NATIONAL YIDDISH THEATRE & MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS PRESENT OPERETTA FOR 1ST TIME IN 70 YEARS!

Di Goldene Kaleh                                

WHEN: Wednesday, Aug. 5, 7 PM
WHERE: Nicholas Music Center, Mason Gross Performing Arts Center, Douglass Campus, New Brunswick  DIRECTIONS
TICKETS: $15, $10 for Rutgers alumni and employees and seniors, $5 for students with valid ID
Information: visit masongross.rutgers.edu or call 848-932-7511

Ninety-two years after its premiere at Kessler’s Second Avenue Theatre in New York City, the Yiddish operetta Di Goldene Kaleh (The Golden Bride) returns to the stage in New Brunswick. The comedy, written by Joseph Rumshinsky, will be performed in Yiddish with English and Russian supertitles and with a full orchestra—for the first time in 70 years.

The production—presented by New York City’s National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene and Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts and cosponsored by Rutgers’ Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life—will be part of the 2015 Mason Gross Summer Series. 

A company of singers from Folksbiene, conducted by Artistic Director Zalmen Mlotek with the  Mason Gross Muzikers orchestra, will perform the operetta, which, like many works composed during the heyday of American Yiddish theater of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was aimed at immigrants from Eastern Europe. 

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, now celebrating our 100th Season!

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