Whether it’s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the North Fork of Long Island or in the heart of the theater district, Helane Blumfield, Lynda Rodolitz, Peggy Schwartz and Deborah Zecher share their experiences with Four Women, Four Stories on Sunday, October 23 at 4:30 PM, with Steven Ray Watkins on piano.
Using the music of “mostly” Jewish songwriters, Four Women, Four Stories offers a picture of the lives of four friends who got to know each other in cabaret classes in New York City. It highlights the choices we all make in our lives and celebrates the paths our lives have taken. The show was created when the leaders of North Fork Reform Synagogue asked member Peggy Schwartz to perform a cabaret show as a synagogue fund-raiser. She invited Blumfield, Rodolitz and Zecher to join her. Calling upon their mentor and well-known cabaret director Lennie Watts to direct and Bobby Peaco to serve as their musical director, this show was born.
After a 30-year career in advertising, Blumfield returned to the stage with her debut show Verge, followed a few years later with her second solo show Call Me H, and then many more up to her latest show this year, Me and Bobby Peaco. Blumfield is also a sought-after photographer, and photojournalist.
Lynda Rodolitz has worked as a video artist, a stand-up comic and an actress. She was a 2017 MAC Award nominee for Musical Comedy Performer for her show Lynda Rodolitz Is Off Her Rocker, the 2018 winner of Mama’s Next Big Act, a singing competition sponsored by Don’t Tell Mama, and the winner of the MAC Award for Musical Comedy Performer for her show Animal Magnetism in 2020.
Over the past several decades, Peggy Schwartz taught music and theater to hearing and deaf children, was a co-founder of a small non-profit film and video production company and did industrial voiceovers. She has been a part of the New York City cabaret community for close to 10 years. After being part of several group shows, she is now preparing for her debut solo show in the coming year.
After a fulfilling 32-year career as a Reform Rabbi in NY, Maryland and at Hevreh of Southern Berkshire in Great Barrington, MA, Zecher embraced the next chapter of her life as a cabaret singer. In May 2018, she presented her NY debut show On Purpose, a nominee for Best Debut by MAC and Broadway World. She also travels around the country to synagogues and other Jewish organizations as an artist-in-residence with On Purpose and other shows.
For reservations: www.donttellmamanyc.com
Don’t Tell Mama is located at 343 West 46th Street, New York, NY
