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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

"AMAZING... Makes you want to laugh and cry...

Not just for the old folks... See it!" 
-- NYTHEATRE.COM

"DELIGHTFUL... Fast-moving, informative, and funny"

-- JEWISH STANDARD

"JEWISH AS YOM KIPPUR

...but a whole lot hipper!"

-- JACKIE ("Only Murders In The Building") HOFFMAN

Yelena Shmulenson and Allen Lewis Rickman in comic faces from The Essense, a drama, musical comedy yiddish live show
Yelena Shmulenson in pink boxing gloves
Steve Steiner stares out in a crown, in the middle Yelena  Shmulenson with Allen Lewis Rickman all in comic faces from The Essense - the off-broadway Yiddish drama and musical comedy

"You guys are SHMALTZ-KILLERS!" 
-- A Fan In Sweden​

"I LAUGHED so hard I cried!" 
-- A Gentile College Student

"SHOCKING!"
-- Zalmen Mlotek
Artistic Director,
National Yiddish Theater

Steve Steiner stares at Yelena  Shmulenson with Allen Lewis Rickman all in comic faces from The Essense - the off-broadway Yiddish drama and musical comedy
Steve Steiner, smiles in a orange bow-tie, in a shot from The Essense an off-broadway Yiddish musical comedy
Allen Lewis Rickman with his arms folded, with a soul face, orange

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