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The Thomashefskys

Season 39 Episode 13

Watch Broadway's Judy Blazer as Bessie Thomashefsky and Shuler Hensley as Boris Thomashefsky re-create early Yiddish Theater. Recorded in April 2011 at the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center, The Thomashefskys is written and hosted by Michael Tilson Thomas and stars Blazer and Hensley with Ronit Widmann-Levy and Eugene Brancoveanu and the New World Symphony.

Aired: 03/27/12
Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Jody and John Arnhold, the Abra Prentice Foundation, The Starr Foundation, The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, the Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, the Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, Seton J. Melvin, the Estate of Worthington Mayo-Smith, the Jack Lawrence Charitable Remainder Trust Worchell Lawrence, and Ellen and James S. Marcus.
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