CHILD'S DREAM

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.

THE NEW YORK TIMES