The holiday musical you didn’t know you needed
From Drama Desk Award nominees Joanne Sydney Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum
This season, celebrate what unites us all
It’s December 1979 in Clarksville, West Virginia, and the mayor wants to tear down the region’s only temple to build a RadioShack. Rachel Rosenstein, the 17-year-old daughter of one of the town’s eight Jewish families, sets out to save the temple, but learns she can’t do it alone. Instead, she discovers what it means to be a leader, inspiring her entire family, best friend, a crew of local juvenile delinquents, and ultimately the whole community to change the mayor’s mind and save the temple in time for Hanukkah.
Running 90 minutes with no intermission, Appalachian Hanukkah combines traditional musical theater, ’70s pop, and down-home country fiddling. You won’t want to miss this funny, inclusive, and uplifting original musical from the Drama Desk Award-nominated writers of Einstein’s Dreams.