry and our tech crew at Beverly Hills High School<br />
for their time and technical assistance.<br />
To Fraida Liba Levine for choreographing “A Bushel & A Peck.”<br />
To Sheila Meyer and Caryn Malkus for choreographing “Lullaby Of Broadway.”<br />
To Chaya Shagalow for choreographing “Runyonland.”<br />
To Sara Tanz for her help with choreography.<br />
To Raizy Shanblatt for joining our Mission at the last minute.<br />
To Sandy & Noah Blumofe, Barbara & Alan Gindi, Dana & Edward Slatkin and<br />
Bonnie & Alan Silverstein for sponsoring our costumes, props, sets<br />
and lighting, respectively.<br />
To Michael Tanenbaum for lending us his portable keyboard for another<br />
six months.<br />
To Debbie Fox, Sylvia Barocas, and Juliya Golant at Aleinu Family Services for<br />
their support and help with publicity.<br />
To Barry Poltorak for teaching us dolls how to play dice like guys.<br />
To our ticket sellers, ushers, and refreshment sellers, for their hard work.<br />
To everyone who has helped us out using their various talents.<br />
We appreciate it more than we can say!
Donors<br />
Sandy & Noah Blumofe<br />
Barbara & Alan Gindi<br />
Bonnie & Alan Silverstein<br />
Dana & Edward Slatkin<br />
Patrons<br />
Lisa Einbinder<br />
Benefactors<br />
Rena Berkowitz<br />
Cecile Gromis<br />
Naomi Manela<br />
Putter Pence<br />
Rachel Ross<br />
Angel Schneider<br />
Sponsors<br />
Audrey Adler<br />
Deborah Cohen<br />
Rosalyn Cooper<br />
Beth Eiselman<br />
Margaret Feitelberg<br />
Miriam Fishman<br />
Rochelle Krich<br />
Toby Krich<br />
Jill Linder<br />
Nettie Lerner<br />
Robyn Lewis<br />
Roberta Maimes<br />
Ronne Penn<br />
Tova Well<br />
*We thank all of our donors, benefactors, patrons and sponsors, including those<br />
whose sponsorships came in after this playbill had already gone to print.*<br />
Best Wishes to<br />
The <strong>Jewish</strong> Women’s<br />
<strong>Repertory</strong> <strong>Company</strong><br />
Young Israel of Century City
The Cast and Crew<br />
Sabina Levine (Sky Masterson)<br />
Sabina is delighted to be a part of the JWRC for the second time.<br />
Since she was a little girl, Sabina has had a passion for singing,<br />
dancing, and acting. She has performed in many stage productions,<br />
including Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey II), Steel Magnolias,<br />
Kindertransport, and last year’s Once Upon a Mattress (Jester).<br />
She has also appeared in national commercials on television and<br />
radio. Sabina would like to thank her neighbors for not filing a claim<br />
of disturbing the peace while she was rehearsing, and her husband and daughters<br />
for their love and support.<br />
Karen Holender (Sarah Brown)<br />
Karen hails from Manchester, England and is so happy to be back<br />
for a third year performing with the amazing JWRC. With experience<br />
on New York and UK stages, Karen started her career at a young<br />
age performing for both music and theater audiences. Her credits<br />
include playing Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Reno in Anything<br />
Goes, and performing West Side Story at the Edinburgh Fringe<br />
festival. She is now a busy mom to two gorgeous little guys, Yehuda<br />
and Yonatan. Karen would like to thank her big guy, Darrin, for his continued love<br />
and support and all the ladies of the JWRC for a fabulous experience.<br />
Yael Ross (Nathan Detroit)<br />
Yael is very excited to return to the stage in her first performance<br />
with the JWRC. Although this is her first performance with this<br />
talented group of women, she is no stranger to the all-female cast<br />
and her fate to play a man. In fact, Yael has only played one female<br />
role since she began performing in the 9th grade, and that lapse in<br />
judgement occurred during college when men were forced to play<br />
men and women forced to play women! She is happy to return to<br />
the natural order channeling her well-rehearsed study of three older brothers into<br />
the role of Nathan Detroit. Yael would like to thank the YULA stage, and particularly<br />
Peter Faber for seeing her deep voice just waiting to escape. She would also<br />
like to thank her family, friends and the JWRC for their support and the opportunity<br />
to act once again.<br />
Amy Ritz (Miss Adelaide)<br />
Amy is so happy to be singing and dancing for a second year with<br />
the JWRC. Amy has been performing in <strong>musical</strong>s since high school,<br />
but playing Adelaide in Guys & Dolls is by far her favorite role. A big<br />
thank you to her husband, Jonny, and gorgeous kids, Adam and<br />
Zoe, for their love and support. I love you a bushel and a peck!!!<br />
Also, thank you to Margy and the entire cast and crew for this wonderful<br />
experience.
