Not in this picture are Director: Stuart Ross and Musical Director: Matt Castle.
BROADWAY SALUTES YIDDISH
A Benefit for the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre
EMANUEL AZENBERG, RICHARD FRANKEL & HAROLD PRINCE
(Honorary Co-Chairs)
Starring
BRUCE ADLER, MINA BERN, THEODORE BIKEL, JOANNE BORTS,
TOVAH FELDSHUH, FYVUSH FINKEL, SHELDON HARNICK,
AVI HOFFMAN, JUDY KAYE, LEONARD NIMOY, ELEANOR REISSA,
LORI WILNER, JERRY ZAKS.
THE ZALMEN MLOTEK/FRANK LONDON ORCHESTRA
Featuring
THE BILLY JOEL BAND
MEMBERS OF THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CASTS OF
JERSEY BOYS, MAMMA MIA & MOVIN' OUT
For
A GLITTERING GALA CONCERT
CELEBRATING THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE AND A REMARKABLE CULTURE!
Monday June 12, 7:30pm
123 West 43rd Street
December 5th, 2005
A Special evening honoring the Workman's Circle!
Below: Backstage form left to right: Robert Klein, Arie Mekel (Consul General of Israel), Moishe Rosenfeld, and Bruce
What a night it was at The Friars!
June 6, 2005
On June 6th, 2005 - 6pm on a Monday night - Bruce was honored at The Friars Club in New York. Fellow Friars and friends (pictured above).... LeRoy Reams, Michael Larsen, Bruce, Tovah Feldshuh, Freddie Roman, Alex Ribeck, Steve Solomon, Alison Chaplin, Judy Kaye and Fyvush Finkle! It was a fun evening for all!!!!
Below: Bruce and wife Amy at The Friars!
Drama Desk Award winners 1991 - From left to right: Ron Rifkin, Jonathan Price, Karen Ziemba, Kevin Spacey, Irene Worth, Lea Salonga, Bruce, Mercedes Ruehl.
THOSE WERE THE DAYS
Bruce accepting his first Tony nomination certificate in 1991 for Best Featured Actor in a Musical ("Those Were The Days") Left to right: Isabelle Stevenson, Bruce, Cy Feurer. He won the Drama Desk Award that year in the same catagory as you can see in the first picture above!.
CRAZY FOR YOU
Above: Harry Groener and Bruce accepting their Tony Nomination certicicates - Harry for Best Performance by an Actor in A Lead role in a Musical and Bruce for Best Performance by an Actor in A Featured role in a musical (1992)
Below: Harry Groener and Bruce (both Tony Award nominees in 1992 for their performances) doing "What Causes That" in "Crazy For You" at the Shubert Theatre
Below: Bruce, Carol Channing, Mike Larsen celebrating backstage after performing "Rumania, Rumania" (One of Miss Channings all-time favorite songs) at an evening celebrating her receiving of the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater.
The Oscar Hammerstein Lifetime Achievement Awards
2004 Honoree - Miss Carol Channing
Above: Bruce, Carol Channing, Mike Larsen celebrating backstage after performing "Rumania, Rumania" (One of Miss Channings all-time favorite songs).
Here's what Liz Smith of the New York Post had to say about Bruces' part in the proceedings!!!!!
..... I was part of a crowd at the York Theater saluting Carol with a lifetime achievement award. ..... Carol was the first performer to get the Oscar Hammerstein Award.
.... Almost everybody in this tribute was first rate, but my favorite was a man I’d never seen before - Bruce Adler.
Adler is the last of the famous Yiddish theater family, and he is a pistol. He sang “Rumania,” the song Carol had used for her very first audition back in the ’40s. It’s in Yiddish, so it was funny to think of the Christian Scientist Carol singing it. Let me assure you, it is one of the cleverest and most beguiling things I’ve seen onstage. I hope someday I will have the occasion to hire the gifted Mr. Adler for an entertainment.
below: "Fiddler On The Roof":
Bruce as Tevye in last seasons production of "Fiddler On The Roof" at the 12,000 seat St. Louis Muny, St. Louis, MO
MY FAIR LADY
"My Fair Lady" with Bruce as Alfred P. Doolittle...and Robert Westenberg as Professor Henry Higgins. Below... Bruce doing "Get Me To The Church On Time"...
ANYTHING GOES
Below: Bruce, Chita Rivera,George Dvorsky in the Papermill Playhouse production of "Anything Goes"
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
Hysterium in "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum...... below Hysterium being "Lovely"......
JUST HANGIN' BACKSTAGE AT A CONCERT
Below: Backstage at a concert with Musical Director and good friend Michael Larsen..
Below: Visitors backstage at Town Hall during the run of "Komedy Ala Karte" with co-stars Mal Z. Lawrence and Dudu Fisher are Mel Brooks, the late Miss Ann Bancroft and from the producers office of NYK Productions, Alison Chaplin.
"TO LIFE" TELTHON - LOS ANGELES - 2003
At the 2003 "To Life Telethon" in Los Angeles with dear and good friends: L to R. Me, Jackie Bright, Kevin Bright and Shirley Bright .... Jackie Bright was Bruces' manager for years, and also the manager for Mom and Dad (Henrietta Jacobson and Julius Adler) as well as uncle Irving Jacobson (The original Sancho Panza in "Man Of LaMancha)........ don't know who the guy in the background is!!!!! Below at same telethon with Jon Voight..
1988 - Actors Theater Of Louisville - Humana Festival - "Bone-The-Fish" (later to be retitled "Road To Nirvana). A cast photo: Top row:Left to right; Arthur Kopit (Playwrite), an actor whose name I cannot remember right now..(If you can identify please do), same with the Stage Manager. Bottom row: Barbara Ed-Young, Joe Rango, and Julianne Moore.
One more of beatuiful Julianne Moore and Bruce:
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - Below Bruce and Jack Seviere doing "Mushnik And Son" - in the Country Dinner Playhouse (Indianapolis) production of "Little Shop"
