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JUDGMENT DAY BY ROB ULIN; LAUGHTER IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL - - ELECTRIFYING DESIGN: A CENTURY OF LIGHTING
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JUDGMENT DAY BY ROB ULIN - LAUGHTER IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL
When you put together exceptional actors who bring to life a marvelously written script what you are enjoying is pure brilliance. In this case, that is the laugh out loud Judgment Day.
Written by Golden Globe award winning Rob Ulin, Matthew Penn smartly and smoothly directs Tony winner Jason Alexander (Sammy Campos), Tony winner Patti LuPone (Sister Margaret), Tony winner Santino Fontana (Father Michael), Grammy winner Michael McKean (Monsignor) Loretta Devine (Della), Josh Johnston (Doctor), Bianca LaVerne Jones (Principal), Julian Emile Lerner (Casper), Justina Machado (Tracy), Carol Mansell (Edna), Michael Mastro (Jackson) and Elizabeth Stanley (Chandra).
The official release explains: In Rob Ulin‘s Judgment Day, Sammy Campo, a deeply corrupt, morally bankrupt lawyer (Alexander), has a near-death experience in which he encounters a terrifying angel (LuPone) who threatens him with eternal damnation. In a desperate attempt to redeem himself, Sammy teams with a Catholic priest (Fontana), who is having his own crisis of faith as he struggles against Church authority (a monsignor played by McKean). Together Sammy and the priest debate the timeless questions of Western philosophy – “morality,” “faith,” and “Are people any damn good?” – as they form an unlikely bond in this irreverent comedy.
The play opens as sleazeball bottom-feeder Sammy Campos is on the phone finalizing a child labor investment deal in a foreign country, set up as a charitable foundation, which he refers to as "a craft's program that happens to produce casual wear." Referring to the children he tells the investor: " The look on their faces at the end of the day when they get paid. They don't actually get paid; They get fed – assuming they meet their quota - they are absolutely fed . . . I don't know. It's like a gray paste. Very nutritiousness. A doctor signed off on it."
His secretary Della informs him that, again, he'd been called before the Bar Association. This time the lengthy accusations include money laundering and nakedness and urinating in public before the elderly and children.
Suddenly, Sammy grabs his chest. It's a heart attack leading to a near death experience in which he is confronted by his old teacher Sister Margaret who possess a maniacal laugh and the ability to scare the Hell out of him, Sammy is desperate to do enough good deeds to compensate for his previous behavior.
This is a hllarious moral's play which skillfully utilizes comedy to covey the message.
37-years since his last confession, Sammy confers with Father Michael. As Sammy reasons it - going to Hell is based on a point system and you get "more points for genocide than a hand job."
“I wanna figure out the rock bottom least amount of good I need to do to get into heaven,” says Sammy Campo to the priest.
Theological concepts and arguments are presented with sawed edged humor which pricks the sensitivities. Lines which are so pithy and polished that the humor engulfs every glistening facet. Words of the apostles are argued and the tongue in cheek comedy offers some serious questions as to what is right and wrong. All engulfed in the light of humor which will stay with you long after the play ends.
Flawless acting by Alexander who has never delivered a bad performance. As Sammy Campo, he knows the law. It's just his rationalization that a "wily lawyer can find a way around the law so the little guy has a chance" which leaves morality hanging by a loophole.
Sammy concludes that he can atone for his sins by opening up a free legal clinic for parishioners with severe legal problems.
Sammy first wants to make it up to his ex-wife, Tracy, a woman he unceremoniously dumped because she had gotten fat, cleaning out the bank accounts, taking the furniture and even the light bulbs.
What he discovers is that she was getting fat because she was pregnant with his son, Casper, a special needs boy who is now 9-years old and about to get kicked out of yet another school.
Attempting to interact with the son he didn't know existed, the exchanges between Sammy and Casper are tender with Sammy, perhaps for the first time, considering what is best for somebody other than himself.
Needing assistance from his free clinic is widow Edna who is being denied her husband's insurance benefits. She made timely payments for 56 years and then 3 months before her husband died, missed a payment. According to the contract, the insurance company can deny payment. Sammy pulls out all the sleazy stops including investigating what he can dig up on the insurance agent - to explaining the plight of his client who, according to Sammy, will lose her house and end up selling sex for a ham sandwich with some hairy guy holding her head down in his lap in a parking lot.
