The 92nd Street Y's Makor has announced its September line-up.
On Sunday, September 10th at 3 PM, Vickie Phillips will perform "A Musical Journey: Songs by Brel, Weill and Aznavour." "Back by popular demand, this bittersweet tour de force is a one-woman show featuring music by Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill and Charles Aznavour chronicling Vickie Phillips' travels through European cities scarred by war and the Holocaust. Writer-director Bob Ost has crafted an intimate, powerful tapestry of music and reminiscence. Phillips's show features musical accompaniment by Gerry Dieffenbach and William Schimmel," according to Makor notes on the show, which is $20.
The variety show
Briefs will be presented on Sunday, September 10th at 7 PM in the Makor Cafe. The show is "an evening of off-beat music and sketches by Broadway pros and burgeoning local artists,
Briefs is a revealing look at life's unmentionables through song, dance and short plays. Singer/actor Jennifer Boutell and Lauren Hunt host." The show is $20.
Marc Salem will bring
Mind Games Extra to Makor on Sunday, September 10th at 7 PM in the Makor Screening Room. "Marc Salem returns to Makor after the successful summer run of his show
Mind Games Extra. Hailed by critics and audiences around the world, Salem has forged a career as today's foremost mentalist and expert in non-verbal communication - a man who can tell what you're thinking; detect where you're from and reset your watch without touching it." The show is $25. He will also perform
Mind Games Extra on Sunday, September 17th at 7 PM in the Makor Screening Room.
There will be a reading and discussion of the play
The Quarrel on Monday, September 11th at 7 PM. "Rabbi Joseph Telushkin will introduce a staged reading of the play (co-written with David Brandes) based on his film
The Quarrel. Two old friends and Holocaust survivors run into each other in 1948 and resume an unresolved argument. One man is now a pious rabbi with a yeshiva; the other a secular writer who has lost faith...A discussion with Rabbi Telushkin and actors Reuven Russell and Sam Guncler follows the reading." The reading is $20.
There will be a screening of the 2005 documentary
Show Business on Tuesday, September 12th at 7:30 PM. "
Show Business is a remarkable behind-the-scenes look at four 2004 Broadway musicals -
Wicked, Avenue Q, Taboo and
Caroline, or Change. Directed by Broadway producer Dori Berinstein, the film gives the audience amazing access: See
Wicked star
Idina Menzel's face being painted green for the first time and hear Jeanine Tesori, the composer of
Caroline, Or Change wonder aloud if she should just steal something from
Avenue Q. Features a post-screening Q&A with director Dori Berinstein." The event is $15.
"
Jamie McGonnigal Presents" will take place on Sunday, September 17th at 7 PM in the Makor Cafe. "The musical theater impresario is back with another lineup of veteran Broadway vocalists, performing songs by the best and brightest of today's musical theater composers." The show is $20.
There will be a reading and discussion of the play
Out of Ignorance on Monday, September 25th at 7 PM in the Makor Lecture Hall. "Jewish theater group BIMA-NY stages a reading of Peter Lang
man's
Out of Ignorance, which chronicles a relationship between an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor and a young man on the fringes of a neo-Nazi group. This gripping, provocative work is based on a true story. Langman is the author of the boo
k Jewish Issues in Multiculturalism and his plays and musicals have been produced across the country." The reading is $10.
A concert staging of
Little by Little will be presented as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival on Monday, September 25th at 8 PM in the Makor Cafe. The musical features music by Brad Ross, a book by Ellen Greenfield and Annette Jolles and lyrics by Greenfield and Hal Hackady. "Boy + Girl + Girl = Trouble. Three childhood pals end up in a tricky love triangle that will change their friendship - and their lives - forever. This one-night-only concert performance of the new musical, originally seen in New York at The York Theatre, comes to Makor as part of the New York Musical Theater Festival." It is $15.
"Makor, a program of the 92nd Street Y, offers New Yorkers in their 20s and 30s opportunities for exploration and connection within an environment committed to Jewish pluralism, cultural innovation and intellectual excellence...Events take place in the club-like atmosphere of a beautifully refurbished double brownstone at 35 West 67th street, one of New York's landmark blocks."
For more information, visit
www.92Y.org.
