First Look: Shalom! Shalom! Jerry Herman's Lost Classic MILK AND HONEY Launches York Theatre Co's Mufti Series
By: Julie Musbach Jan. 29, 2017
Shalom! Shalom! The York Theatre Company presents the first of three shows in the Winter 2017 Musicals in Mufti Series: the 1961 musical Milk and Honey, with book by Don Appell, and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. Performances beganJanuary 28, 2017 for 11-performances only through February 5, 2017 at the York Theatre Company at Saint Peter's (entrance on East 54th Street, just east of Lexington Avenue). Openign Night is January 29, 2017.
Directed by York's Associate Artistic Director Michael Unger, and with music direction by Jeffrey Saver, the 12-member cast features American operatic bass-baritone Mark Delavan (Tosca), Broadway's Alix Korey (Fiddler on the Roof) and Anne Runolfsson (The Phantom of the Opera) with Ari Axelrod (LES MISERABLES), Abby Goldfarb (Fiddler on the Roof), Jacob Heimer (Soul Doctor), Jessica Fontana (Cinderella), Joy Hermalyn (Candide), Joanne Lessner (Fermat's Last Tango), John Little ("Boardwalk Empire"), Marcy DeGonge Manfredi (The Phantom of the Opera), and Perry Sherman (Fun Home). Casting for the series is by Geoff Josselson.
Launching the Winter 2017 Musical in Mufti series is Milk and Honey, book by Don Appell, music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. Marking the Broadway debut of the incomparable Jerry Herman, Milk and Honey centers on the romance between two Americans in Israel-a lonely widow on tour and an unhappily married man visiting his daughter. Set against the backdrop of Israel's struggle for recognition as an independent nation, Milk and Honey is a tale of love, optimism, and second chances. With his first Broadway score, Mr. Herman showed the promise of the wealth of hummable, memorable songs he would compose in the future.
The York Theatre Company's acclaimed Musicals in Mufti series of musical theatre gems, performed in a simply-staged, book-in-hand concert format, celebrates its twenty-second historic year of shows from the past that deserve a second look. Mufti means "in street clothes, without the trappings associated with a full production."
Milk and Honey will play the following 11-performance schedule-First Week: Saturday at 2:30 p.m. & 8:00 p.m., Sunday at 2:30 & 7:00 p.m.; Second Week: Wednesday at 7:00 p.m., Thursday 2:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., Friday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
Photo Credit: Ben Strothmann
Mark Delavan, Anne Runolfsson, Alix Korey
Mark Delavan
Anne Runolfsson
Alix Korey
Jacob Heimer, Anne Runolfsson
Joanne Lessner, Marcy DeGonge Manfredi, Joy Hermalyn, Alix Korey, Ari Axelrod, John Little
Mark Delavan, Anne Runolfsson
Jessica Fontana, Perry Sherman
Ari Axelrod, Perry Sherman, Mark Delavan
Joanne Lessner, Marcy DeGonge Manfredi, Joy Hermalyn, Alix Korey, John Little
Anne Runolfsson
Anne Runolfsson, Mark Delavan
Mark Delavan, Perry Sherman, Jessica Fontana, John Little, Jacob Heimer, Ari Axelrod, Abby Goldfarb, Alix Korey, Joy Hermalyn, Joanne Lessner, Marcy DeGonge Manfredi, Anne Runolfsson
Jacob Heimer, Abby Goldfarb
Mark Delavan, Anne Runolfsson
Jacob Heimer, Joanne Lessner, Perry Sherman, Joy Hermalyn, Marcy DeGonge Manfredi, Anne Runolfsson, Mark Delavan, Ari Axelrod, Jessica Fontana, Alix Korey, Abby Goldfarb, John Little
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