Sammy wrestles with multiple issues including having a dream in which he has sex with both his ex-wife and Sister Margaret.
What Sammy learns is that pursuing good works for selfish reasons and only being nice in order to be selfish won't get you into heaven.
This two act play has intriguing scene break music by Jordon Plotmer and artistic sketches by Michael Cummings.
This is a special, not to be missed, encore presentation from the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA, which presented this 83-minute virtual reading last August. Judgment Day will only stream from July 26 thru August 1, 2021, as a benefit for the stage company.
Make a point to watch it. Laughter is good for your soul.
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ART AND ABOUT
ELECTRIFYING DESIGN: A CENTURY OF LIGHTING Since the invention of the first electric light in the 1800s to the development of ultraefficient lightbulbs in the twenty-first century, lighting technology has fascinated engineers, scientists, architects, and designers worldwide, inspiring them toward new creative expression.
The High in Atlanta, Georgia is the exclusive Southeast venue for this exhibition, the first large-scale show to consider electrical lighting over the past one hundred years as a catalyst for technological and artistic innovation within major avant-garde design movements.
The exhibition features nearly eighty rare lighting examples by leading international designers including Achille Castiglioni, Christian Dell, Poul Henningsen, Ingo Maurer, Verner Panton, Gino Sarfatti, Ettore Sottsass, and Wilhelm Wagenfeld, among many others.
The works on view will demonstrate how these innovators harnessed light’s radiance and beauty, resulting in designs that extend beyond or challenge the functional nature of lighting.
Exhibition co-curators Cindi Strauss and Sarah Schleuning. Cindi Strauss is the Bill and Sara Morgan Curator, Department of Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Sarah Schleuning is the Margot B. Perot Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the Dallas Museum of Art.
On view through September 26, 2021.
SUZANNE COTTER has been appointed the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA). An internationally respected museum director, Cotter will commence her new role in early January 2022, taking over the reins from the MCA’s longstanding Director, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE.
Currently the Director of the Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg, her distinguished career includes roles as Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Serralves Foundation in Porto (Portugal), Curator for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York, and Deputy Director and Curator at Large of Modern Art Oxford (UK).
VILNIUS, THE CAPITAL OF LITHUANIA Zsofia Keresztes at the Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, for the Baltic Triennial 14 "The Endless Frontier." Photo: Ugnius Gelguda.
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will be displaying internationally recognized and local artwork city-wide all throughout the summer. The city invites visitors to discuss the artistic take on geopolitics in Baltic Triennial 14: The Endless Frontier, to hear the tales of indigenous Lithuanian dwellers, and to tour the city, encountering art displays on billboards every step of the way.
One of the most awaited expositions of the summer, Baltic Triennial 14: The Endless Frontier has attracted art pieces from Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the geopolitical interactions between the regions. The exposition, organized by the Contemporary Art Centre since 1979, creates a platform to discuss old and new ideas, the aspects of freedom and safety as well as traditional and modern values.
According to the curators of the exhibition, Valentinas Klimašauskas, a Lithuanian writer and curator, and João Laia, chief exhibition curator at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Central and Eastern Europe is an important crossroads for social issues regarding ideology, ecology, and economy. The arising tensions, conveyed through the art, are also ignited by disinformation, man-made industrial disasters, oppression of non-normative identities, and nativist nationalism.
Architecture: Isora x Lozuraityte studio (Petras Išora and Ona Lozuraityte). Design: Nerijus Rimkus.
The exposition displays several artists from some of the European political hotspots, such as Belarus and Ukraine and two from America.
For instance, Jura Shust, a Belarussian-born artist, presents his art display Neophyte II, which shows a group of young people hiding and performing pagan rituals in the forest where they seek freedom and safety from political reality. Similar escapism theme is navigated by the artists from Ukraine, Yarema Malaschuk and Roman Himey, in their exposition Dedicated to the Youth of the World II. However, instead of a forest, the youth choose to escape the oppressive reality by clubbing throughout the night.
