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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The last date listed for Murray Schisgal's 74 Georgia Avenue & The Pushcart Peddlers was Saturday August 22, 2009 / 8:00pm. (view all dates)
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12 Member Reviews
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Morgan St. James
Member since 2008
2 Reviews
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This was a unique mix of two one act plays. The Pushcart Peddlars was like an extended vaudeville piece, and quite funny. In 74 Georgia Avenue, we were taken to an in-depth look at two very different men suffering in their own ways. They were able to draw strength from each other. Each, had a deep desire to go back to their youth where life was less complicated.
The story in the latter was so compelling, it could have easily been lengthened to a two act play.
The acting was excellent. The afternoon we attended, three understudies performed. Each performance was so good, the people in my party agreed we would have had no idea they were understudies without being told.
I highly recommend this set of plays.
MORGAN ST. JAMES
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Gerald H Dessner
Member since 2006
19 Reviews
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Two very enertaining and inciteful one act plays. Don't miss them if you can.
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I love Broadway
Member since 2007
39 Reviews
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Wendy S
Member since 2007
35 Reviews
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Enjoyed these plays immensely. In Pushcart you get a new immigrant who is lost in his new country, and trying to adjust to make himself an American, and better his life as soon as possible...and he succeeds with the help of another new immigrant who shows him the ropes.
74 Georgia Avenue is a more serious play, and shows another man who is lost. Only he is lost in the past, when things were better for him. Through the help of the man who now lives in his family home, he relives his history. You don't have to be Jewish to appreciate both of these stories. Definite recommend.
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Harry Brener
Member since 2005
9 Reviews
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This duo of plays tugged at the Jewish funny bone, and at the Jewish soul. Pushcart Peddlers was a somewhat vacuous but humorous look and how and established immigrant "helped" the new immigrant early in the 20th century. We of course know now that many of these peddlers became the founders of the country's major department stores!
74 Georgia Avenue, which some on the site have lambasted as "depressing" was a beautiful and sensitive look at several aspects of life: First, there was the dynamic of the Jewish immigrant family which started as a close-knit group, then due to dysfunctional dynamics blew apart after the 2nd generation "made it." Second, it spoke of the "invisible Schvartze" who toiled in the synagogue large unnoticed by the congregation. Third, it addressed the feelings of the children of the shul caretakers who remained behind in neighborhoods that had changed dramatically. In this case, Joseph yearned for the days when that neighborhood was Jewish and safer. He identified far more with the "old Jews" than with his current neighbors, of whom he was afraid. This play also provides a study on dealing with feelings and with death. A true gem!
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Lynne
Member since 2004
8 Reviews
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loved both plays - especially the 2nd one - amazing could get so much of a story in one act - The actors were wonderful - wish we had more plays as these were.
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Goldstar Member
Member since 2005
3 Reviews
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Both plays were well done. The first, more comedic and the second more serious, We enjoyed the characterizations.
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Goldstar Member
Member since 2006
11 Reviews
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Great performance by Larry Margo.
Well done.
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Goldstar Member
Member since 2005
2 Reviews
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OK ...what a treat
so well written,directed and performed...
amazing ...I felt transported to a different
time and place...
the author would be so honored to see such a
wonderful production of his work...
a fan...
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Gary R.
Member since 2006
2 Reviews
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74 Georgia Ave was great! Both actors did a superb job. The play enveloped each member of our group from the beginning until the end. Gave mcuh food for thought.
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Saralane Tennin Allen
Member since 2005
24 Reviews
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Went with another couple, and we all enjoyed the plays very much. We all agreed that we liked the "Pushcart Peddlers" more than we did "74 Georgia Avenue" because we found that it was a bit depressing. The premise was excellent though and very well acted. All in all a very enjoyable afternoon.
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Janice M.
Member since 2006
16 Reviews
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All around professional quality production. Very enjoyable evening, probably even more so if I were Jewish. Yummy snacks and wine at intermission. Comfortable, intimate theater.
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Quotes & Highlights
- “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
More Information
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.
