{"id":24497,"date":"2013-02-10T23:28:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T06:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=24497"},"modified":"2013-02-10T23:28:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T06:28:13","slug":"ah-jerusalem-a-new-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=24497","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Jerusalem &#8211; A New Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ah, Jerusalem!<\/em> a new musical &#8211; in English &#8211; produced and directed by Bernie Kukoff, will premiere this month in Jerusalem, with performances every Sunday and Thursday evening at Beit Shmuel, beginning February 21, 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ah-jerusalem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24498\" alt=\"ah jerusalem_invitation_final\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ah-jerusalem.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ah-jerusalem.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ah-jerusalem-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kukoff, whose past credits include The Cosby Show and the delightful <em>I Love You, You\u2019re Perfect, Now Change<\/em>, has turned his attention to Jerusalem, and the comic\/romantic potentials of its history.<\/p>\n<p>A short description of the plot from the creators:<\/p>\n<p>Charlie and Madeline Axelrod and their teen-age daughter Robin are packed to go on vacation to Mexico when Charlie gets a nighttime \u201cvision\u201d from his ancestral Uncle Mordechai imploring Charlie to go on a mission to Jerusalem to retrieve a family treasure.\u00a0 And so begins the adventures of the Axelrods of Indianapolis, as they travel through centuries \u2013 encountering love in the time of King Solomon, danger in the time of the Crusades, and a \u201cticket to history\u201d in the Jerusalem bus station circa 1920.\u00a0 The show is full of humor and twists, as the Axelrods experience a high-energy, transformational journey through Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ah, Jerusalem!<\/em><br \/>\nSundays &amp; Thursdays at 20:00, Beit Shmuel, 6 Shama Street, Jerusalem.<br \/>\nTickets may be ordered <a href=\"www.bimot.co.il\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>, or call: 02-6237000.<\/p>\n<p>Original play by: Bernie Kukoff, Lucille Lichtblau &amp; Alan Gelb<br \/>\nDirector: Bernie Kukoff<br \/>\nOriginal score &amp; lyrics and musical director: Danny Paller<br \/>\nSet design: Michael Kramenko<br \/>\nCostume design: Frieda Klapholtz Avrahami &amp; Michal Yaakobi<br \/>\nLighting: Eli Kaplan-Wildmann<br \/>\nChoreography: Ofra Idel Ruby Edelman,; and Yaeli Greenblatt<br \/>\nProducers: Bernie Kukoff, Danny Paller &amp; Bimot 10<br \/>\nGeneral manager: Daniel Alter<br \/>\nFeaturing: Nitzan Sitzer, Roni Yacobovitz, Miri Fraenkel, Josh Bloomberg, Lev Kerzhner, Gady Weissbart, Rosie Richman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Jerusalem! a new musical &#8211; in English &#8211; produced and directed by Bernie Kukoff, will premiere this month in Jerusalem, with performances every Sunday and Thursday evening at Beit Shmuel, beginning February 21, 2013. Kukoff, whose past credits include The Cosby Show and the delightful I Love You, You\u2019re Perfect, Now Change, has turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}