When the performer Tovah Feldshuh was introduced in the all-star line-up known as the Nightlife Awards at Town Hall Monday night, the performer acclaimed for her role as Golda Meir crossed herself Catholic style, just to let the packed house know she could go either way. Joining such performers as Tommy Tune, Karen Akers, Freddie Cole, Marilyn Maye (wearing Bob Mackie who introduced her), Euan Morton, Christine Ebersole (just off her run at the Café Carlysle), in this spectacular event M.C.'d by the hilarious Judy Gold. An added bonus this year was the tribute to filmmaker Robert Altman, and his classic “Nashville.” Keith Carradine sang “I'm Easy” a song he wrote for the film. But it was Tovah Feldshuh as I have never seen her, doing standup that stuck out for me. In a red silk shirtwaist and red boa she did a spot-on Sophie Tucker singing “I Don't Wanna Get Thin.” The annual Nightlife Awards, the brainchild of Scott Siegal and his muse, Barbara Siegal, --simply the most entertaining, fun night on or off Broadway--is not to be missed.
But Tovah Feldshuh did not stop there. The next evening on
Holocaust Remembrance Day at the UN, at a staged reading of her new project,
“Irena's Vow” to open on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater on March 29, Tovah
Feldshuh became a Polish Catholic girl whose tale is as dramatic and fraught as
any story of this horrific era. Based on a true story of sacrifice and bravery,
she plays Irena Gut Opdyke, who by wit and moxie hides 12 Jews in the home of a
Nazi commando. I don't know which performance had more balls.
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Posted by: KERRSTEFANIE | October 10, 2010 at 10:32 PM