Cast, Creative Team Set for MY MOTHER, MY SISTER & ME at Morris Museum's Bickford Theatre

The Morris Museum is proud to announce the complete casting for its spring play, My Mother, My Sister & Me. This world premiere stars longtime Broadway favorite Loni Ackerman (Sylvia Fenster). The cast also includes Laura Ekstrand (Arlene Abrams), Stephanie Windland (Robin Abrams), Gary Littman (Danny Abrams), Scott McGowan (Heshy Mankowitz), Ethan Berman (Marco Lopez), and introducing Paris Mercurio as Holly Abrams. My Mother, My Sister & Me was written by former Bronx native and current New Jersey resident, Sherri Heller and will be directed by Eric Hafen, Producing Artistic Director of the Bickford Theatre. The play will run twelve times at the Bickford Theatre from April 7 through April 24, 2016.

My Mother, My Sister & Me is the story of an indestructible working-class Jewish family in the Bronx that is valiantly surviving the ever changing Sixties Cultural Revolution. The play opens in a two-bedroom-fourth-floor-walk-up just East of the Grand Concourse and fifteen blocks from the Mecca of all hope - Yankee Stadium. We are in the home of the Abrams Family, a front-of-the-building apartment with a clear view of 163rd Street and the cultural chaos that is engulfing New York and the rest of world.

It is Monday morning, July 21, 1969, six hours after Neil Armstrong has walked on the moon, fourteen days before Woodstock opens in Bethel, three weeks before Mick Jagger is shot on the set of Ned Kelly and Jim Morrison is arrested and dragged off of a plane in Phoenix, while 250,000 people demonstrate in the Nation's Capital against the Vietnam War and Russia defiantly performs its first public nuclear test in Eastern Kazakh.

The Abrams Family is preparing for what looks to be a normal day. Grandma Sylvia is cooking, Holly is dreaming of her first kiss with the gorgeous Marco Lopez, Robin is plotting her escape to Woodstock Nation, Arlene, their Mom, is rehearsing how she is going to announce her huge promotion at a Corporation that now needs her in New Jersey while unbeknownst to the lot, Danny, Arlene's estranged husband, is contemplating a capital crime so egregious he could take down part of the Bronx with the rest of them.

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