Join Us for A Musical Salute to Molly Picon, Star of the Yiddish Theatre!

Join us this Sunday, June 2nd, at 3 PM 

as Congregation Adas Emuno presents…

“A Musical Salute to Molly Picon, 

Star of the Yiddish Theatre!”

featuring Diane Cypkin

Dr. Diane Cypkin has appeared in many Yiddish language musical productions spanning more than two decades.  In a “Musical Salute to Molly Picon, Star of the Yiddish Theatre!” Dr. Cypkin tells—through English narration—the life story of this exciting First Lady of the Yiddish Stage through the countless songs she sang and often wrote during her many, many years on the Yiddish stage.  Indeed, the concert is a cornucopia, a beautiful bouquet, of tangos, waltzes, and fox-trots, that will have you humming for days.  In sum, the concert is a tribute to a legend!

Suggested donation: $10 at the door. 

Lite refreshments served.

Sponsored by

The Edward M. Cramer Musical Programming Fund

&

The Adas Emuno Adult Education Committee

All Ages Welcome

Dr. Diane Cypkin has appeared in many Yiddish language musical productions spanning more than two decades. She was Sheyne, opposite Joseph Buloff in Ossip Dymov’s Yoshke Muzikant (Joseph the Musician) at the Folksbiene Playhouse; Beylke, David Opatoshu’s daughter, in Sholom Aleichem’s Dos Groyse Gevins (The Big Winner) at the Eden Theatre; Gitale in Ben Bonus’s production of Light, Lively, and Yiddish at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway; and Tsirl in the Mary Soriano presentation Di Yidishe Tsigaynerke (The Jewish Gypsy) at Town Hall in New York. 

 Dr. Cypkin has done a great deal of concert work. Some highlights: in New York, in conjunction with her exhibition at Lincoln Center entitled, Molly Picon: Yiddish Star, American Star; she presented a lecture/concert on “Molly Picon and Her Yiddish Music”; in Washington DC, she gave a concert of her father’s—Abraham Cypkin’s—songs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum when the museum presented an exhibition on the Kovno Ghetto of Lithuania. Diane is a child of survivors. In 1981, she sang at the World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Cypkin has worked in the English-speaking theatre as both singer and actor in shows at the Soho Repertory Theatre, the New York Theatre Workshop, the Jan Hus Playhouse, and the Three Muses Theatre. In addition, she has directed productions of The World of Sholom Aleichem, The Theatre of Peretz, and Green Fields. 

On the academic side, in 2007, she curated the aforementioned exceptionally well-received exhibition at Lincoln Center, New York on Molly Picon. For almost ten years she was Yiddish Theatre Consultant at the Museum of the City of New York and curated the highly successful exhibition, A Celebration: 100 Years of Yiddish Theatre in New York. For the past twenty years, Dr. Cypkin has reviewed books for Martyrdom and Resistance, a newspaper published by Yad Vashem. Dr. Cypkin is presently Professor of Media, Communication, and Visual Arts at Pace University in New York. She has been there twenty years. She is a recipient of the Kenan Award for Teaching Excellence and the Pace University President’s “Extra Mile” Award. 

In a “Musical Salute to Molly Picon, Star of the Yiddish Theatre!” Dr. Cypkin tells—through English narration—the life story of this exciting First Lady of the Yiddish Stage through the countless songs she sang and often wrote during her many, many years on the Yiddish stage. Indeed, the concert is a cornucopia, a beautiful bouquet, of tangos, waltzes, and fox-trots, that will have you humming for days. In sum, the concert is a tribute to a legend!