BROADWAY SINGS THE ODD POTATO

(The Hanukkah Musical for Everyone)

 

An internationally read picture book, an Emmy Award Winning Television Special, and a Broadway CD performed by 20 TONY AWARD WINNERS, the story of THE ODD POTATO is truly a Hanukkah classic, now entertaining a second generation of youngsters and their families. In 2003, the musical became BROADWAY SINGS THE ODD POTATO at Symphony Space in New York City, starring Broadway and Television favorites, Frank Gorshin, Charlotte Rae, B.J.Crosby, Debbie Gravitte, and Mark Jacoby.  Set in the 1950’s as the last of the “live radio shows,” BROADWAY SINGS THE ODD POTATO is easily produced and the perfect event for your next Hanukkah celebration.

 

INSPIRATION:  When she was growing up, Eileen’s dad told her a story that happened to him one Hanukkah when he was just six years old during the Great Depression, after his own father's death.  Eileen’s grandmother was a very poor immigrant from Austria.  She owned almost nothing but had a great imagination that allowed her six year old son to have a very special Hanukkah.

 

SYNOPSIS:  

14 year old Rachel Levy wants to celebrate Hanukkah

the way she remembers it before the death of her mother

a year earlier.  She looks everywhere for the family

Hanukkah menorah her grandmother brought with her from

the “Old Country.”  Rachel’s 9 year old brother, Sammy,

wants to compete in the Hebrew School Hanukkah Talent

Show, but needs his father in the act.  Mr. Levy, still grieving,

seems to be no help to either child.  But Rachel has a

“miraculous idea” when she goes to Mr. Weintraub’s Grocery

to buy potatoes  for the first night of Hanukkah and remembers

her mother’s childhood story.  Proving that “a little imagination

goes a long, long way,” THE ODD POTATO celebrates family

tradition, peppered with a little boy’s zany antics.  Year after

year, the story continues to speak to the heart as  it tickles

the funny-bone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LICENSING: For further information to license BROADWAY SINGS THE ODD POTATO for your next production, please email.

 

In 2005, 6-10 PRODUCTIONS released THE ODD POTATO: THE BROADWAY ALBUM, starring Broadway’s brightest stars (all Tony Award Winners) with narration by two-time Tony Award Winner, Judd Hirsch.     THEATERMANIA raved, “Winner after Winner!”

 

Make the holidays even brighter  with this heartfelt story performed by a glorious cast that includes Broadway stars, Jim Dale, Dan Fogler, Sutton Foster, Boyd Gaines, Debbie Gravitte, Judd Hirsch, Ron Holgate, Cady Huffman, Judy Kaye, Dick Latessa, Hal Linden, Priscilla Lopez, John Mahoney, Donna McKechnie, Michele Pawk, Mayrann Plunkett, Hal Prince, Randy Skinner, Elaine Stritch, Lillias White, and Scott Wise.  

 

Available on CD and streaming at CD Baby.