Musical numbers arranged after the originals by:
Michael Tilson Thomas

Orchestrations by:
Michael Tilson Thomas, Bruce Coughlin and Peter Laurence Gordon

English lyrics by:
Ted Thomas and Michael Tilson Thomas

Who Do You Suppose Married My Sister? Thomashefsky
Composed by Nora Bayes, Jack Norworth
Courtesy Jerry Vogel Music Company, Inc

Readings excerpted from:
Kaddish for a Giant by Ted Thomas
Book of My Life by Boris Thomashefsky
The Story of My Life: The Sorrow and Joys of a Yiddish Star Actress by Bessie Thomashefsky
Bessie’s Beauty Column in The Warheit newspaper
Di yidishe bine, the Thomashefskys’ magazine of The Jewish Stage and Thomashefski’s Teater Shriftn, Boris Thomashefsky’s Writings on Theatre.

Translations from the Yiddish by:
Chana Mlotek, Kalman Weiser, Ronald Robboy, Marc Miller, Dr. Eli Katz and Dr. Chava Lapin.

The Thomashefsky Project acknowledges the significant contribution of the following organizations whose archival materials were used in the research and production of The Thomashefskys:
American Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY and Boston, MA
The Archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum
Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv
Brown University: John Hay Library
Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York
Corbis Images
The Forward Archives
Getty Images
Harvard College Library
Hebrew University: Israel Goor Theatre Archives, Jerusalem
The Hollywood Museum
Jabotinsky Institute in Israel
The Jewish Museum of Maryland
John E. Allen, Inc.
Library Of Congress: Music and Film Division; African and Middle-Eastern Division
Maryland Historical Society
The Historic Mayfair Archives
Museum of the City Of New York
National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University
National Yiddish Book Center
New York Historical Society: Department of Prints, Photographs and Architectural Collections
New York Public Library: Dorot Jewish Division
Billy Rose Theatre Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
The Pasadena Playhouse
Saul Silber Memorial Library at the Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, IL
State Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Streamline Films

Created By
Michael Tilson Thomas
With Patricia Birch

Starring
Judy Blazer
Shuler Hensley

And Featuring
Ronit Widmann-Levy
Eugene Brancoveanu

With
New World Symphony

Directed for the Stage by
Patricia Birch

Written and Hosted by
Michael Tilson Thomas

Director
Gary Halvorson

Producers
Joshua Robison
Michael Bronson
Michael Kantor

Coordinating Producer
Elaine E. Warner

Audio Director
Tom Lazarus

Lighting
Alan Adelman

FOR THE STAGE PRODUCTION
Lighting Designer & Production Coordinator
Kirk Bookman

Associate Production Manager
Naomi Zapata

Projection Supervisor
Thomas Edler

Music and Script Supervisor
Deanna Hull

Costume Designer
Dona Granata

Hair & Make-up
Anne Ford-Coates

Wardrobe
Rachel Guilfoyle

Dialect Assistance
Fyvush Finkel

Casting Consultant
Mark Simon

Original Production Visuals
Jeff Sugg

Video Segment Design and Production
Richard Sloss

Media Consultation
Kim Rooker

Sound Design Consultation
Hal Nishon Soogian

Pianist and Assistant Conductor
Peter Grunberg

Props
Steve Lambert

Representation
Columbia Artists Management LLC
Tim Fox

NEW WORLD SYMPHONY FELLOWS

Violin
Karin Andreasen
Jennifer Chang
Karla Donehew-Perez
Alexandra Early
Brian Fox
Claude Halter
Will Haapaniemi
Jeannette Jang
Mircea Lazar
Elizabeth Phelps
Adrian Pintea
Anastasia Storer
Violeta Vancica
Daisuke Yamamoto

Viola
Lotem Beider
Joshua Belvedere
Elizabeth Breslin
Katerina Istomin
Adam Neeley
Yumi Sagiuchi

Great Performances is produced for PBS by THIRTEEN for WNET, and is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Vivian Milstein, the Starr Foundation, the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation and PBS. Additional funding for the Great Performances presentation of The Thomashefskys is also provided by the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and the Filomen M. D’Agostino Foundation.