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Ergo Entertainment's Production of
Dudu Fisher's=20
One Man Off-Broadway Show
'Something Old, Something New'
Mazer Theater
197 East Broadway, at Jefferson Street, Lower East Side

Reviewed by the New York Times, Lawrence Van Gelder.....
_____________________________________________

The Israeli entertainer Dudu Fisher calls his latest show "Something Old,
Something New," but he might just as well have called it "Something for
Everyone."=20

Appearing through Dec. 8 at the Mazer Theater on the Lower East Side, Mr.
Fisher, with his expressive voice, ranges across the repertory from the
cantorial to the operatic, from musical theater to pop. With his actorly
skills, he can bring a tear to the eye (his or the audience's), a catch to
the throat, a smile to the lips, and call forth laughter.

As usual he invokes his wife and three children, tells how he began as a
cantor and was drawn to show business when he saw "Les Mis=E9rables" in Lond=
on
in 1986 and how he became determined to play Jean Valjean, which he did,
from Israel and the West End to Broadway.

So, in an intermissionless evening directed by Richard Jay-Alexander, Mr.
Fisher, backed by a piano and bass and singing in English and Hebrew, weaves
his liturgical training and his love affair with musicals into a
warmhearted, ingratiating entertainment that spans music from a setting of
the Kaddish prayer to Gershwin, Jolson, "Oklahoma!," Elvis and the Red Hot
Chili Peppers.

In "Something," Mr. Fisher can overdo the sentiment, and some of his
anecdotes could profit from pruning; but he sets out to entertain, and that
he surely does.

LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

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Dudu Fisher's <BR>
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'Something Old, Something New'<BR>
Mazer Theater<BR>
197 East Broadway, at Jefferson Street, Lower East Side<BR>
<BR>
Reviewed by the New York Times, Lawrence Van Gelder.....<BR>
_____________________________________________<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
The Israeli entertainer Dudu Fisher calls his latest show "Something Old,<BR=
>
Something New," but he might just as well have called it "Something for<BR>
Everyone." <BR>
<BR>
Appearing through Dec. 8 at the Mazer Theater on the Lower East Side, Mr.<BR=
>
Fisher, with his expressive voice, ranges across the repertory from the<BR>
cantorial to the operatic, from musical theater to pop. With his actorly<BR>
skills, he can bring a tear to the eye (his or the audience's), a catch to<B=
R>
the throat, a smile to the lips, and call forth laughter.<BR>
<BR>
As usual he invokes his wife and three children, tells how he began as a<BR>
cantor and was drawn to show business when he saw "Les Mis=E9rables" in Lond=
on<BR>
in 1986 and how he became determined to play Jean Valjean, which he did,<BR>
from Israel and the West End to Broadway.<BR>
<BR>
So, in an intermissionless evening directed by Richard Jay-Alexander, Mr.<BR=
>
Fisher, backed by a piano and bass and singing in English and Hebrew, weaves=
<BR>
his liturgical training and his love affair with musicals into a<BR>
warmhearted, ingratiating entertainment that spans music from a setting of<B=
R>
the Kaddish prayer to Gershwin, Jolson, "Oklahoma!," Elvis and the Red Hot<B=
R>
Chili Peppers.<BR>
<BR>
In "Something," Mr. Fisher can overdo the sentiment, and some of his<BR>
anecdotes could profit from pruning; but he sets out to entertain, and that<=
BR>
he surely does.<BR>
<BR>
LAWRENCE VAN GELDER<BR>
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