”A Night in the Old Marketplace”
Musical from New York at Glassalen in Tivoli on February 11, 2012 at 19:30

A Night in the Old Marketplace is a funny, gloomy and mystical musical performance based on the legendary Yiddish play from 1907 by Itzhak Laib Peretz (1852-1915), who was one of the greatest Yiddish writers of the 20th century.
Now, a hundred years later, Frank London mixed images, video clips and Jewish tunes with jazz and world music and composed music to his version of the play. While preserving Jewish poetry and narrative, he turned the play into a unique multi-media musical where time, tunes and traditions of the old marketplace gain a new significance.
The story revolves around three men who blame themselves for the tragic death of the young bride, Sheyndele, 20 years earlier. The show is performed by a group of eleven prize-winning American musicians and singers from the world of television, theatre and music. Each of them, playing several characters, brings new life to the picture animation running as the backdrop on the stage. Dark, dramatic and deep rhythms bring out the dark humour and the overwhelming images and sound open up our imagination and a presence of horror gets under the skin.
The greatest Jewish musicians created this show: Frank London is a world famous trumpet player, klezmer and jazz musician and a member of the klezmer band “the Klezmatics” (Grammy-winner in 2006). He was one of the main force behind the klezmer revival. Director of the show is Alexandra Aron, based in New York and the lyrics were written by double Emmy-winner Glen Berger. With this magnificent performance Frank London has taken klezmer music and Yiddish theatre into the 21th century, by showing its relevance and attraction for a modern audience.
During the last 5 years Jewish Culture in Copenhagen has closely worked with Frank London and proudly present the New York show with its original cast in Copenhagen at Glassalen in Tivoli on February 11.
The show has been performed in Toronto, Milan and Warsaw in 2001. It has been – in cooperation with Frank London – adapted to a Danish-Jewish framework: the narrative has been translated into Danish and the show will be narrated Ina-Miriam Rosenbaum, one of the most known Danish-Jewish actors.
This show will be the first Jewish musical performed in Denmark since The Fiddler on the Roof.

Listen to the music
www.anightintheoldmarketplace.com

See the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ4gs1RBa80



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