{"id":55071,"date":"2020-05-11T09:38:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T15:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=55071"},"modified":"2020-05-12T03:43:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T09:43:17","slug":"joyce-pulitzer-thrilled-for-cherries-jubilee-broadcast-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/joyce-pulitzer-thrilled-for-cherries-jubilee-broadcast-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Pulitzer thrilled for &#8216;Cherries Jubilee&#8221; broadcast tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Joyce Pulitzer, the last few weeks have been surreal. Like everyone else, she had to deal with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and take measures to safeguard her own health and that of her husband Sidney.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55073\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Cherries_Jubilee_logo_sq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55073\" class=\"wp-image-55073 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Cherries_Jubilee_logo_sq-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Cherries_Jubilee_logo_sq-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Cherries_Jubilee_logo_sq-768x618.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Cherries_Jubilee_logo_sq-1024x824.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/241;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55073\" class=\"wp-image-55073 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Cherries_Jubilee_logo_sq-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Cherries_Jubilee_logo_sq-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Cherries_Jubilee_logo_sq-768x618.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Cherries_Jubilee_logo_sq-1024x824.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-55073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The logo from the popular play. (\u00a9Joyce Pultizer, Hariett Nelson and the estates of Lynne Goldman and Marcy Nathan))<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now, due to the efforts of CCJN editor Alan Smason and other members of the local theatre community, she is also taking a stroll back through time as &#8220;Cherries Jubilee,&#8221; the hit show she and three other Uptown New Orleans ladies wrote more than 23 years ago, is about to enjoy a one-time live stream reading over Facebook tonight.<\/p>\n<p>For Pulitzer, it&#8217;s like seeing the characters she and her three co-authors created come back to life again. In addition to Lynne Goldman of blessed memory, Pulitzer also wrote &#8220;Cherries Jubilee&#8221; with Harriet Nelson and Marcy Nathan. When it first bowed in 1999 at the Contemporary Arts Center, it became a runaway hit and enjoyed record runs then and over the course of several years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was the biggest hit Southern Rep had ever had,&#8221; Pulitzer said.<\/p>\n<p>The play spans 35 years and tells of the sisterhood between five very different Newcomb alumnae. When the play opens in 1960, most cast members are 22-year-olds and have just graduated.<\/p>\n<p>Gia Rabito, who originated the role of Ashley in 1999 and reprised it a little more than a year later, returns to play the woman, whom she says &#8220;needs to be beaten with a big stick.&#8221; Among Ashley&#8217;s less-than-charming qualities is a streak of anti-Semitism, which she seems to have inherited from her parents.<\/p>\n<p>Jessie Terrebonne Thompson takes on the role of Sarah, the only Jewish member among the cast of five main characters. Monica Harris plays Helen, a writer who becomes a confidante of celebrities. Kathryn Talbot plays Laura Spencer, the woman whose Garden Distrct home becomes the gathering place for the other characters through the 35-year period. Recently nominated for a Big Easy Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Margeaux Fanning rounds out the main cast as Linda, a Texas woman who keeps trading up for husbands through the more than three decades the work represents.<\/p>\n<p>Author and photographer Sally Asher portrays several local TV celebrities including WDSU-TV&#8217;s Terry Flettrich and Jan Carr. Asher leads off Act IV in the play by playing talk show host and anchor Angela Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Smason will serve at times as a narrator between scenes and will also portray WDSU-TV&#8217;s Bob Carr and legendary news anchor Alec Gifford.<\/p>\n<p>The live stream begins at 8:00 p.m. CDT and is being hosted over NOLA Theatre Talk, a service Smason created to connect, inform and promote the local theatre community.<\/p>\n<p>It can be seen over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/2588698454709787\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NOLA Theatre Folk Facebook group<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Theatrecriticismcom-252647605344604\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theatrecriticism.com Facebook page<\/a>. All three and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatrecriticism.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theatrecriticism.com<\/a> website were founded by Smason. The live stream recording will be seen as it is broadcast and then archived for 24 hours before it is deleted.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Joyce%20Pulitzer%20thrilled%20for%20%27Cherries%20Jubilee%22%20broadcast%20tonight\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8790,8795,3947,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55100,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55071\/revisions\/55100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}