"J. EDGAR KLEZMER: Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files"
Thursday, June 4 til Sunday, June 7
Nightly at 7PM, & Sunday 2PM matinee
HERE Arts Center, Dorothy B. Williams [DOT] Theatre
145 Sixth Ave (enter on Dominick St, one block below Spring)
Tickets $25 /$20: student & senior
By phone: 212-352-3101, at HERE Box office two hours prior to shows, or via link below:
here.org/shows/detail/1641/#
Each "J. EDGAR KLEZMER" performance will also offer post-show audience talk-back with our cast in the DOT.
Our post-performance reception on Saturday night, June 6 starts at 8:30pm in the charming Lounge at HERE. Please feel free to join us & bring a guest if you like too for that evening's festivity, whether or not you've made plans to attend the 7PM show.
For more info on "J. EDGAR KLEZMER: Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files":
http://klezbos.com/JEK
J. EDGAR KLEZMER is original musical documentary theater, researched and written by grandchild and
bandleader Eve Sicular (Isle of Klezbos / Metropolitan Klezmer). From klezmer to Kodaly to jazz, baroque to boogie
woogie and gospel to jazz, from Hazel Scott’s cancelled TV show to derelict theories of homosexuality, J. EDGAR KLEZMER’s exploration of surveillance files leads in even more directions than the Department of Justice could have foreseen. An earlier sold-out preview of the show at Dixon Place was named a Time Out New York “Critic’s Pick.” The stellar five-woman cast features actress Yelena Shmulenson (Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man; “Boardwalk Empire”; "Orange is the New Black"), lead vocalist Melissa Fogarty (New York City Opera, Seattle Baroque, Isle of Klezbos/Metropolitan Klezmer), and Eve Sicular with her bandmates, under veteran director Gwenyth Reitz.
J. EDGAR KLEZMER is based on the true story of the late Dr. Adele Sicular, grandmother of drummer,
lyricist/composer and bandleader Eve Sicular, who in the 1940's chaired the Citizens Committee of the Upper West Side. Using documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act filing, plus myriad other archival discoveries, and combined with family gossip of the Blacklist and onward, this piece investigates the dealings of the FBI and Adele – pianist / psychiatrist / activist – during the McCarthy Era and beyond, through live theater, multi-media projections, and live music.