National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene's LIES MY FATHER TOLD ME Opens 11/21

The National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene's American premiere of a new musical based on the 1975 Academy-Award-nominated film Lies My Father Told Me adapted from the works of Ted Allan opens Thursday, November 21, at 7:30pm at the Nagelberg Theater, Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue..

Lies My Father Told Me is one of the largest productions of the National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene 99-year history and performed in English.

This coming-of-age musical has a cast of 17 and an orchestra of 7.

Musical Adaptation and direction by National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene's Executive Director Bryna Wasserman with music, lyrics & orchestrations by Elan Kunin, musical direction and orchestra conducted by Michael Larsen, music supervision by Zalmen Mlotek and choreography by Merete Muenter, Lies My Father Told Me follows three generations of a Montreal immigrant family during the final great wave of North American immigration in the 1920s. Lies My Father Told Me recounts Ted Allan's childhood memories of the people and events that would shape his life.

Featured in Lies My Father Told Me are Chuck Karel, Jonathan Raviv, Russell Arden Koplin, Alex Dreier, Joe Paparella, Renee Bang Allen, Leisa Mather, Jonathan Hadley, Gordon Stanley and Ashley Brooke. They are backed up by a chorus of six, Chris Karl, Eva Amesse, Tina Mancini, Max Nussbaum, David Rosenberg, Siria Rutstein and Jeremy Burch.

Chuck Karel, taking on the role originated three years ago by Theodore Bikel in the award-winning Segal Center in Montreal, is a Broadway musical veteran who was featured in the original Hello Dolly with Carol Channing and Ginger Rogers, Milk and Honey with Robert Weede, Golden Rainbow with Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Dear World with Angela Lansbury and Zorba, in which he understudied the great Anthony Quinn. His baritone has been heard on the stages of The Metropolitan Opera, the late New York City Opera and several major operatic venues throughout Europe and America.

Evening performances are Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30pm, Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays 6:00pm. Matinees are Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at 2:00pm. There are no performances Mondays, Tuesdays or Fridays.

Tickets are $60 Orchestra, $50 Balcony. Tickets can be purchased at (646) 312-5073 or www.nationalyiddishtheatre.org. Lies My Father Told Me runs through December 15.

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