The Baltic Triennial exposition is located throughout Vilnius, not only turning the city into one giant outdoor gallery, but also highlighting some of the areas favored by locals and city guests. For instance, the displays are held in the Contemporary Art Centre, Rupert, an art incubator near the highly frequented Valakampiai Beach, and a “SODAS 2123,” a cultural hub in the Station District.
The National Gallery of Art presents the exhibition Indigenous Narratives till September 26th. The exposition showcases the 19-20th century Lithuanian ethnos through the narratives of the least modernized country dwellers.
A multitude of ethnographic artifacts, photograph collections, and testimonies collected from various Lithuanian museums and galleries, reveal three historical periods—the Czarist Russia, the First Lithuanian Republic, and the Soviet period—that have impacted the Lithuanian cultural memory. Aside from the display, the Gallery also offers other accompanying activities: creative workshops, and a barley field installation.
One of the most famous art projects of the past year, Art Needs No Roof, comes back to Vilnius once again to display art pieces in unexpected parts of the capital until August 1st. Last year the project attracted national attention as a way to aid artists affected by the pandemic. Now, a hundred art pieces will be exhibited in outdoor billboards throughout the city to be admired and, potentially, purchased by the passers-by. The map indicating art pieces and approximately 300 works will be also available on the project's website.
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SPREADING THE WORD
AMERICA'S MOST VERSATILE ATHLETE'S HISTORIC MANSION Eleonora Sears by John Singer Sargant 1921.
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is up for sale. Many of America’s Olympic stars can thank socialite Eleonora R. Sears who in the early 20th century made women’s sports in the United States acceptable and popular.
The second child and only daughter of Boston real estate and shipping tycoon Frederick Richard Sears and Eleonora Randolph Coolidge Sears. When she died in 1968 at the age of 86, Boston Globe sportswriter Victor Jones wrote, she ‘was probably the most versatile performer that sports has ever produced — not just the most versatile female performer, but the most versatile, period.’ She was a four-time national tennis champion, the first women’s squash champion, and an accomplished horsewoman, who was the first woman to ride a horse in a major polo match. With her social standing and the wealth it provided, the home she chose was a glamorous Gilded Age mansion with 400 feet of Massachusetts Atlantic oceanfront and private beach where she lived for 40 years until her death in 1968. Named “Rock Edge” due to its location above the rocky shore, the home has undergone a meticulous 21st-century update and is now for sale at $22 million.
As a socialite whose friends and frequent home visitors included the Prince of Wales, Harold Vanderbilt (to whom she was once engaged), Judy Garland and Cole Porter (who played the piano at some of her gatherings), her oceanfront mansion was the perfect venue for everything from intimate dinners to fundraisers. Two years after Eleonora’s death, the home was purchased by a family-owned Boston construction materials company, Benevento Companies.
Built in 1904 on Massachusetts’ Gold Coast, the 28,000-square-foot mansion has 11 bedrooms and 13 baths sited on three oceanfront acres with a private beach and carriage house. All rooms have ocean views with most having fireplaces retaining the original mantels. Large slabs of white marble have been used in the spacious kitchen and bathroom updates. Large windows and French doors open to the terraces that fill the home with sunlight, creating an elegant beachy vibe.
A fearless pioneer of her day, Elenora was as comfortable at a society event as she was when she was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame, the Show Jumping Hall of Fame, the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame and the United States Squash Hall of Fame. With her large fortune, she felt free to do whatever she wanted, including wearing slacks, smoking cigarettes and riding horses astride rather than sidesaddle - all during an age when the acceptable activity of society women was not to stray too far away from the closest chaise lounge.
She was one of the first women to fly an airplane and was once named one of the best dressed women in the nation.
When she took up long-distance walking from Boston to Newport, R.I., her chauffeur followed at a discreet distance with a thermos and sandwiches.
Thomas Jefferson was her great-great-grandfather; John Winthrop and Massachusetts Gov. James Sullivan were relatives. She was a cousin of former Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, and John Davis Lodge, former Governor of Connecticut.
Her uncle Richard Sears was the first U.S. national tennis champion, winning seven straight championships from 1881 to 1887.
