Tovah Feldshuh's One Woman Show "Aging is Optional" Comes to Pompano Beach January 11-12

If you're spending January in South Florida, you'll have a unique opportunity to see the award-winning actress Tovah Feldshuh in her acclaimed one-woman show Aging is Optional at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center on January 11 and 12, 2024. If you're wintering elsewhere, we're sharing a 10 minute excerpt from the show right here. 

In this video clip, Feldshuh portrays a range of characters from Mama Lily and Grandma Ada to a French nightclub singer to Naomi Bunch in My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend to broadcaster Sylvia Chronic and others.

Tovah Feldshuh is a six-time Emmy & Tony nominee and has been awarded three honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters. Additionally, for her theatre work, she has won four Drama Desks, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, three Dramalogues, the Obie, the Theatre World, and the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Actress. 

She has recently been twice nominated as Best Actress in a Drama in Los Angeles for her work in the play Sisters-in-Law, in which she originated the role of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She recently starred in Funny Girl on Broadway as Rosie Brice. 

Enjoy!

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Tovah Feldshuh is Dr. Ruth Westheimer in a New Show About Her Life at the Museum of Jewish Heritage

93-year-old Dr. Ruth Westheimer is well known as a sex therapist, talk show host, author, professor, Holocaust survivor, and former Haganah sniper. 

Her life story is being portrayed in Becoming Dr. Ruth, a limited-run show at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park in lower Manhattan. 

The one-woman show, written by Mark St. Germain and directed by Bay Street Theater’s Artistic Director Scott Schwartz, chronicles the life of Dr. Ruth, from her early years fleeing Nazi Germany, living as an orphan in Switzerland, to her service in the Israeli armed forces as a sharpshooter, and her later life and career in New York. 

Actress Tovah Feldshuh has transformed herself into a replica of Dr. Ruth for this performance, which runs through January 2.

Dr. Ruth and Feldshuh have been longtime friends, as revealed in this joint interview that appeared on the NY1 TV station last week.

Enjoy!

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Tovah Feldshuh and Patti LuPone Sing "Remember That We Suffered" on "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"

The CW Network's video hit sitcom series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is now in its third season. Back in 2015 we posted a song from the series with actress Tovah Feldshuh rushed into her daughter's home singing Where's the Bathroom? 

Last year the second season included a funny spoof song with Patti LuPone playing the role of Rabbi Shari at a family Bar Mitzvah.

LuPone and Feldshuh join the family celebrants in a hora "Remember That We Suffered". 

As Linda Buchwald wrote in a review for JTA,

Broadway legend Patti LuPone guests as Rabbi Shari and sings “in a minor key to remember that we suffered.” That would have been enough —dayenu! — but then Tovah Feldshuh, in a recurring guest role as Rebecca’s mother Naomi, joins in, too. If there’s not an online petition yet to replace “Hava Nagila” with this song during the hora at all future bar mitzvahs, there should be.

Enjoy! 

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Tovah Feldshuh Sings "Where's the Bathroom?" on "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" TV Show

Tovah Feldshuh, the talented Jewish actress who portrayed Golda Meir in the Broadway show Golda's Balcony, has performed in many Broadway and TV shows such as Law & Order.   

Back in 2010 we wrote about her comedy and singing talents and posted videos of her one-woman show in which she sings songs from Gershwin to Judy Collins and inhabits a gallery of hilarious characters, ages 8 to 80.

Now Feldshuh has a new role, that of the divorced and overbearing Jewish mother of lawyer Rebecca Bunch, whose romantic adventures are chronicled in the TV sitcom series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

A highlight of the show's first season was the appearance of Feldshuh, rushing into her daughter's home after a plane trip and looking for the bathroom. The song Where's the Bathroom? is hilarious and tells everything you need to know about their relationship.

Enjoy!

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