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Rutka (musical)
''Rutka'' is an indie rock musical with a book by Neena Beber and music and lyrics by Jocelyn Mackenzie and Jeremy Lloyd Styles. It is based on the diary of Rutka Laskier. Premise In 1943, 14-year-old Rutka Laskier, living in the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Będzin, Poland, writes in her diary about typical teenage concerns. Development This musical is based on ''Rutka’s Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust'', the diary by Laskier over the course of three months of 1943 while living in the Jewish ghetto in Będzin. The diary remained hidden until 2006. The original book was by Sarah Gancher but later was credited to Neena Beber. Music and lyrics are by Jocelyn Mackenzie and Jeremy Lloyd Styles of Pearl and the Beard. The musical style is indie rock. Production The musical had two workshops, including a concert performance in January 2023 at Lincoln Center's New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The musical had its world premiere in a pre-Broadway tryou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neena Beber
Neena Beber is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and television producer. Early life and education Beber was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Beber has a bachelor's degree from Harvard and a Master of Fine Arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Career Beber started out writing for television, including on ''Clarissa Explains It All'', and switched to writing for the theater. She also has produced for television, including on '' The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel''. Theater productions Her comedy ''Hard Feelings'' was performed at the Women's Project Theater in 2000. Her play ''Jump/Cut'' was performed in 2006 at the Julia Miles Theater in New York. She wrote the book for the musical ''Rutka'', which premiered at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park in October 2024. Publication Her short (10-minute) play ''Misreadings'' was included in '' Best American Short Plays, 1996–7''. As of 2016 nearly a dozen of her plays had been included in comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bizjournals
American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ACBJ publishes ''The Business Journals'', which contains local business news for 44 markets in the United States with each market's edition named for that market, and also publishes ''Hemmings Motor News'' and ''Inside Lacrosse''. The company is owned by Advance Publications and receives revenue from display advertising and classified advertising in its weekly newspaper and online advertising on its website and from a subscription business model. The bizjournals.com website, using the overarching online title ''The Business Journal'', contains local business news from various cities in the United States, along with an archive that contains more than 5 million business news articles published since 1996. it receives over 3.6 million readers each week. History American City Business Journals, Inc. was founded in 1982 by Mike K. Russell with the launch of the ''Kansa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musicals About Jews And Judaism
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called, simply, musicals. Although music has been a part of dramatic presentations since ancient times, modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century, with many structural elements established by the light opera works of Jacques Offenbach in France, Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain and the works of Harrigan and Hart in America. These were followed by Edwardian musical comed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
