Some cast members, however, did get a chance to meet her at a dinner arranged by Ms. County Bergen search our Calendar Newport Skates Opens for the 2021-2022 Season Dec 04 11:00 am - 9:00 pm. Stern has yet to see the play, though family members hope to take her to a performance in mid-August. CATEGORY: Books Click a star to submit your rating.
“Leona, before she died, said, ‘I want you to know that I want to come and dance at this show,’ ” Ms. Stern about the play in 1998 and sought their input as she went along. “She felt that people who collected books these days didn’t do it for love, they did it for money.” Onstage, the women’s disagreement gives way to reminiscences, and two young versions of them take over: Robyn Kemp as Mady, and Jenny Vallancourt as Leona. Bob) and Mady (Kathleen Goldpaugh) having that debate, one that Ms. 26, begins with Leona (played in old age by Susan G. What does one do when two people have a business and come to the end of their life, and one wants to stop, and one doesn’t?’ ” Houghton said, “and as they were getting older and having to deal with the problems of old age and what to do with the book business, I thought: ‘This is a very interesting story.
Stern put it in a 1995 interview, of “thuggism, feminism, hashish, transvestitism,” and the discovery helped kick off a long career of literary detective work and book buying and selling for the two. In the 1940s, early in their business partnership, they made a discovery that changed the view of Alcott, whose 1868 novel, “Little Women,” has been a staple for generations of adolescent girls: they proved that Alcott also wrote a far more scandalous brand of fiction, anonymously and under pseudonyms. Stern and Leona Rostenberg, rare-book dealers in New York who for more than half a century were institutions among the bibliophiles of the city and beyond.
“Bookends” tells the true story of Madeleine B. The piece came about when the woman who took Sidney Poitier home for dinner met the rare-book dealers who exposed Louisa May Alcott’s dark secret. The New Jersey Repertory Company here has always had a taste for the unusual, and the genesis of its current production, a world-premiere musical called “Bookends,” is suitably quirky.
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