Overview
Character Name
Zelda
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Mature Adult, Elderly
Role Size
Lead
Dancing
Non Dancer
Voice
Spoken
Time & Place
a shop/restaurant off the lobby of a mid-priced second rate hotel in the broadway theatre district of new york, (based on the real edison cafe in new york city), present day, usa
Analysis
“Easily 72,” according to the script. Polish accent. Zelda and her husband, Bernie, are Jewish Poles who survived Hitler’s concentration camps in WWII. They, then, moved to America and established the Polish Tea Room (a coffee shop / restaurant) in midtown Manhattan, near
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