100 Years of Yiddish Musical Theatre Comes To KPAC

Kingsborough Performing Arts Center's season of world-class Dance, Music, Theatre, and Family Shows continues with National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene's Artistic Director Zalmen Mlotek's highly entertaining "100 Years of Yiddish Musical Theatre" with special guest star Daniella Rabbani and the New Yiddish Chorale.

"We are honored to have one of the world's foremost authorities of Yiddish song with us at KPAC this season" stated Anna Becker, Kingsborough Performing Arts Center's Executive Director "Mr. Mlotek is a consummate showman and his concert takes us on a musical journey that is at once entertaining, informative, and virtuosic."

100 Years of Yiddish Musical Theatre was hailed as the "runaway hit" of the Berkeley Jewish Music Festival and was highly praised by Yiddishkayt L.A., while Ms. Rabbani's performance was deemed "utterly alive" by the New York Observer. This elegant piece celebrates the Jewish musical accent in American theatre, beginning with the origins of the Yiddish theatre in the wine cellars of Rumania and treating us to operetta arias, humorous vaudeville ballads, backstage renditions of Fiddler on the Roof, and more. Simultaneous English translations are projected on a large screen.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Zalmen Mlotek's 100 Years of Yiddish Musical Theatre
with special guest Daniella Rabbani & the New Yiddish Chorale

Sunday, December 12 @ 3 p.m. Tickets: $25

Tickets are now on sale, and available as follows:

In Person: Kingsborough Performing Arts Center, Kingsborough Community College, 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY.

Box Office Hours: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday
By Phone: (718) 368-5596

Online: www.kcckpac.org
There is ample, free parking on the campus.

Upcoming Performances: Brighton Ballet Theatre's The Nutcracker (December 18th).

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Zalmen Mlotek, an internationally recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music, Artistic Director of the nations' only Yiddish Theater - The National Yiddish Theater - Folksbiene (www.folksbiene.org) travels around the world giving concerts, lectures, "edu-tainments," and Shabbaton programs.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Kingsborough Community College Founded in 1963, Kingsborough Community College, a college of the City University of New York (CUNY), has provided half a million students with liberal arts, applied science, and career education. Our 70-acre waterfront campus is on Manhattan Beach, at the extreme southern end of Brooklyn. The college's mission is to respond to the educational, cultural, and economic needs of our students and our community.

Kingsborough Performing Arts Center brings artistically and culturally diverse, multi-disciplinary performances from masters of the form to the varied communities within and surrounding the college. We strive to create an environment where the arts are an accessible and integral part of life, and the Arts Center is a community gathering place for interaction and inspiration. We offer performances in theatre, dance, literature, and music, as well as family shows. Our schooltime shows welcome classes from local public and private schools, a majority of which serves economically-disadvantaged or special needs populations.

The 2010-2011 season reflects KPAC'S commitment to present world-class artists in music, dance, theatre, literature, and family shows in exclusive Brooklyn engagements. The coming season of classic and classical performing arts will offer performances by companies who set the standard in their field, such as Soledad Barrio's Noche Flamenca from Spain, St. Petersburg Classic Ballet Theatre from Russia, London's Tall Stories, and the upper west side's Symphony Space. Prices are a fraction of what audiences would pay elsewhere and several sneak previews of upcoming premieres will be offered free of charge.