Batsheva Frankel (Nicely-Nicely Johnson)<br />
As a drama major at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Batsheva (then<br />
known as Susan Hirschman) performed in Semelwiess, Moonchildren,<br />
and Commencement before focusing on directing. After<br />
graduating, she worked in the film industry for eight years, and in<br />
theatre as the artistic director of the Third Rail Theatre <strong>Company</strong><br />
for two seasons. Batsheva then gave it all up for a more lucrative<br />
and glamorous career in <strong>Jewish</strong> education! In addition to teaching<br />
Tanach and English at various schools, she directed The Wizard of Oz and<br />
The Little Princess at Valley Torah High School. Batsheva is grateful to the JWRC<br />
for giving her a chance to perform for the first time in 20 years, and a chance for<br />
women spanning the whole spectrum of the <strong>Jewish</strong> community to come together,<br />
meet and make friends.<br />
Juli Shanblatt (Arvide Abernathy)<br />
Juli is very excited to be in this production and feels fortunate to<br />
have worked with such a talented and diverse cast and crew. Juli’s<br />
career in “the industry” began with an appearance on Romper<br />
Room at age 6. Since then she also performed in her 6th grade<br />
Spanish class production of Don Enrique Va A Los Estados Unidos<br />
(Don Enrique) and played in the pit orchestra (flute) for Guys &<br />
Dolls and A Chorus Line at MIT. Juli also appears before a live audience<br />
daily at Bais Yaakov School for Girls as a physics teacher. After annoying<br />
her beautiful family for many years with her constant singing of Broadway show<br />
tunes, they (and Chani Weiss) finally forced her to audition for this show. She<br />
thanks Neal, Raizy, Esti, and Mimi for all their support.<br />
Nina Kleinman (Benny Southstreet)<br />
This is Nina’s second year performing with the JWRC and she has<br />
thoroughly enjoyed this experience. Although Nina has performed<br />
in many all-women’s productions before, this is her debut as a man!<br />
Nina would like to thank Margy, Shani, and Rachelle for this wonderfully<br />
challenging opportunity. Thank you for coming and enjoy the<br />
show!<br />
Michele Poltorak (Rusty Charlie)<br />
Michele is excited to be rejoining the JWRC in this year’s performance<br />
of Guys & Dolls. Michele has been involved in several<br />
productions, including last year’s performance of Once Upon a<br />
Mattress and Hebrew University’s presentation of Joseph and the<br />
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. When not performing, Michele is<br />
the mother of two beautiful girls, Hannah and Emily, and is also a<br />
full-time employment litigation attorney, representing both private<br />
and public employers in their labor disputes. Michele thanks her husband Barry<br />
for his continued love and support (and showing all us dolls how to be “dice” guys)<br />
and all the women of the JWRC for their friendship.
Kelila Green (Harry The Horse)<br />
Kelila is honored to be working with such beautiful and talented<br />
women in the JWRC for the second year in a row. She would like<br />
to thank those women who have been there (mothers, friends, coworkers,<br />
fellow cast members) with an open ear, an open heart, and<br />
open arms. Kelila is proud to be continuing the tradition of honoring<br />
the name Harry (Sir Harry in Once Upon a Mattress and Harry the<br />
Horse in Guys & Dolls) and cannot wait to find out what Margy has<br />
in store for next year’s show.<br />
Daphne Orenshein (Lieut. Brannigan)<br />
<strong>Jewish</strong>, obsessive-compulsive, gleefully married, algebra-teaching,<br />
ranting mother of four seeks perfect fool-proof brisket recipe.<br />
Please e-mail recipe to dorenshein@hillelhebrew.org. Thank you.<br />
P.S. Thank you Jonathan for letting me leave the house to rehearse<br />
on many evenings. Thank you Margy for giving me the opportunity<br />
to develop my dry sense of humor and for being a rockin’ director,<br />
producer, and disciplinarian(!). This was certainly a blast!<br />
Meira Kligman (Big Jule / Gambler)<br />
A native New Yorker, hopeless romantic, and honorary Chicagoan<br />
with lots of relatives from the Windy City, Meira is thrilled to be<br />
playing “Big Jule from Chicago.” At age five Meira was spotted in<br />
the audience of Annie by a producer who offered her an audition for<br />
the role of Molly. Meira’s father declined, but Meira persevered and<br />
took her passion for performing out on her family, forcing them to sit<br />
through monthly plays and <strong>musical</strong>s that Meira directed and starred<br />
in. A big thank-you to Margy, the JWRC and a wonderful cast for giving her this<br />
opportunity to feel the magic again! Thanks to all of Meira’s friends; she wouldn’t<br />
be on this stage without their support and encouragement. She dedicates her<br />
performance to the memory of her grandparents, Mort and Rose Einbinder.<br />
Barbara Gindi (General Matilda B. Cartwright / Hot Box Doll)<br />
Barbara is very excited to be taking part in the JWRC performance<br />
of Guys & Dolls. After seeing Once Upon a Mattress last year, she<br />
couldn’t wait to try out for the next production. A mother of five,<br />
Barbara wishes to thank her family for pushing her to do this and<br />
for supporting her, practicing lines and dance steps and letting her<br />
leave the house during the hardest hours of the evening to attend<br />
practice. She wishes to send her love to her husband Alan who had<br />
to take over for her and who encouraged her to do this. Barbara is honored to be<br />
working with such a talented and warm cast of women and sends a big thank you<br />
to Margy, Rachelle and Shani for bringing JWRC to the community.
