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July 2024
- Sunday July 28th 09:00AM - Borscht Belt Museum
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- Sunday July 28th 09:30AM - Location to be provided after purchase
- Meet the Archivist: Sunday Brunch & Field Trip
- Join Borscht Belt Museum archivist Allen Frishman for a classic bagels-and-lox breakfast and private tour of his home, a veritable museum chockablock with ephemera saved from oblivion. An author, preservationist and former building inspector for the town of Fallsburg, Frishman rescued countless objects -- telephone switchboards, bungalow kitchens, swizzle sticks and hotel signs -- before the bulldozers arrived. Many of them make up the Borscht Belt Museum's core collection.
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- Sunday July 28th 10:00AM - Borscht Belt Museum
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- Sunday July 28th 10:30AM - Shadowland Stages
- Mitzvah or Shandah
- Mitzvah or Shandah is a lively, interactive event based on a conversational card game. It brings people together to laugh about their shared Jewish experiences, debate humorous cultural scenarios, and connect with one another. Suitable for all ages, especially intergenerational audiences. Hosted by Danielle Brody.
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- Sunday July 28th 11:00AM - Market Street Studios
- All About Kugel: Sweet, Savory, and Comforting
- Come for the nosh, stay for the drash—it's kugel! Culinary historian Avery Robinson explores Jewish American cultural identity through the lens of this culturally significant Ashkenazi casserole. It’s a journey that begins in Medieval Europe and continues across the Atlantic to the Catskills where kugels' appearances and guises reflect a rapidly assimilating and globalizing American Jewry. Avery is a cofounder of Rye Revival, a nonprofit promoting rye as a climate change mitigation strategy, and he runs Black Rooster Food, maker of 100% rye sourdough bread.
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- Sunday July 28th 11:00AM - Borscht Belt Museum
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- Sunday July 28th 12:00PM - Borscht Belt Cabaret
- Borscht Belt Story Hour
- Come share your favorite Catskill memories at a Borscht Belt-themed "Story Slam." Sign up for a chance to tell a true, personal 5-minute story about your time in the Catskills. Inspired by The Moth Story Hour, story-teller names will be drawn at random for a chance to pay tribute to those wonderful bygone days and nights. Whether your story is funny, poignant, or wistful, we're sure the audience will love our story-slam trip through time as they vote for the best story. The winning storyteller will receive a prize. Following ticket purchase, email [email protected] to enter the storytelling contest.
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- Sunday July 28th 12:00PM - Borscht Belt Museum
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- Sunday July 28th 12:30PM - Shadowland Stages
- Ed Sullivan County Presents
- Prepare for a showcase of laughs and surprises. Featuring the comedic talents of Ron MacCloskey, Verna Gillis, Warren Shein, Scott Blakeman, and Linda Axelrod. Expect the unexpected!
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- Sunday July 28th 01:00PM - Market Street Studios
- Cousin Brucie’s “Dirty Dancing” Affair
- Join radio icon and Borscht Belt luminary "Cousin Brucie" Morrow for an inside look at his role in the movie “Dirty Dancing” as he shares his experience (and some secrets) about the production of this legendary Catskills flick.
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- Sunday July 28th 01:00PM - Borscht Belt Museum
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- Sunday July 28th 01:30PM - Borscht Belt Cabaret
- Borscht Belt Buddies – A Salute to the Crooners and Comics of the Catskills
- Carla Gordon and David Meulemans take you on a mirthful, musical journey through the songbooks of Steve and Eydie, Danny Kaye, Red Buttons and many, many more. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You’ll have so much fun, you'll plotz.
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- Sunday July 28th 02:00PM - Borscht Belt Museum
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- Sunday July 28th 02:30PM - Shadowland Stages
- Lucie Pohl: The German Problem
- Dive into a new solo show by German-born-NYC-raised-Jewish-Romanian actress, comedian and NY Innovative Theatre Award nominee Lucie Pohl. It’s a show about identity, apologies and the tragically funny burden of being… German.
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- Sunday July 28th 03:00PM - Borscht Belt Cabaret
- Borscht Belt Serenade
- The Borscht Belt famously launched the careers of countless comedians who went on to influence American entertainment. But Route 17 wasn’t just the road to comedy - there was also music. Broadway’s Jill Abramovitz takes us through some of the hits performed by Catskills crooners over the decades. From “Makin’ Whoopee” to “Love will Keep us Together,” the show serves up a big bowl of Borscht Belt tunes with a dollop of history. Created by Gideon Evans and Jill Abramovitz.
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- Sunday July 28th 03:00PM - Market Street Studios
- How to Write Funny
- Join the New Yorker’s famed humor writer Patricia Marx and comedy writer Sarah Rose Siskind for a hilarious conversation about putting the punchline to the page. During their talk, Sarah & Patty will make 47% of the audience funnier by 43%, 11% of the audience funnier by 92%, and the rest of the audience less funny by 87 1/5%. Will the audience as a whole be funnier or less funny when they leave? When will they leave? Come find out, but make sure you sit in the right seat.
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- Sunday July 28th 03:00PM - Borscht Belt Museum
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- Sunday July 28th 04:00PM - Borscht Belt Museum
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- Sunday July 28th 05:00PM - Market Street Studios
- Paradise Lost: Capturing The Borscht Belt
- Photographer Isaac Jeffreys takes us on a mesmerizing journey through his critically acclaimed work in the Catskills. Inspired by the mid-century peak of the resort era and its untimely demise, Jeffreys seeks to create images that reflect the artifice of the past through highly staged, meticulously illuminated night photography. This talk will take the audience through a unique moment in time, with previously unseen images from the famed era of celebrities, under-recognized architecture as well as contemporary photos, followed by a short Q&A.
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- Sunday July 28th 05:00PM - Borscht Belt Cabaret
- The Jackie Mason Musical
- The Jackie Mason Musical is based on the playwright's 10-year off-beat romance with comedy legend Jackie Mason and features a hilarious cast of characters, including lovechild comic Sheba Mason and Off-Broadway star Ian Wehrle as Jackie. The story takes place in Miami Beach circa 1977 and at The Concord Hotel circa early 1980s, with 16 original songs which include “Ode to The Early Bird Special," “I Never Met This Yenta” and “The Finger," and highlights the romantic misadventures of Jackie Mason as Broadway stardom emerges and Sheba is born.For more about the musical, visit the site here.
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