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Friday, Dec. 17, 1971
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Shows, Disks Under the Menora
By GEORGE FRIEDMAN
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
Copyright 1971, JTA
Two Israeli shows opened on
Broadway in November.
“bh Hassid Hsya” ("Once
There Was A Hassid”), Which
had a long Israeli run, is at the
Edison as “Only Fools Are Sad,”
presented under the patronage
of Go Ida Meir. The production
raises both spirits and questions.
The songs and chants are
evocative, most of the sketches
LENOX THEATRE —I
Sean Connery
in
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FOREVER”
LENOX THEATRE-II
Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch
in
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BLOODY SUNDAY”
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are effective, and the six-mem
ber cast is attractive and talen
ted. But the staging is too
orderly for a hassidic celebra
tion, with the cast forming
tableaus before singing and
there is no dancing. The mid
dle-aged-arid-over audience
cheered the show heartily, how
ever, and there is certainly
much to applaud.
“To Live Another Summer,
To Pass Another Winter" (at
the Helen Hayes) is a bouncy
revue that's unique in that it
was designed for New York
and previewed in Israel. It hails
the resourcefulness, tragedy and
humor of Jewry through the
ages. Some of the songs sound
alike, but there are enough in
vigorating numbers to keep
even a Syrian’s toes tapping.
Hayim Hefer’s jokes have a
special topical snap, as in “We
have to listen to the news —
we keep making it; you don’t
like it, switch to Cairo TV —
watch ‘Mission: Impossible’ ”
and “We are a small state that
survives despite our enemies—
and our friends.”
Further downtown, Ben
Bonus, the Ziegfeld of Second
Avenue, has launched a Yiddish
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• • •
“Silent No More,” (Star) the
first recorded collection of Sov
iet Jewry underground songs,
contains 11 smuggled-out tunes
lustily sung by Theodore Bikel
and deftly arranged and con
ducted by Issachar Miron. Pro
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emigres.
The songs are dramatic,
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the opening “Zol Shoyn Kumen
Di Ge’Ule (“Let Redemption
Come”) through the closing
“Am Yisroel Chai” — not the
familiar chant of the same name
but a stirring march worthy of
comparison with “Zog Nit
Keynmol,” “Hatikva” and “Yer-
ushalayim Shel Zahav.” Also in
cluded are surreptitiously taped
remarks by Soviet Jews on
Hbbraica (They don’t let us
live. They closed our syna
gogues”), oommunality (“All
Jews have relatives”) and Israel
(“Next year in Jerusalem, or
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