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The Phantom of the Opera's Rachel Zatcoff Joins The Golden Bride

Zatcoff made her Broadway debut as Christine Daaé last year.

Broadway alum Rachel Zatcoff joins the cast of The Golden Bride.
Broadway alum Rachel Zatcoff joins the cast of The Golden Bride.
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Rachel Zatcoff, recent star of Broadway's The Phantom of the Opera, has joined the cast of The Golden Bride off-Broadway. The production, originally presented by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene in December 2015, is set to return for a limited engagement from July 4-August 28 at The Museum of Jewish Heritage‘s Edmond J. Safra Hall. Bryna Wasserman and Motl Didner direct, with music direction by Zalmen Mlotek.

Featuring music by Yiddish composer Joseph Rumshinsky, libretto by Frieda Freiman, and lyrics by Louis Gilrod, this romantic comedy premiered in 1923 and was revived consistently and presented internationally through the 1940's. In The Golden Bride, a beautiful young woman named Goldele, abandoned as a child, receives an unexpected inheritance and sets off on a journey across the seas to claim her estate, find her mother, and offer her hand to the man who can help.

In addition to Zatcoff, the cast also features the stars of the 2015 run, including Bob Ader (All the Way Home), Glenn Seven Allen (Light in the Piazza), Lisa Fishman, Regina Gibson, Cameron Johnson, Rachel Policar, Bruce Rebold, and Adam B. Shapiro. The ensemble includes Jordan Becke, Alex Bird, Samantha Britt, Michael Einav, Samantha Funk, Jessica Rose Futran, Lianne Gennaco, Cody A. Hernandez, Joseph Mace, Emma Ritchie, and Tatiana Wechsler.

The show, which boasts a fourteen-person orchestra, is presented in Yiddish with English and Russian supertitles. The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's original production of The Golden Bride was nominated for two Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Revival of a Musical.

The creative team is composed of John Dinning (set design), Izzy Fields (costume design), John Emmett O'Brien (sound design), Yael Lubetzky (lighting design), and Merete Muenter (choreography).

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