Lost and confused in a shtetl's dark alleys By Wendy Rosenfield

Before even attempting a translation or score, the adapters of I.L. Peretz's 1906 play <i>A Night in the Old Marketplace</i> had a nearly Talmudic puzzle before them: how to winnow a piece designed for a cast of 100 into a musical with a cast of nine.

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