"A Grand
Idea!"
A New Documentary Film
by Adriana Davis
and
D-Squared Media
(currently in production)
Retired Long Island School Principal, Al Grand has spent over 60 years
translating Gilbert & Sullivan operettas into his beloved boyhood
language...YIDDISH!
His dual missions: Preserve the language and this musical genre for
future generations. His journey has been filled with triumphs near
successes and disappointing failures.
Through the years there've been readings and a few amateur productions
of his work, but his dream of a fully staged, professional off-Broadway
show has been elusive. However, after a collaboration with
The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
and a renewal of interest in Yiddish is the time finally right
for...
Al's Grand Idea!?