A Shayna Maidel at The Colony Theatre

by Barbara Lebow

Denise Dillard and Tim O'Hare

Director
Producer
Sound Design
Lighting Design
Scenic Design
Costume Design
Dialect Coact
Stage Manager
Light Operators

Sound Operator
Set Construction
Master Electrician
Light Rigging

Light Programming

House Manager
Production Stage Manager
Assisantant Director

Scott Segal
Barbara Beckley
Michael Hooker
Lisa De. Katz
Gary Wissman
A. Jeffrey Schoenberg
Fran Chalin
Amy Morrell
Brent Beath
Chad Borden
Jason Cole
Beverly Samuell
Johnathan Henning
Juan G. Holguin
Amy Morell
Jeremiah Penczau
Chad Borden
Clayton Whitfield
David Holmes
Amy Morrell
Ryann Gerber

**CAST**
Rayzel Weiss/Rose White Mordechai Weiss Lusia Weiss Pechenik Duvid Pechenik Hanna Mama	Denise Dillard Tim O'Hare Alison Shanks Gregory S. Foran Stacey Silverman Ursula Martin

THE SETTING

PROLOGUE
1876, a small Polish Village

ACTS I & II
March 1946, Rose White’s apartment,
New York City, West Side

GLOSSARY OF YIDDISH TERMS

A Shayna Maidel literally translates as "a pretty girl." It describes inner beauty and is an expression of love and of yearning hope.

Ain Fleish
Shvesters
Tuchter
Taten
Tanta
Mensch
Got
Shul
Mazel tov
Zie gezunt
Gai schlofen
Gai farshtai a mailel!
Aibik un aibik
Licht
Hilf

One flesh
Sisters
Daughter
Father
Aunt
A real man
God
Synagogue
Good luck
Goodbye (Literally: Go good)
Go to sleep
Go understand a girl!
Forever and ever
Light
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