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“Grab Your Coat And Grab Your Hat…”

February 2, 2016 By Jeremiah Ginsberg

“Grab your coat and grab your hat, leave your worries on your doorstep, just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street” in Memphis, TN on April 15th, 16th and 17th, 2016, at the Colonial Baptist Church, 1503 Colonial Road, Memphis, TN.

It is there that you will see the amazing Messianic recording artist Jonathan Settel, make his theatrical debut in the starring role of Mendel Moskowitz, the Jewish fruit and vegetable dealer from Brooklyn in “Rabboni,”our award-winning Broadway-bound Messianic Gospel musical as it starts to wend its way to Broadway!

By the way, Jonathan will step onto the stage with Stephen Len White, a member of our Off-Broadway “Rabboni” cast and a long time performer with the International tour of “Phantom of the Opera,” with Christopher Regan, a member of the National Tours and New York productions of “Evita,” “Hello Dolly, “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “My Fair Lady” and other well-known shows and also singing a duet with that marvelous thespian with the great baritone voice, George Comtois who performed on Broadway in “West Side Story,” “On a Clear Day,” and in the New York City Opera.

Purchase your airline tickets and get your hotel reservations now before prices go up! This is an event you will not want to miss, and you who are fans of Jonathan Settel and great theatre should begin to make your plans now and reserve your seats for this one-of-a-kind event, so you can say, “I was there when!”

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RABBONI Auditions for Memphis Production

January 25, 2016 By Jeremiah Ginsberg

AUDITIONS!
Jeremiah Ginsberg and Jeremiah Theatricals will be hearing singers and dancers for a staged reading of the Musical “Rabboni” by Jeremiah Ginsberg February 22, 2016, from 6pm to 9pm, and February 23, 2016 from 6pm to 9pm, at Colonial Baptist Church, 1503 Colonial, Memphis, Tennessee, 38117. Production to be staged April 15, 16, and 17 at Colonial Baptist Church, 1503 Colonial, Memphis, Tennessee, 38117. Director is Jeremiah Ginsberg, Conductor and Musical Director is Darrin Newhardt . Choreographer TBA. Please prepare two songs of contrasting style from the Musical Theatre genre. Have resume and headshot ready, and be prepared to be held for a dance call. Call me at 336-7682 with questions. There is pay involved, and you need to be available for a week before the production, rehearsing as if it were “10 out of 12s”.
Cast Breakdown
Mendel Moskowitz (doubles as Nathaniel, a Disciple): 30’s to
50’s, Jewish from Brooklyn, baritone, moves well.
Yeshua: 30-ish, the Jewish Messiah, baritone, moves well. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
Beelzebub (doubles as Chief Pharisee): Ageless, the devil,
baritone, moves well. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
Pride, a Demon: 20’s to 30’s, soprano, dancer, comedic.
Lust, a Demon: 20’s to 30’s, alto, dancer, comedic.
Liar, a Demon: 20’s to 30’s, soprano, dancer, comedic.
Hate, a Demon (doubles as Pharisee): 20’s to 30’s, tenor, dancer,
comedic.
Fear, a Demon (doubles as Pharisee): 20’s to 30’s, tenor, dancer,
comedic.
Guru Looie, a Demon (doubles as Caiaphas, the High Priest: 20’s
to 30’s, bass baritone, dancer, comedic.
Hawkers, Passers-by, Ensemble: sopranos, altos, tenors, baritones
who dance/move well.
Simeon (doubles as Pilate, the Roman Governor): old Jewish
prophet, baritone, moves well.
Miriam of Magdala: 20’s to 30’s, soprano, moves well.
Miriam the Mother: 40’s to 50’s, soprano, moves well.
Simon Peter, a Disciple: 20’s to 30’s, baritone, dancer.
John, a Disciple: 20’s to 30’s, baritone, dancer.
James, a Disciple: 20’s to 30’s, tenor, dancer.
Andrew, a Disciple: 20’s to 30’s, baritone, dancer.
Matthew, a Disciple: 20’s to 30’s, baritone, dancer.
Philip, a Disciple: 20’s to 30’s, baritone, dancer.
Men:
1) Mendel/Nathaniel
2) Yeshua
3) Beelzebub/Chief Pharisee
4) Simon Peter
5) John
6) James
7) Andrew/Hawker
8) Philip/Hawker
9) Matthew/Hawker
10) Hate/Pharisee/Hawker
11) Fear/Pharisee/Hawker
12) Guru Looie/Caiaphas
13) Simeon/Pilate/Hawker
Women:
1) Miriam of Magdala
2) Miriam the Mother
3) Pride
4) Liar
5) Lust
6) Ensemble
7) Ensemble

This is the start-up of a revival of an award-winning Off-Broadway musical, a recipient of critic’s kudos and much acclaim when originally produced by the Ginsbergs at The Perry Street Theatre n NYC in 1985. Show Buzz NYC.

