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...Zulu and the Zayda. Zayda means grandfather in Yiddish, and a pixyish, diminutive grandpa (Menasha Skulnik) is the hero of this "play with music" set in Johannesburg. This Zayda speaks three languages-Zulu Yiddish, English Yiddish, and Yiddish Yiddish. He has a black African friend and com panion, a tall, open-faced child of good nature (Louis Gossett), who strangely enough also speaks Yiddish a good deal of the time. Playgoers who know only English may feel a sneaking desire to hear their mother tongue, but that would be a questionable mercy when the dialogue runs to such dire profundities...
NYACK, N.Y., Tappan Zee Playhouse: Menasha Skulnik in Carl Reiner's remembrance of Jewish boyhood, Enter Laughing...
Last week, as the automakers got ready to shut down the lines for the changeover to the 1962 models, the major move was from the small compact to the big compact, or "intermediate"; not BIG, as Comedian Menasha Skulnik would say, but big. And since the buyers are hot for it right now, Detroit is also supplying lots of pizazz (sports car touches) and is adding improvements that reduce maintenance requirements...
...office attraction and nominal star of the evening is Menasha Skulnik, for whom the supporting part of Menelaus has been not-very-gracefully beefed up. Instead of a characterization, Mr. Skulnik offers Mr. Skulnik. He understandably refuses to give up the accent and mannerisms which have served him so well over the years (probably he is unable to give them up); but as a result, he is wildly miscast as a gentile, and out of key not only with La Belle Helene, but even with the bastardized Helen of Troy. Worse yet, he debases his authentic and endearing talent...
Detroit, Northland Playhouse: Comedian Menasha Skulnik in a new comedy, The Law and Mr. Simon...