She died on March 16, 1968, at age 86. The Boston Globe reported her disputed will took two years to resolve in an agreement between the contested parties.
She had left an estate valued at between $12-million and $13- million.
Attorneys for Mrs. Marie V. Gendron who would have received Sears's entire estate according to the terms of the will, conceded that under the agreement approximately half of the estate would go to six Massachusetts hospitals and half to Mrs. Gendron.
Robert C. Salisbury of the Palm Beach law firm of Caldwell, Pacetti, Barrow & Salisbury, represented Gendron. They said that after payment of Federal and state death taxes, claims against the estate and specific bequests, the hospitals and Miss Gendron would each receive about $3.5-million.
Gendron's share included Sears's home in Palm Beach, Florida, her jewelry and works of art. Salisbury said each of the six hospitals had agreed to install “appropriate plaques or other memorials to commemorate Miss Sears's benefactions to it.”
The hospitals were Massachusetts General, Beverley, New England Deaconess, Boston Lying-In, Peter Brigham and the Children's Hospital Medical Center.
The hospitals had alleged “undue influence” on the part of Gendron, who was Sears' friend for more than five years, Salisbury stated.
The listing agent for the Boston home is George Sarkis of The Sarkis Team, Douglas Elliman Real Estate, Boston, Massachusetts
YOU ARE HERE a new commission by Andrea Miller to Animate Lincoln Center Campus as Part of Restart Stages
through July 30, 2021.
Visitors first experience You Are Here as a free sculpture and sound installation open to the public on Hearst Plaza. Each sculpture created by scenic designer Mimi Lien houses a speaker through which audio portraits of New Yorkers are projected. Composer and sound artist Justin Hicks has created an aural garden that stretches across the footprint of the plaza. Artists, ushers, security guards, educators, and other staff members nominated by Lincoln Center constituent organizations and community partners from across the city will tell a story, dance, sing, breathe, or reflect — offering a window into their experiences processing this past year.
Co-directed by Andrea Miller and Lynsey Peisinger, with choreography by Miller—performed by GALLIM dancers: Lauryn Hayes, Christopher Kinsey, Nouhoum Koita, Misa Lucyshyn, Gary Reagan, Connor Speetjens, Taylor Stanley, Haley Sung, Georgia Usborne, Amadi Washington.
Portrait Performers: Bruce Adolphe, Kiri Avelar, Dietrice Bolden, Jessica Chen, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Ryan Dobrin, Egyptt LaBeija, Jermaine Greaves, Milosz Grzywacz, Alphonso Horne, Lila Lomax, Cassie Mey, Muriel Miguel, Ryan Opalanietet, Elijah Schreiner, Alexandra Siladi, Paul Smithyman, Hahn Dae Soo, Taylor Stanley, Jen Suragiat, KJ Takahashi, Fatou Thiam , Susan Thomasson, Gabriela Torres, Valarie Wong.
JERSEY BOYS will reopen the Trafalgar Theatre in London beginning July 28, 2021.
Winner of 65 major awards worldwide, including the Olivier Award and Tony Award for Best New Musical, Jersey Boys tells the true life story of 1960s American boy band Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. From the streets of New Jersey to the stratospheric heights of international stardom, the world fell in love with their harmonies, whilst back-stage it was anything but harmonious.
The show premiered on Broadway in 2005 and in London in 2008 where it ran for nine years – six at the Prince Edward, followed by three at the Piccadilly Theatre.
The fan-favorite features all Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons hits including Sherry; Big Girls Don’t Cry; Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You; Oh, What a Night and Working My Way Back to You.
The new production at Trafalgar Theatre will reunite the original Tony Award winning Broadway creative team led by director Des McAnuff alongside choreographer Sergio Trujillo. The musical will begin preview performances on July 28, 2021 with an official opening night on August 10, 2021.
ART by Yasmina Reza. Translated by Christopher Hampton.
Directed by Christopher V. Edwards.
