ALEICHEM? I LIKE HIM

posted by James Reel

    Next week I’ll have a flood of theater-related material in the Tucson Weekly—why does everything open at once?—but for today, it’s just a single preview of An Evening of Sholom Aleichem at Invisible Theatre:

Murray Horwitz misspent his youth in Dayton, Ohio, in the library. Not reading books, but listening to records. Some of those records would lead him to co-write the musical Ain't Misbehavin' in the late 1970s. One other LP didn't involve music at all, and it would inspire him years later to create not a big musical, but an intimate, one-man show that he's bringing to the Invisible Theatre next week. The disc presented actor Howard Da Silva reading stories by Sholom Aleichem, the Yiddish writer who lived from 1859 to 1916 and created, among others, the characters who populated Fiddler on the Roof.