Saturday, December 20, 2014

Spaghetti Dinner December 30th

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GREAT SMALL WORKS SPAGHETTI DINNERS
together with
GOH Productions and
THE ADRIENNE COOPER
DREAMING IN YIDDISH AWARD
present

Year-End Concert and Spaghetti Dinner                                    General Admission:  $25
Tuesday, December 30, 2014, 7:30PM                                         Tickets: tinyurl.com/acdiy-tix
Judson Memorial Church                                                                                          or 800-838-3006                 
55 Washington Square South, NYC
Advance ticket purchase will guarantee a seat.
Limited tickets available at the door.  No one turned away for lack of funds.

Witness the Adrienne Cooper Dreaming In Yiddish Award Ceremony honoring author, playwright and linguist Michael Wex.
Hear the rock stars of New Yiddish music.*
Experience the second work-in-progress showing of Great Small Works' new show:
                  Muntergang and Other Cheerful Downfalls.
See projections created by Tine Kindermann, Stephen Kaplin and Jenny Romaine.
Remember Forgetting Finding, stilt dance by Alicia Gerstein and Michaela Lind.
Musical slide lecture by Eric Drooker about how the changing urban landscape has shaped his
                  political vision.

Bring your appetites and dancing shoes!

 *Featured Singers                                                                                        
Sarah Gordon                                     
Eleanor Reissa                                   
Daniel Kahn                                    
Judith Berkson                                  
Psoy Korolenko                                    
Jackie Mendelson                                           
Fredda Mendelson                   
Peter Sokolow                                    
 
*Band Members 
Frank London
Michael Winograd
Pam Fleming
Matt Darriau
Jessie Lurie
Patrick Farrell
Kenneth Bentley
Aaron Alexander
Lauren Brody
Marilyn Lerner                 

Great Small Works thanks the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Jim Henson Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, the Scherman Foundation, Mental Insight Foundation, Doctorow Foundation, and the Puppet Slam Network for their generous support.






Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Work-in-Progress Performance of New Great Small Works Show

MUNTERGANG and OTHER CHEERFUL DOWNFALLS
A work-in-progress performance of Great Small Works' newest project!

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11th, 7:00PM
YIVO Institute
15 West 16th Street, NYC

Admission:  General $15/YIVO Members $12
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Box Office:  (212) 868-4444  









An Artist and Scholar Collaboration
Deep in the YIVO archives are the original puppets used by Modicut, Yosl Cutler and Zuni Maud's Yiddish puppet theater troupe.  The first of its kind in the United States, Modicut was known for satirical with that spanned the breadth of Jewish life.  GREAT SMALL WORKS, together with DR. EDWARD PORTNOY, bring the pair to life--and to a new audience--by portraying the rich Yiddish cultural context from which Modicut sprung, and re-staging original Modicut scripts. 

The program will consist of scenes from Muntergang and Other Cheerful Downfalls, talks by Dr. Portnoy and Great Small Works company members John Bell and Jenny Romaine, a newly-unearthed song written by Yosl Cutler, and a Toy Theater adaptation of a Yiddish story for the edification of 1930's youth titled "Santa Klos Hot Gekhalisht" ("The Day Santa Klaus Fainted").