Hip, Hot and Heymish at Ft. Lauderdale's Parker Playhouse

ELEANOR REISSA, MULTI-GIFTED STAR OF THE YIDDISH AND AMERICAN STAGE, SET TO STAR IN HER OFF-BROADWAY HIT-- HIP, HOT AND HEYMISH, MARCH 1-5 AT PARKER PLAYHOUSE 

FT. LAUDERDALE---Coming direct from an eight-week sold out run at Off-Broadway's John Houseman Theatre, ELEANOR REISSA, among the Yiddish and American theatre's most accomplished divas, will open a limited one-week run in her one woman show, HIP, HOT AND HEYMISH, Wednesday, March 1, at 2 P.M. through Sunday, March 5, at the Parker Playhouse, 707 N.E. 8^th Street.

Joined by her acclaimed Broadway/Klezmer Band, the multi-talented director, playwright, choreographer, actor and singer will be recalled for her local appearances as star of THOSE WERE THE DAYS for which she earned a Tony nomination as director when the show originally opened at New York/>/>'s Edison  Theater. In HIP, HOT AND HEYMISH, Reissa will be revisiting her early years in Brooklyn and New York/>/>'s Second Avenue Theatre singing her extensive repertoire of Yiddish American songs popular to all who grew up in the first half of the century.

Having most recently directed Nobel Prize winner John Galsworthy's "The Skin Game," Reiss had earlier directed Tony Award winner Frances Sternhagen and Richard Easton in J.M. Barrie's "Echoes of War," Phyllis Newman's "Nothing Like A Dame," at the Marquis Theatre, "Cowgirls" at the Minetta Lane which she also choreographed, "Songs of Paradise" at the New York Shakespeare Festival and was Assistant Director to Howard Davies for "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof," starring Kathleen Turner and Charles Durning. 

Presented by Lawrence S. Toppall, president, Mazel Musicals, Inc., evening performances are Wednesday-Saturday, at 8 P.M., matinees Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday, 2 P.M. Regular tickets at $36, groups $31 including $1 theatre restoration fee, are available at the AutoNation Box Office or Ticketmaster. To charge by phone, (954) 462-0222; Groups (305) 919-3731 or toll free 1-(866) 252-5278. Tickets are also available at the Broward/> Center/>/> Box Office,

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