Caryn Malkus (Angie The Ox / Mimi)<br />
Caryn has been dancing since the age of three. Throughout her life<br />
she has performed in many shows, and her favorites include West<br />
Side Story, Pippin, Gypsy, and Chicago. At Tufts University she<br />
sang with an all-female a cappella group. Most recently she was<br />
Ann-Margret in the European tours of the <strong>musical</strong> Elvis the Legend.<br />
She is excited to be a part of this production, after taking a hiatus<br />
from performing to focus on her teaching career, her choreography,<br />
and her family. She would like to thank her parents for putting her in dance classes<br />
all those years ago, her husband Mitch for his love and support, and her twoyear-old<br />
twin boys, Eitan and Coby, for always singing along whenever she was<br />
practicing!<br />
Janice Tanenbaum (Agatha / Hot Box Doll)<br />
Janice is excited to be part of this production of Guys & Dolls. She<br />
has been involved in all aspects of theater from a young age. At<br />
Beverly Hills High School she sang in the Minnesingers and was<br />
involved in both the <strong>musical</strong> productions and the Shakespeare festival.<br />
Janice has also sung and danced in numerous family <strong>musical</strong><br />
productions. She continued her theatrical talents at the Claremont<br />
Colleges where she produced and directed such plays as Lost in<br />
Yonkers, Isn’t it Romantic and Crossing Delancey. Janice has an MBA and works<br />
as a Major Gifts Officer for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.<br />
Sarah Crighton (Martha / Hot Box Doll)<br />
Sarah is a preschool teacher at the Garden School. She appeared<br />
in last year’s JWRC production of Once Upon a Mattress and has<br />
participated in Kol Neshama, a performing arts camp for girls. She<br />
is happy to be performing once again with such a wonderful group<br />
of women.<br />
Chana Alisa Simon (Officer Friendly / Gambler)<br />
After many small time gigs at VTHS and Camp Sternberg, Chana<br />
makes her grand début on the JWRC stage. She is currently studying<br />
for a BSc in Microbiology and would like to thank Margy and<br />
the cast for a really good excuse to procrastinate from doing her<br />
schoolwork. She really enjoyed working on this show. As Officer<br />
Friendly she’d like to remind everyone that no gambling is allowed<br />
in the audience and to drink responsibly. Enjoy the show!<br />
Sally Ben-Tal (Hot Box M.C. / Gambler / Cocoanut Grove Waiter)<br />
Sally is delighted to be a part of this year’s JWRC production of<br />
Guys and Dolls. She has appeared in several plays, including<br />
Center of the Star by Yehuda Hyman and A Long Bridge Over Deep<br />
Waters by James Still, and the films Nonfat and The Window. She<br />
has also co-written and directed several plays for her husband’s<br />
religious school classes. She wants to thank her family and friends<br />
for their love and support.
Chava Sigala (Liver Lips Louie / Hot Box Waiter)<br />
Chava is a senior at Valley Torah High School and has been acting<br />
in Kol Neshama since she was eleven. She has also appeared in<br />
several school plays.<br />
Stefanie Etshalom (Society Max)<br />
Stefanie is thrilled to be a part of the JWRC and to be performing<br />
alongside such a wonderful and talented group of women. “Morah<br />
Stefanie” performs during the week at Yeshivat Yavneh and does a<br />
weekly Shabbat “show” at Young Israel of Century City for toddlers,<br />
their mothers, and the men who can hear her through the walls of<br />
the 9:30 Beit Midrash Minyan. While these performances and those<br />
in her car and kitchen are fun (but not for her five children who tell<br />
her to save it for the show), it is a dream come true for a frum woman to sing on<br />
stage in a professional production where the audience members are over 5 years<br />
old and potty-trained. Thank you to everyone in the JWRC for this amazing opportunity,<br />
for their unbelievable dedication, and for having patience with her as she<br />
whipped her two left feet into shape. Thank you to our supporters for making this<br />
show possible!<br />
Ronnie Kaye (Melvin the Rat)<br />
Formerly a math teacher at Hillel Hebrew Academy, Ronnie is now<br />
a psychotherapist in private practice, a published author, and a firstyear<br />
doctoral candidate in psychoanalysis. A veteran of the JWRC’s<br />
first two productions (The Mikado and Once Upon A Mattress), she<br />
is once again happily singing bass as one of the gamblers in the<br />
chorus of Guys & Dolls.<br />
Rebecca Asher (Hot Box Doll)<br />
Rebecca Asher recently moved to Los Angeles after graduating<br />
from Stern College for Women in New York City. She grew up in Atlanta<br />
where she began taking dance classes at age five. She enjoys<br />
all types of dance, especially ballet. Rebecca is currently working at<br />
Maimonides Academy.
