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7 21 people from the Crowned Heads of State. It is truly Europe's most famous rags-to-riches story. With its engaging and uncompromising book, The Rothschilds is one of the boldest book musi- cals of its time, a heartfelt testament to family, dignity, honor and unflinching tenacity. Nominated for nine Tony Awards, the play` is the final collaboration from the incomparable Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me). The Rothschilds, much like Fiddler on the Roof, is an important, impactful and must-see piece for all audiences. Performances: Opening Night - Thursday, February 28 at 7:30PM March 2, 7, and 9 at 7:30PM • March 3 and 10 at 2PM DRIVING MISS DAISY Sponsored by the Belleman Family and Gilbert Rosenthal Written by Alfred Ahry Directed by Debra Clinton Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play This warm-hearted, humorous play takes place in 1948 in the Deep South, just prior to the civil rights movement, and is the affecting study of the unlike- ly relationship between an aging, crotchety white Southern lady and a proud, soft-spoken black man. Driving Miss Daisy A thoughtful, unemployed black man named Hoke is hired to perform chauffeur services for Daisy Werthan, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, who has recently demolished anoth- er car. Daisy is not pleased with her son’s deci- sion to hire a chauffeur and immediately regards Hoke with disdain. Hoke, on the other hand, is not impressed with his employer's patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice. But, in a series of absorbing scenes spanning twenty-five years, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to, and more dependent on, each other, until, eventually, they become almost a couple. Performances: Opening Night - Wednesday, April 10 at 7:30PM April 11, 16 and 17 at 7:30PM • April 14 at 2PM