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A ROMANTIC MUSICAL COMEDY SPOTLIGHTING THE CONFLICTS AND AFFECTIONS OF JEWISH IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA AND THEIR AMERICAN BORN CHILDREN.

 

 

 

Based on a story by Abraham Cahan
 
Book and Lyrics by Pamela Berger
Music by Hankus Netsky
Additional music by:
Joanne Baker & Pamela Berger
 
 
Director: Avi Hoffman
Producer/General Manager: Gabriel Szjanert
Artistic Director: Pamela Berger
 
Music Director: Mark York

Choreographer: Oren Korenblum

Costume Designer: Quinn Burgess

Set/Projection Design: Qingan Zhang

Lighting Designer: Josh Martinez-Davis
Production Stage Manager/Sound Design: Leslie Huynh
Assistant Stage Manager/Props: Laila Gerstmann
Wardrobe Supervisor/Dresser: Emerson Wells
 
 
 
Cast:
Avi Hoffman as Asriel
Yochai Greenfeld as Shaya
Mia Mclain as Flora
Mary Feinsinger as Mrs. Birnbaum/Ensemble
 
 
 
Ensemble:
Daniel Barrett
Elmore James
Oren Korenblum
Daniella Rabbani
 
 

In the tradition of the rollicking old-fashioned American musical comedy, here comes “Imported Bridegroom: The Musical.” Set in Olde New York circa 1900, “Imported Bridegroom: The Musical” recounts the travails of an acquisitive landlord-father who comes to fear that his greedy practices will keep him out of heaven. He is so overcome with anxiety at his other-worldly fate that he feels compelled to return to the Old Country where, at his father’s gravesite, he pleads: “Papa, speak to the Almighty for me and ask Him please to wipe away just a few of my sins.” There, in his ancestral shtetl, he is informed of a shortcut to eternal residence in the better neighborhood of Heaven. He would need to sponsor a brilliant scholar of the Talmud. Finding what seems the perfect candidate, he brings his pious young discovery back to the lower East Side for his ambitious Americanized daughter to marry. After one look at the intense greenhorn scholar, she is appalled. He has nothing in common with the sort of respectable uptown Jewish doctor she has been planning to capture. A musical comedy ensues.