Sisters Rosensweig, The

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Sisters Rosensweig, The (1992), a comedy by Wendy Wasserstein. [Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, 556 perf.] The three Rosensweig sisters were born and bred in a very ethnic Brooklyn neighborhood, but each has come far in the world. Sara ( Jane Alexander) is an international banker who has been married a few times and now finds herself attracted, against her better judgment, to the Jewish furrier Melvyn Kant ( Robert Klein). Gorgeous Teitelbaum ( Madeline Kahn) is famous in Boston for giving advice on her radio show. Pfeni ( Frances McDormand) is a renowned travel writer in a dead‐end romance with the bisexual stage director Geoffrey Duncan ( John Vickery). The three sisters meet at Sara's posh London flat to celebrate her fifty‐fourth birthday and reminisce about their ongoing relationship with their feminism and Jewishness. Daniel Sullivan directed the outstanding cast (Kahn won a Tony Award), and the comedy was so popular that Lincoln Center transferred it to Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre for a healthy run.

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