What is the value of friendship, of art, of money? How much would you pay for a white painting? One of Marc’s best friends, Serge, has just bought a very expensive painting. It's white. To Marc, the painting is a joke, but Serge insists Marc doesn’t have the proper standard to judge the work. Another friend, Ivan, though burdened by his own problems, allows himself to be pulled into this disagreement. In spite of himself, Ivan tells Serge he likes the painting. These old friends square off over the canvas, using it as an excuse to relentlessly batter one another over various failures. Friendship is tested, and the aftermath of action, and its reaction, affirms the power of those bonds.
July 30 to August 22 at The Roman Garden Theatre, Shakespeare & Company campus in Lenox, MA.
THE SEATTLE OPERA has announced a line-up of stellar performers for next season.
They are:
Ginger Costa-Jackson recently Cinderella in Cinderella (’20), returns as Musetta in La bohème.
Jared Bybee, recently Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni ('21), returns as Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro.
Kenneth Kellogg recently the Commendatore in Don Giovanni (’21), returns as The Father in Blue.
Michael Sumuel, recently Leporello in Don Giovanni (’21), returns as Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro.
John Moore recently Eugene Onegin in Eugene Onegin (’20), returns as Marcello in La bohème.
Soraya Mafi recently Gilda in Rigoletto (’19), returns as Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro.
Marjukka Tepponen, recently Tatyana in Eugene Onegin (’20), returns as Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro.
OSCAR NOMINATED ISABELLE HUPPERT will discuss her new film, Mama Weed, as well as her career, in an interview with Reel Pieces moderator Anne Insdorf. The interview will be broadcast on New York City's 92Y's website on Wednesday, July 28 at 8 pm ET.
Mama Weed is a female-centric French dramedy directed by Jean-Paul Salomé. He co-wrote the screenplay, based on the novel by Hannelore Cayre titled The Godmother. Huppert plays a translator for a Parisian narcotics police unit. When a huge shipment of hashish is headed for France, she impulsively intercepts it and then creates an elaborate disguise to sell the stash.
Isabelle Huppert is one of the most admired and prolific of international film stars. In 2020 The New York Times ranked he r second on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century (following Denzel Washington in first place, and preceding Daniel Day-Lewis in third). She earned global acclaim for her performance in Elle, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, and top honors in this category from the NY Film Critics Circle as well as the National Society of Film Critics.
She is also a renowned stage performer, whose New York appearances include Florian Zeller’s The Mother at the Atlantic Theater Company (2019), and Jean Genet’s The Maids (with Cate Blanchett) in the Sydney Theatre Company’s production that was part of the 2014 Lincoln Center Festival.
DOUGLAS WILLIAMS has won the American Theatre Critics Association’s (ATCA) 2021 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award for his play SHIP. Given by ATCA in memory of critic, director, educator and new play advocate M. Elizabeth "Betty" Osborn (1941-1993), the prize recognizes the work of a playwright who has not yet received a major production, such as a Broadway or Off-Broadway engagement, or received any other major national awards.
The Osborn Award carries a $1,000 cash prize.
Ship had its world premiere at Azuka Theatre in Philadelphia, where Williams is playwright in residence. In the play, a young woman returns from rehab to her seaside Connecticut hometown intent on scoring the most coveted job available: as tour guide at the local maritime museum. She also nurses an infatuation with a former classmate who once attempted to grow the world’s longest fingernails.
J. NICOLE BROOKS has won the 2021 Harold and Mimi Steinberg / American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for the play Her Honor, Jane Byrne.
The Steinberg/ATCA Award, which carries a $25,000 cash prize, recognizes an outstanding script that premiered professional outside New York City during 2020. Due to theater closures related to the Covid-19 pandemic, ATCA’s New Play Committee considered works that received in-person productions in January, February and March 2020.
The 2021 awards were presented online on July 21, 2021.
Her Honor, Jane Byrne premiered at the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago, where Brooks is an ensemble member. Set in 1981, the work chronicles a chapter of Chicago history when Byrne, the city’s first woman mayor, briefly moved into the Cabrini-Green housing project. The play gives voice to various stakeholders, including Cabrini-Green residents, City Hall flaks, members of the press, activists and Byrne herself.
