Metropolitan Playhouse
The American Legacy

220 East Fourth Street  ~  New York, New York   10009
Administration: (212) 995 8410  ~  Tickets: (212) 995 5302
connect@metropolitanplayhouse.org

 

Photos by Joe Seibert, John D. Ryzga, Jacob J. Goldberg 

 

Jakie Rabinowitz is blessed with a voice to make him the greatest of a long line of cantors.
And as Jack Robin, a heart in love with the stage.
An artist and young man torn between two worlds--the next toast of Broadway; the next voice to God--knowing his dilemma is just what makes him great.

TALK BACKS

11/27 at 5:30pm
The Jews and The Jazz Age: How The Jazz Singer reflects New York Jewish Life in the Roaring Twenties
with Ted Merwin, Ph.D

Author of In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Popular Culture

12/03 at 5:30pm
Mammy and Musicology: Evolving Popular Music Around the Jazz Singer
with Paul Charosh on where the popular music of The Jazz Singer falls in a changing world of popular song.

12/04 at 5:30pm
Minstrels and Moving Pictures
with Kevin Byrne and Garrett Eisler on The Jazz Singer at a watershed moment of technological innovations and radical changes in popular entertainment.

12/11 at 5:30pm
Cantors and Crossover
with Mark Slobin (Professor of Music at Wesleyan University)

November - December 2011
Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat	Sun
					12 8pm Preview	13 3pm Preview
14 7:30pm PWYW		16 8pm Preview	17 8pm Preview	18 8pm Opening	19 8 pm	20 3pm
		Thanksgiving No Shows		25 8pm	26 3pm 8pm	27 3pm Talk
		30 8pm	1 8pm	2 8pm	3 3pm Talk 8pm	4 3pm Talk
		7 8pm	8 8pm	9 8pm	10 3pm 8pm	11 3pm Talk

Christine Bullen*
Andrew Clateman*
Michael Durkin*
Justin Flagg*
Charles E. Gerber*
Bob Greenberg*
Ed Moroney
Nona Pipes*
John William Rhea
John Russell
Benjamin Slater

Laura Livingston

Alex Roe

Christopher Weston

Sidney Fortner