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Ojai's Only Ukraine Benefit - RAGS Broadway Musical in Concert
RAGS is a brilliant, heart-warming, and timely musical about Russian Jews fleeing for their lives from the murderous Russian Cossacks to NYC's lower east side in the early 1900s. With nothing but the rags on their backs. There they became the backbone of America's rags (garment) industry. The plot is frighteningly similar to today's horrifying war in Ukraine. The musical score of RAGS includes ragtime, Broadway, blues, Jewish and Irish and Italian melodies, patriotic (4th of July), klezmer, and jazz. It is beautiful, romantic, funny, and life-affirming. The book is by Joseph Stein (Fiddler on the Roof), music by Charles Strouse (Bye Bye Birdie, Annie), lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Wicked).
Why should you care about the story of Russian Jews coming to America so long ago? Here's why. These are just some Americans who are descendants of Russian Jewish immigrants: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Alan Arkin, Ed Asner, Scott Turow, Mike Wallace, Ted Williams, George and Ira Gershwin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jerry Herman, Dustin Hoffman, Bernie Sanders, Country Joe McDonald, Debra Messing, Michael Bolton, Timothee Chalamet, Billy Crystal, E.L. Doctorow, Dianne Feinstein, Michael Bloomberg, Herb Alpert, Randy Newman, Neil Diamond, Idina Menzel, Harvey Korman, Mike Nichols, River Phoenix, Joan Rivers, Neil Sedaka, Dinah Shore, Gene Wilder, and millions more.
USD 50 reserved seat tickets: https://americansongbooktoday.ticketleap.com/
Donations: https://donorbox.org/rags-in-concert-ojai
Price:
Reserved Seats: USD 50.00
