THE DISC JOCKEY WAS A LADY to Play Bruno Walter Auditorium

The Disc Jockey Was A Lady, a new play with music written by, and starring Dolly Ellen Friedman will be presented at the Bruno Walter Auditorium (Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts), 40 Lincoln Plaza - Enter on Amsterdam at 65th Street) at 158 West 72nd Street (bet Broadway -Columbus Ave) on Thursday, April 14th at 6:00pm. Admission is Free for this delightful, fun, warm and heart-full show that features songs of the forties from such composers as Cole Porter, Duke Ellington and Rodgers and Hart and others. The show also features musical theatre veteran actor Ross Hewitt. It is directed by Alyson Reim and staged by Broadway choreographer Sharon Halley. Phil Hall is the Musical director and arranger.

The Disc Jockey Was A Lady is a show with real stories based on life during World War II, It tells the story about life in NYC and Brooklyn during this time--when the men were away, and ladies assumed all kinds of jobs that they never imagined would be a part of their lives. Dosh Wallach, a lady disc jockey who love playing those terrific songs from the 40s to the radio audience --especially to the service men and women to remind them that--though they were away, they were not in the least forgotten. She would regale the radio audience with her stories of how the war impacted life in New York with tales about victory gardens, ration coupons, war bonds, learning to distinguish enemy planes, school air raid drills mixed with anecdotes of everyday life that would make the service folk smile and think of the loved ones waiting for them to come home. Dosh was one of the voices that reminded them of "home." She received postcards and v-mail requesting favorite songs from service men in honor of girlfriends, wives, children or parents, and she'd happily read their correspondence as well as spinning the songs they wanted to hear--all to keep the home fires burning.

Dolly Ellen Friedman has spent a lifetime in publicity, and decided to dramatize the World War II stories she remembered so vividly. She joined The Philhallmonics (a professional singing group of all women who performed regularly at Lincoln Center, and throughout the area produced by Karen Arlington and created by Phil Hall). Dolly was smitten with the theater bug and loved singing the songs of the Great American songbook.