Sheila Meyer (Hot Box Doll)<br />
At the age of five Sheila’s mother enrolled her in ballet class, and<br />
she hasn’t stopped dancing since! After graduating from college<br />
Sheila took her childhood dream and made it a reality: she started<br />
her very own dance studio in her hometown of Atlanta, so she could<br />
pass on her love to others. Since moving to LA just three years ago,<br />
Sheila founded A Time For Dance, a dance and fitness studio that<br />
caters to the needs of the Orthodox <strong>Jewish</strong> community. Her days<br />
are filled teaching classes and spending time with her husband and two children.<br />
Heather Rothman (Hot Box Doll)<br />
Heather grew up in Los Angeles, has been dancing since the age<br />
of five, and is excited to have this opportunity to perform in Guys &<br />
Dolls with such a wonderful cast of dedicated and talented women.<br />
Her other passion is books, and she currently hosts her own cable<br />
TV show entitled “BookTalk with Heather Joy.” Heather would like<br />
to thank the cast and directors for sharing their generous spirit and<br />
esprit-de-corps.<br />
Arleen Tanenbaum (Hot Box Doll)<br />
Arleen’s most important role has been as mother of six and grandmother<br />
of four. Her voice could be heard exhorting her kids from<br />
alley to street and roof to basement. With such lung power she<br />
starred in her family’s well-known, original B’nai Mitzvah and wedding<br />
productions, hospital parodies, her daughter Janice’s MBA<br />
graduation, organizational events, and, most recently, the Beth<br />
Jacob tribute dinner. She is thrilled to be performing with Janice, her<br />
daughter and fellow doll, in this production.<br />
Margy Horowitz (Co-Director / Musical Director)<br />
For the JWRC’s third production, Margy decided to prove that she<br />
could produce and direct a show while simultaneously experiencing<br />
horrible morning (ahem – that’s “all-day”) sickness. Luckily our<br />
fantastic cast and crew helped make sure that this show would be<br />
as great as the last two. Thanks to Rachelle, Shani, Danielle, all<br />
of our choreographers, and a fabulous cast for a job well done. It<br />
was terrific working with all of you! And of course Margy must, as<br />
always, thank her amazing husband Jeremy and 3-year-old daughter Julia for their<br />
continued love and support.<br />
Rachelle Friedman (Co-Director)<br />
Rachelle Freedman received her B.A. in Theatre from Georgia State<br />
University and has taught acting to children across the country. She<br />
has also written and directed plays for various <strong>Jewish</strong> schools and<br />
camps, including several in the Los Angeles area. After playing King<br />
Septimus in last year’s JWRC production of Once Upon a Mattress,<br />
Rachelle made the transition from a very silent role (literally) to one<br />
just a bit more vocal. She’d like to thank Margy, Shani, and the most<br />
fabulous group of dolls ever, as well as her guy Yacov and her best girl, Hannah<br />
Honey.
Shani Rotkovitz (Producer / Stage Manager)<br />
Shani still remembers when her friend Margy called her up a few<br />
years ago and said “Hey, I have an idea…and I need help.” So<br />
with three degrees and many years of production under her belt,<br />
she said “Sure, why not?” And the Margy/Shani dynamic was born.<br />
Happy to be back producing and stage managing once again for<br />
a fantastic JWRC show, Shani is super excited to be working with<br />
Margy, Rachelle, Danielle and the fantastic cast of Guys & Dolls.<br />
She would especially like to thank the students of BHHS for all their help on the<br />
tech crew. And of course her parents for sending her to art school. Twice. And her<br />
friends and family (and cute neglected cat Ahavi) for giving her up for six months<br />
out of the year.<br />
Congratulations<br />
Daphne!<br />
We will be watching and<br />
cheering your performance.<br />
But as your friends<br />
we were already your biggest fans!<br />
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