Two 2021 Steinberg/ATCA citations were bestowed to Graveyard Shift by khat knotahaiku, produced by Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, and Verböten by Jason Narducy (music and lyrics) and Brett Neveu (book), produced by House Theatre of Chicago. Each citation carries a $7,500 cash prize.
With an annual prize total of $40,000, Steinberg/ATCA is one of the largest national new play award programs. ATCA began honoring new plays produced at regional theaters outside New York City in 1977, and the awards have been funded by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust since 2000. Plays receiving a production in New York City during the award cycle are not eligible for the Steinberg/ATCA award, recognizing the many other awards programs already in existence there.
L.A. THEATRE WORKS the world's leading producer of audio theater has announced that playwright/documentarian team-turned-Emmy-nominated television writer/producers Jonathan Kidd and Sonya Winton-Odamtten have joined the board of directors.
L.A. Theatre Works stands apart in its approach to making great theater widely accessible and affordable, bringing plays into homes and classrooms of millions of theater lovers, teachers and students each year. LATW’s syndicated radio theater series broadcasts weekly on public radio stations across the U.S. and daily in China on the Radio Beijing Network. The L.A. Theatre Works catalog of over 500 recorded plays is the largest archive of its kind in the world.
STEPPENWOLF has announced that ensemble members Glenn Davis and Audrey Francis will be the next Artistic Directors of Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
This new appointment continues Steppenwolf's tradition of its artistic leadership being placed in the hands of ensemble members, but this is the first time co-artistic leaders have been appointed by the 49-member ensemble in the nearly five-decade history and the first time the company has elected an Artistic Director of color.
Both deeply rooted in the Chicago community, Davis and Francis have built the foundation of their artistic careers in the city’s vibrant arts community. They each got their start at the School at Steppenwolf and, in 2017, became ensemble members under Anna D. Shapiro’s leadership as Artistic Director.
The co-leaders will shepherd the evolution of the acclaimed company in this historic moment. This includes creating equitable space for individuals who have been historically under-represented and marginalized in the American theatre and welcoming audiences from across Chicago and around the world to Steppenwolf’s new 50,000 square foot Arts and Education Center this fall. They will oversee the company’s celebrated history of productions that provide intimate exposure to the human condition. They plan to continue to center the ensemble in programming; operationalize the theatre’s commitments to inclusion, diversity, equity and access; and advance the overall artistic vision for the institution.
OTHER PEOPLE'S
MONEY
GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO OF NEW YORK announced the launch of the $100 million New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit. This two-year program is designed to support the entertainment and tourism industries in New York City.
The program will offset some of the costs associated with producing a show, including production costs for sets, costumes, wardrobes, makeup, technical support, salaries, sound, lighting and staging.
Eligible companies can receive tax credits of 25% of qualified production expenditures. First-year program applicants can receive up to $3 million per production, with second year applications being eligible for up to $1.5 million.
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In the pages of How To Earn A Living As A Freelance Writer (the first to be lied to and the last to be paid)
you'll find sex, celebrities, violence, threats, unethical editors, scummy managers and lawyers,
treacherous press agents, sex discrimination; as well as a how-to for earning money by writing down words.
FINAL OVATION
JOSEPH BEHAR 5 time Emmy Award winner died June 26, 2021 at his home in Manhattan Beach, CA. He was 94.
Early in his career, worked the Ernie Kovacs show, Wide Wide World, and Atom Squad. He won a DGA Award in 1961 for his work on the Ernie Kovacs show.
He went on to direct many long running shows, including Let's Make a Deal for which he directed the pilot, famously coming up with the idea to have models reveal the prizes from behind doors number 1, 2, and 3. He was a long time DGA member and spent the bulk of his career directing Days of Our Lives and General Hospital. He helmed the pilot episode of General Hospital in 1963, then came back 30 years later to direct it for more than 10 more years, winning five daytime Emmys for his work on that show.
In addition to his wife Carolyn Eberhardt Behar, Joe is survived by his sons, Jeffrey, Steven and Greg Behar, and their partners, Lori Behar, Tim Jenne and Jennifer Driscoll; his grandchildren, Alex, Mallory, Niko and Lydia, as well as Alex's wife Ami and their daughter Brooklyn.
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