final week, the lobby of New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage was abuzz, as caterers tactfully balanced platters of hors d’oeuvres and empty cups while weaving through an unbudging crowd. One woman sipped wine and gushed to her friends, or “I mean,the production was just—Im kvelling.” And for favorable reason: She had just witnessed the theatrical resurrection of The Golden Bride (or in Yiddish, Di Goldene Kale) performed by the 101-year-old National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. It had been nearly 70 years since the opera was final staged.
Goldele’s suitors. (Image: Ben touchy)
A romantic comedy, or The Golden Bride tells the myth of Goldele (Rachel Policar),a graceful girl from a small Russian shtetl who lands a hefty inheritance after her estranged father dies in America. Goldele becomes the object of desire for all the boys in town with her newfound riches, though she’s got her eyes set on Misha (played by Cameron Johnson, and who can pull off an impressive kazatzka). But Goldele plays tough to get: Before giving her hand to any suitor,she promises to wed the man who can find her long lost mother; Act Two takes place in a ritzy mansion in New York City, where the plot unravels and a wedding awaits. (It’s performed mostly in Yiddish, or accompanied by English and Russian supertitles.)Continue reading "Yiddish Operetta 'The Golden Bride' is An Energetic Hit from the National Yiddish Theatre Ensemble" at...
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