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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>The Classic Theater Guild is pleased to announce auditions for<b> <span style='color:black'>A Shayna Maidel</span></b><span style='color:black'> by Barbara Lebow, directed by Stephen Sanborn. Performances are Feb. 29<sup>th</sup>, March 2<sup>nd</sup> & 3<sup>rd</sup>, and the following weekend of March 7<sup>th</sup>, 9<sup>th</sup> & 10<sup>th</sup>, 2024. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Auditions</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> will be held on:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:.5in;margin-left:.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Audition: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Wednesday<span style='color:black'> Nov. 29<sup>th</sup> – 7pm audition</span><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:.5in;margin-left:.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Audition: Nov. 30<sup>th</sup> - – 7pm audition</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:1.5in;margin-left:.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Callback: Saturday Dec. 2<sup>nd</sup> – 10am callbacks (<i>as needed</i>)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:2.0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> <span style='color:black'>All auditions and performances are held at the Congregation Beth Israel, 2195 Eastern Parkway, Schenectady, NY (Niskayuna)</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=gmail-m2626203751215661339msolistparagraph style='margin-top:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>All roles are available. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=gmail-m2626203751215661339msolistparagraph style='margin-top:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Sides will be provided at the audition.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=gmail-m2626203751215661339msolistparagraph style='margin-top:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>If potential auditioners would like to look at sides in advance please write the director at <a href="mailto:StephenSanbornPhD@gmail.com" target="_blank">StephenSanbornPhD@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>SYNOPSIS: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#575757'>Barbara Lebow's play <i>A Shayna Maidel,</i> first produced in </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>1985, dramatizes the saga of the Weiss family, Polish Jews whose lives are irrecoverably altered by the Holocaust. <i>A Shayna Maidel</i> is a memory play in that it is set in three times: when Mordechai is born in 1876, when his two daughters (Rose Weiss and Lusia Weiss Pechenik) are reunited in <a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/united-states-and-canada/us-political-geography/new-york" target="_blank"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>New York</span></a> City during the present (1946), and when Lusia has flashbacks of her life in Poland immediately before and after the Holocaust. Lusia has survived Auschwitz, and the <a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/political-science-and-government/international-organizations/red-cross" target="_blank"><span style='color:black;text-decoration:none'>Red Cross</span></a> and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society have contacted her father to inform him that she is coming to <a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/united-states-and-canada/us-political-geography/new-york" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;text-decoration:none'>New York</span></a>. Mordechai insists that she come to live with her sister, Rose. This order from her father upsets Rose because she does not remember her sister and thus feels uncomfortable about sharing an apartment with her. In addition, Rose, having come to New York at the age of four, has become fully Americanized and has even changed her name from Rayzel Weiss to Rose White. Although she is not ashamed of being Jewish, she has distanced herself from her past in Poland and her Jewish heritage; she does not even keep kosher, which disturbs Mordechai. The main reason Rose feels uncomfortable about </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>living with Lusia is her guilt: she has enjoyed a peaceful and uneventful life in New York while her sister suffered unspoken atrocities during the Holocaust. Mordechai, his wife, and his two daughters were supposed to leave Poland for New York, but before they could leave, Lusia contracted <a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/medicine/diseases-and-conditions/pathology/scarlet-fever" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;text-decoration:none'>scarlet fever</span></a> and had to remain in Poland with her mother. Therefore, Mordechai had taken Rose (Rayzel) with him to New York and had intended to have his wife and Lusia join them after the daughter recovered. But when the war breaks out, mother and daughter cannot leave the country. Lusia initially does not mind being left behind because she can remain with her best friend Hanna and because she has fallen in love with Duvid. Lusia marries Duvid, and they have a child (Sprinze) together, but eventually Lusia, her mother, husband, child, and best friend are taken to Auschwitz. Only Lusia and Duvid survive the ordeal, and Lusia, grieving for her mother, baby, and best friend, arrives in New York to live with the relatives who left Poland before the war and to attempt to track down Duvid, whom she believes is alive and looking for her.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> <span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div></body></html>