Two Plays by Murray Schisgal: 74 Georgia Avenue & The Pushcart Peddlers
Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theatre (North Hollywood, CA)
Rated 3.1 by 16 members who went.
Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre presents a pair of poignant, funny plays about the Jewish-American experience by the Oscar-nominated co-writer of the classic film Tootsie. 74 Georgia Avenue follows a successful businessman who revisits the Brooklyn neighborhood of his youth when his marriage falters. The Pushcart Peddlers is a farce about two immigrants who sell bananas.
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- “5 out of 5 Stars” - - nohoartsdistrict.com
- "...fine performances...skillful" --LA Weekly
- “…slapstick and vaudeville at its finest” --broadwayworld.com
- “…expert direction…actors shine, shine, shine” --Grigware Talks Theatre
- "...highly entertaining coupling...audience was captivated throughout.." --Tolucan Times
- "…fabulous piece…performance is phenomenal..." --Kaleidescope Radio Magazine
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The Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre presents Murray Schisgal's 74 Georgia Avenue & The Pushcart Peddlers, two plays filled with laughter and pathos while chronicling the Jewish American experience.
Veteran playwright Murray Schisgal is a native New Yorker who burst on the scene in 1963 with the Off-Broadway hit, The Typists and The Tiger, which earned him an Outer Critics Circle Award. His Broadway debut, Luv, earned him a 1965 Tony nomination for Best Play. His other Broadway successes include The Chinese & Doctor Fish, All Over Town, Twice Around the Park and An American Millionaire. His screenplay for the classic comedy Tootsie starring Dustin Hoffman, co-written with Larry Gelbart, took home a cartload of awards and honors, including the New York Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay, and Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Screenplay.
74 Georgia Avenue and The Pushcart Peddlers, along with The Man Who Couldn't Stop Crying were recently part of Shpiel! Shpiel! Shpiel!, the well-received trilogy of Schisgal plays performed in Yiddish, English and Russian at the Drama Desk Award-winning National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene in New York, as part of its 94th consecutive season.
74 Georgia Avenue and The Pushcart Peddlers (which will be performed in English) are amusing and heartwarming plays - one is the story of a successful businessman revisiting his past, and the other is a farce about two immigrants on a race to the future. In 74 Georgia Avenue, a middle-aged Jewish man whose marriage is in trouble, seeks refuge in the once-Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood of his youth. During the visit, he discovers that his past is linked with the present tenant of his old apartment. The uproarious comedy, The Pushcart Peddlers, takes place on the gold-paved streets of the Lower East Side where a fresh off-the-boat-greenhorn is taught the ropes by an 'old hand' banana peddler. Life moves fast in America and so do both men's illusions - - for better, or is it for worse?
What do two men discussing the sale of a banana pushcart and a man returning to his old neighborhood in Brooklyn have in common? You don't have to be Jewish or from New York to understand the underlying themes, the irony, and the humor which tie these plays together.
Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theatre
Founded in 1972, the Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman has won almost every drama award imaginable, plus many special awards from the community for its work with young people, seniors and the physically impaired. The company's play choices are eclectic and offbeat.