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Wendy Booked Our Flights and Hotel in Memphis

January 23, 2016 By Jeremiah Ginsberg

Dear friends, Like everything else, doing the work of God takes time, especially with a great musical like “Rabboni!” Everything must be done in order; “For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.” (Isa.28:10) Excellence is the order of the day, and we have a constant goal of making that our most important objective!

Now Steveroni, Wendy’s and my good friend and my Assistant Director, (Stephen Len White, a great “Phantom Of The Opera” International Tour actor and singer, who was also in our original off-Broadway “Rabboni” cast and has performed in our productions off and on for many years now; oy! We all get older, don’t we!) has advised me that he finally got a call back from the wonderful Memphis choreographer who he was trying to reach. She was out of town and only just got his phone message; and, now they are playing phone tag.

Of course, we have worked with many great choreographers over the years but it is important that we have a member of our team who is a top professional and is well known in the area where we are producing our award-winning musical so that we will be able to reach the best dancers in that locale for staggeringly excellent performances. Of course, a few of those dancers may go all the way up to Broadway with us and that is an exciting possibility for those who join our company in Memphis. But “excellence” is, as I have said, always the most important consideration when you want to glorify a great God! There is no room for second rate. So we must choose the very best professionals on every level, actors, singers and dancers for our theatrical company.

So, Wendy and I are excited because the spokes of the wheel are starting to be put into place, and soon we will be rolling along our way to Broadway, Memphis first stop, where on February 20th to the 23rd we will be conducting auditions for actors, singers and dancers. Wendy and I and Steve will also be singing a few songs from “Rabboni” at both services of the Colonial Baptist Church where the performances (Livestreamed for you armchair critics at home) will be staged on April 15th, 16th and 17th. Please pray for us that we will find and put together an outstanding cast who will all be of an excellent spirit as well.

Remember to keep checking out our latest postings, and don’t forget to sign up on our email list so that we can update you with all the latest tidbits and offers! So long for now, dear friends! Jeremiah signing off.

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Rabboni, the Transformer

January 14, 2016 By Jeremiah Ginsberg

When sickening events like San Bernardino happen with as much regularity as walking to the corner store to buy groceries, it is time for caring citizens to fight back, not with guns and knives and hate-filled rhetoric, but with the utensils a loving God has given us to build bridges, succor the hurting and healing the wounds that barbaric beasts have inflicted on all too many! Even the all-too-frequent loss of loved-ones!

We are doing just that with our offering on the Broadway stage that will inject love and not hate into the hearts of audiences the world over. It has been well-noted that legislation to remove guns from circulation cannot work when rampant barbarism and hatred can inflict devastation with bombs, knives and ramming-cars as we have seen all too often in Israel and elsewhere throughout the world.

So, we at Jeremiah Theatricals have decided to seed love into the human condition by producing Rabboni The Musical in one of the most prominent places for it to be seen, the Broadway theatre. It is the story of the life, death and resurrection of the greatest Jewish innovator that ever walked the earth! No, it is not about Albert Einstein or his theory of relativity or Jonas Salk, the inventor of the lifesaving polio vaccine, Theodor Herzl or Moses that we speak, but Yeshua, the Savior and of His great love and sacrificial act for all humanity!

See it and be inspired to love your neighbors and not to hate, kill and maim them! That is our contribution. Please join us in our inspirational journey to the Broadway stage, starting in Memphis, at the Colonial Baptist Church on April 15th, 16th and 17th or on Livestream as we inject the love of God into living rooms and parlors around the globe!

Written with love and hope for the human condition!

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Rabboni Starts It’s Trek Up To Broadway!

January 10, 2016 By Jeremiah Ginsberg

My beautiful wife and partner, Wendy, is finally getting her strength back. It has been a horrible trial for us; I feared I might lose her, but thank God she was miraculously healed!

And, I am happy to tell you that we are starting up our Broadway-bound “Rabboni” again with concert version performances, including choreography and some costumes, at the Colonial Baptist Church in Memphis. Here is a link to the church where we will be performing the week before Passover on April 15th, 16th and 17th. (Click Here)

Ken Davenport, the prominent Broadway producer whose Davenport Theatricals is General managing “Rabboni,” will be assisting us in Livestreaming one of our performances nationally from Memphis. Ken Livestreamed one of their shows, “Daddy Long Legs” last month? (Read Here)

Stephen Len White is presently the music minister at the church; he is singing in the video. Steve was in our original off-B’way production and has toured extensively in the International company of “Phantom of the Opera” and will be playing the role of Yeshua in the Memphis production. Chris Regan who among other things performed in the National Touring Company of “Evita” will be performing in the role of Beelzebub.

Ken Davenport, the prominent Broadway producer whose office the Broadway General Manager for “Rabboni”, will be assisting us in Livestreaming one of our performances nationally from Memphis. They Livestreamed one of their shows, “Daddy Long Legs” last month? (Read Here) Broadway costume designerTracy Christiansen will be designing our costumes.

You will be able to see this extraordinary Messianic Gospel production from your armchair in front of your computer.

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