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ANNUAL GALA APRIL 6, 2011

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Honoring Michael Tilson Thomas and David and Sylvia Steiner
APRIL 6, 2011
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center

THE THOMASHEFSKYS:
Music and Memories of a Life in Yiddish Theater
WITH THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas Director: Patricia Birch

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Join us as we honor celebrated conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and David and Sylvia Steiner at a reception prior to his production at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center.

Reception will take place from 5:30 - 7pm.
Show Begins at 7:30pm.

With archival film clips, theatrical staging, a quartet of performers and the New York Philharmonic, conductor and host Michael Tilson Thomas tells the poignant and funny real-life story of Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, who – besides being superstars of the Yiddish Theater on the Lower East Side of 100 years ago – were his beloved grandparents.

"Hysterically funny... an evening of pure pleasure."
(Los Angeles Times)

"This one really raises the roof." (Financial Times)

The story of Boris & Bessie Thomashefsky and the life of new immigrants coming to the New World and the social transformations they faced as Jewish-Americans. Michael Tilson Thomas shares the stage with a 30-piece orchestra and four principal performers who bring the repertoire and words of Bessie and Boris to life. All the material is authentic - researched and reconstructed by The Thomashefsky Project over the past ten years. The Project was founded in July 1998 in order to rescue the story of the Thomashefskys and early American Yiddish theatre’s contribution to American cultural life. Through its work, many disintegrating scores have been located and preserved to recreate as true a version of the original works as is possible.

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The National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene is a 501 (c) 3 registered non-profit organization. Tickets and contributions are tax-deductible to the extant allowable by law.