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A musical play will be presented at Arts West as a fundraiser for humanitarian help to the people of Gaza through the American Friends Service Committee.
The play tells of a young woman growing up in the ’20s and ’30s in Brooklyn society, a lonely child, who becomes a popular debutante, then marries a West Point man and lives in Japan, Europe, and the US with their three children. But after her husband retires, and they divorce, the loneliness resumes as she faces old age and disability. Some of the songs were written by the author’s grandmother, Rebecca Land Hooper (Eastman), Radcliffe Class of 1900, for her own three musicals, collaborating with Mabel Daniels. Young Elinah collides with her conservative father, a prankster, for she adores FDR and is a liberal her entire life.
