12 Things To Do In August That Will Make You Just A Little More Jewish – Forward
Posted By simmons on August 2, 2017
Welcome to August: Youre tired of the heat. A chance to walk romantically through falling leaves maybe even while wearing a sweater, of all things is beginning to sound appealing, and youve suffered too many sunburns to be coaxed back to the pool. Never fear! With great new television premieres, music and theater festivals galore, and the opening of a thrilling new museum exhibit or two, you, too, can enjoy the end of your summer. Here are 12 ways to celebrate the month:
1. Sail away with Rodgers & Hammerstein.
Lincoln Center Theaters production of The King and I went all-out, complete with sets so enchanting as to be almost alarming. Residents of Washington, D.C., who missed the productions New York run will have a chance to catch it at the Kennedy Center, where it will play through August 20. Then they, like their Manhattan fellows, can spend the next year getting Getting To Know You out of their heads.
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Harold Prince, both the subject and director of Prince of Broadway.
2. Pay homage to Broadways Prince.
Producer and director Harold Prince has won 21 Tony Awards for shows as iconic as West Side Story, Sweeney Todd and The Phantom of the Opera. Come August, selections from the 34 works hes mounted on Broadway will appear together in Prince of Broadway, a musical making its American premiere on the Great White Way. If youre a sucker for show tunes, this is the extravaganza youve been waiting for especially as it features all-new arrangements of the famous songs Prince helped bring to the stage, courtesy of Jason Robert Brown, himself a three-time Tony winner.
3. Witness an unusual world premiere.
The illustrator and writer Maria Kalman has won hearts for her inventive examinations of subjects ranging from the fictional canine poet named Max Stravinsky to a very adult experience of American democracy. At the Jacobs Pillow Dance festival, located, like Williamstown, in the Berkshires, witness the world premiere of John Heginbothams evening-length program based on Kalmans writing and art. Called The Principles of Uncertainty, the work will feature an original score by violinist and composer Colin Jacobsen of Brooklyn Rider and of the Silk Road Ensemble.
4. Unwind at Ravinia.
Ravinia, a well-loved outdoor music venue in the northern suburbs of Chicago, plays host to an eclectic music festival each summer. This August the hits include an evening of works by the ever-morbid composer Gustav Mahler back-to-back with a performance by Gladys Knight. No matter how varied your tastes, we think youll find a match.
5. Listen to Gershwin under the California sky.
The Los Angeles Philharmonics summer programming at the Hollywood Bowl is full of treats, from the dreamily conceived Gershwin Under the Stars to a guest appearance by violinist Joshua Bell, who will try his hand at Stravinsky. (No, not the dog.) An All-Mendelssohn program August 8 is also not to be missed.
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Members of the cast of An American in Paris perform at the 2015 Tony Awards.
6. Speaking of Gershwin.
Chicagoans, get whisked off to Paris! The Broadway production of the Gershwin-heavy An American in Paris arrived in the Windy City in late July and will depart come mid-August. Dont miss a chance to see the gorgeously choreographed musical, directed by ballet wunderkind Christopher Wheeldon, and tap your foot quietly to some classic tunes. As George and Ira Gershwin would say: S wonderful! S marvelous!
7. And speaking of Joshua Bell.
Lincoln Centers Mostly Mozart Festival is an annual favorite, and Bell will appear there before heading to Hollywood, playing Brahms with cellist Steven Isserlis. Another festival highlight will be Gil Shahams take on Tchaikovskys Violin Concerto. Two Jewish violin dynamos in one month? Why not!
8. Seek the next great American playwright.
Theres a strong tradition of great American Jewish playwrights to put it lightly from Arthur Miller and Lillian Hellman to Tony Kushner and Annie Baker. Who will be next to join their ranks? Head to Williamstown, Massachusetts, where the annual Williamstown Theatre Festival often heralds great new work, to find out. The August lineup includes works by the young playwrights Halley Feiffer, represented by a new take on Anton Chekhovs Three Sisters, and Anna Ziegler, whose Actually is a contemporary take on privilege and morality.
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An image from the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann.
9. Experience Eichmanns trial.
It doesnt officially open until September, but if youre a member or friend of Manhattans Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, get a sneak peek at the new exhibit Operation Finale: The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann in August. The immersive exhibit, which includes newly declassified artifacts never previously exhibited outside Israel, re-creates the setting of the 1961 trial of the infamous Nazi official who oversaw the deportations of European Jews to concentration camps.
10. Engage in the religious life of early America.
Before rounding the corner into the High Holidays, visit Washington, D.C.s National Museum of American History as it plays host to an exhibit on the religious life of the early United States. Jews were a tiny minority in the new country, but far from invisible; one of the objects in the exhibit will be a Torah scroll from Manhattans Spanish-Portuguese Congregation Shearith Israel, founded in 1654.
11. Head back to camp with old friends.
Wet Hot American Summer, a classic early-2000s send-up of summer camp, received an unexpectedly delightful reboot in the 2015 Netflix series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp. Come August 4, the old gang, including Paul Rudds arrogant man-child, Elizabeth Bankss high-powered if ethically conflicted journalist, and Michael Showalters unlucky-in-love-and-hairstyles Coop, returns in Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later. Expect a talking can, deadpan humor and bad make-outs, and to laugh until you cry.
12. And get high with Abbi and Ilana.
Craving 80s hairstyles, frank discussions of masturbation, merciless ridiculing of SoulCycle, screams of Yass and a genuinely enormous amount of marijuana? Hurray for you: Broad City is coming back. Follow the cringey-comedic exploits of aimless New York 20-somethings Abbi and Ilana when they return to Comedy Central on August 23.
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