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Bar Mitzvah Blues
A short play by Neville Mur

June 15-17, 22-24 2007
Directed by Larry Schmidt
Original Music by Chris Gibson

The time is May, 1948, a few weeks after Israel was recognized as a free state by the United States. A 12-year old Brooklyn boy has been expelled from Hebrew School for making blasphemous remarks in class, just a few short months before he is to make his Bar Mitzvah. Although banned from the temple, the Rabbi agrees to let him be tutored outside the temple, and be confirmed if he can learn his prayers before his thirteenth birthday. Will he learn his prayers in time, or will he pass into Jewish manhood without being formally inducted as a Bar Mitzvah boy?

CAST

JACOB MANN SARAH MANN NATHAN MANN RONNIE MANN

Robert Ashton Suzanne Greenwald Ethan Dudenhoeffer Kurt Jarvis

Later became part of Around the Clock reading series in New York. It also became basis of two act play Brooklyn Bagatelle that became a finalist in the 76th Annual Writers Digest Writing Competition and 3rd Annual Great Plains Theatre Conference

Sarah Mann (Suzanne Greenwald), Jacob Mann (Robert Ashton) have to solve the problem of their younger son Nathan Mann (Ethan Dedenhoeffer) being expelled from Hebrew School with some help from older brother Ronnie (Kurt Jarvis)