The Sisters Rosensweig: Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, JoBeth Williams, Tony Roberts, and Caroline Aaron (Audio Theatre Series) [Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Wendy Wasserstein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2000

Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, JoBeth Williams, Tony Roberts, Caroline Aaron, Jay Paulson, Kala Savage, John Vickery, James Warwick This delightful Broadway hit chronicles three Jewish sisters from Brooklyn as they gather in London to celebrate a birthday. Wasserstein's three sisters include a brilliant banker and single mother who has given up on romance, a suburban housewife who moonlights as a talk-show host and a travel writer who still wants to write her serious book.

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A Broadway hit from the early 1990s is given an excellent performance on this well-produced audio. Music and sound effects provide outstanding support for the superb professionals working before a live audience. Taking place in London at a gathering to celebrate American expatriate sister Sarah's birthday, this comedy explores family and the familiar relationships of three Jewish sisters from Brooklyn with their male companions from 1930s youth to 1990s London. It is fast paced, quite clever, and often hilarious. L.A. Theatre Works appears to have made an extraordinary commitment to bringing modern and classical theater to audio in such an effective manner. Highly recommended.ACliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., OH
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"The humor will sneak up on you and occasionally make you laugh out loud." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works; Unabridged edition (December 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580811353
• ISBN-13: 978-1580811354
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 5.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,696,796 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #51 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Women's Fiction > Sisters

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ms. Wasserstein continues to delight, August 10, 2000

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Lauren Bonner (Memphis, TN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sisters Rosensweig (Paperback)

Reading a play by Wendy Wasserstien is always a delight, but even though all of her writings are to be savored, The Sisters Rosensweig exhibits an important mark in the author's maturing style. In spite of this maturation, however, the story line never grows stale and Ms. Wasserstein never fails to draw from her reader a smile and a laugh, and give to give us a refreshed sense of the type of person we want to be--it's self-help through fiction!

The Sisters Rosensweig follows the reunion of three Jewish sisters who come together for a visit in Queen Anne's Gate, London, and the joys and struggles they share concerning romance, careers, childhood, and family--joys and struggles with which we all identify, not only as women but as human beings. Thank you, Ms. Wasserstien, for another delightful treat!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sweet Family Union, November 11, 2004

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Aco - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sisters Rosensweig (Paperback)

The Sisters Rosensweig is a terrific, sweet and very humane play about a gathering of people, in particular three Jewish American sisters in London in 1991. Each of the sisters is stuck in some way, trapped by time in their mid-lives. They are joined at oldest sister Sara's London home by Sara's daughter, and several male suitors/friends.

Throughout Wasserstein keeps the tone light and the wit cracking. Everyone of these characters is intelligent and visible, knows the world yet remains perplexed by their own lives.

To me this is the type of affirming family bound play that warms, and though life remains elusive in many ways, the sisters know they have each other and use that love and charity to sweet degrees.

Recommended, smart and funny.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Sisters Rosensweig-great script, February 8, 2010

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Kathryn L. Murphy (Kansas City MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sisters Rosensweig - Acting Edition (Paperback)

I was looking for a good audition piece for a woman over 50, and my acting coach suggested this script. Not only did I find some excellent pieces, I found a great play!!!!!