Tovah Feldshuh
Sunday, October 30, 4:00 p.m.
$35 members, $42 public, $42 at the door
VIP $500/couple includes premium seats and post-performance reception with Tovah Feldshuh at private home. Limited availability.
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Hot off television sets of The Walking Dead and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Tovah Feldshuh now comes to the Merage JCC with her new show, "Aging is Optional". "Aging is Optional" is an age-defying romp which serves up an hour of Restaylne for the soul, a booster for the heart and a probiotic of laughter… and exercise! As Tovah puts it: “Some people call them decades; I call them my collected works.”
Tovah Feldshuh is an expert in one woman shows. Her Golda's Balcony became the longest running one woman show in the history of Broadway. Three of her favorite characters (Sylvia Chronic, Joe, and Grandma Ada) will be joining us on October 30th with a slew of surprising others.
The past year Tovah has had a year immersed in television. She recently finished playing Deanna Monroe, head of Alexandria, in the runaway hit THE WALKING DEAD for AMC. She can also be seen on Starz as Russian Ballet Mistress, Ivana, in the miniseries FLESH & BONE. Most recently, she was tapped to play Naomi Bunch, mother of Rebecca in the Golden Globe-winning hit, CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND on the CW, where she can be seen singing the dignified showstopper: “Where’s the Bathroom!”
You may remember her for her Emmy Nominated work as defense attorney Danielle Melnick in LAW & ORDER or her portrayal of Czech Freedom Fighter, Helena Slomova, in NBC’s HOLOCAUST, for which she received her second nomination. She has starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones in THE AMAZING HOWARD HUGHES, James Woods in CITIZEN COHN, Bill Cosby on THE COSBY MYSTERIES and THE COSBY SHOW, Richard Dreyfuss in THE EDUCATION OF MAX BICKFORD, and Piper Perabo in USA’s COVERT AFFAIRS.
Last season on Broadway, Ms. Feldshuh stopped the show as the trapeze-swinging Berthe in the Tony Award-winning musical revival of PIPPIN. Prior to that, she played Lady Politic in the acclaimed revival of Ben Jonson’s VOLPONE at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. As Jason Zinoman of The New York Times raved, “No one earns more laughs than the marvelous Tovah Feldshuh. Her diva-like flourishes are precisely timed, her entrances and exits designed for maximum impact.”
For her other work on the New York stage, from YENTL to SARAVA! and LEND ME A TENOR to GOLDA’S BALCONY and IRENA’S VOW, she has earned four Tony nominations for Best Actress and won four Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Obie, the Theatre World Award and the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Actress. On October 3, 2004, GOLDA’S BALCONY became the longest-running one-woman show in the history of Broadway, a record it still holds. Since then, Ms. Feldshuh toured GOLDA to Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Atlanta, Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Buffalo, San Diego’s Old Globe, where she was honored the Theatre Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance, and Washington D.C.’s Theater J, where she won the Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress.
Tovah made her directorial debut in New York City with Naomi Ragen’s WOMEN’S MINYAN.