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May 30-June 5, 2002
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She's often imitated and sometimes duplicated, admired as a goddess and reviled as a diva. The woman known to many simply as "Babs" and to no one as Barbara, is, of course, Barbra Streisand. Beyond her actual singing and acting career is her near-mythical status and an entire culture created around her (witness Mike Myers' mother-in-law Linda Richmond or well, pretty much any Jewish mother). Actor-turned-playwright Daniel Stern (City Slickers, Fred Savage's wistful adult voice-in-his-head on The Wonder Years) is opening a new show in town this week dealing with the world around Barbra Streisand, or, more specifically, next door to her. Stern's play, Barbra's Wedding, focuses on Jerry Siff, a fictional unemployed has-been actor living next door to the grand dame herself, as she prepares for her wedding to James Brolin. Paparazzi and hysteria follow the wedding planning, and Jerry must contend with his own troubled marriage in the wake of the über-nuptials.
Barbra's Wedding is directed by David Warren, coming to town after his production of Hobson's Choice in New York (Martha Plimpton just got an Obie for her work in the show), and features John Pankow (Ira, Paul's brother, on Mad About You) and Julie White (Mitzi Dalton-Huntley on Six Feet Under). Thursday's dress rehearsal is open to the public as a pay-what-you-can benefit for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia.
Barbra’s Wedding, dress rehearsal Thu., May 30, 8 p.m., runs May 31-June 30, $28-$42, Plays & Players Theater, 1714 Delancey St., 215-569-9700.
