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What the people are saying about Cities of Light
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| "Cities of Light brought thrilling music, a great narrative, and a fantastic performance to Chicago Dramatists. Rebecca's artistry is compelling, important and unique."
- Richard Perez, Associate Artistis Director, Chicago Dramatists
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| "Rebecca awed all those in attendance. Her performance was engaging, her voice exquisite and her passion contagious. It was a pleasure to work with her and wonderful to be able to bring a performance of such caliber to our community."
- Arlene D. Schiff, Executive Director, Jewish Federation of the Berkshires
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"To travel with Rebecca for an hour through the cities of Paris, Berlin, Warsaw and Tel Aviv is a rare treat. This world is funny, vital, sometimes caustic and sometimes tender... But for all the historical interest that Rebecca brings with her multi-lingual adventure, it would still be nothing without her excellence on stage. Truly, Rebecca is thrilling, both as actress and a singer!"
- Anne Quesemand, Artistic Director, La Vielle Grille, Paris
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"Rebecca is one-of-a-kind: she's a riveting performer, a compelling scholar, and dynamic lecturer and workshop facilitator. Our 'Shabbat Residency' with Rebecca proved a huge hit in our community. I recommend Cities of Light Shabbat highly to any Jewish institution looking for cutting-edge programming which will entertain, engage and inspire."
- Cantor Rogerio Marx, Temple Israel of Albany
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"Rebecca brings a sexy and insouciant manner to her performances, coupled with amazing songs (and great English lyrics so you get the jokes!) Cities played to a sold- out, enraptured crowd at the Jewish Museum in London and in Surrey. Plus, she gave a paper on Israeli cabaret which fleshed out an important historical piece. Cities took London by storm!"
- Geraldine Aurbach, President of the Jewish Music Institute, UK
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"Rebecca owns the stage; she seduces and delights. Cities of Light: an aching affirmation of life!"
- David Y. Chack, President, the Association for Jewish Theatre
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| "Rebecca blew the roof of our State Yiddish Theater! Our audiences went wild for her, as did the students at her master-classes and workshops. She is the consummate teaching artist."
- Jan Cudak, Director, Beit Warsawa, Warsaw
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"Rebecca Fletcher's cabaret performance is inspired! As I looked around her Miami audience, I saw only smiles of joy among the 400 or so attendees. To be at one of her performances is to actually relive a lost era. I would sit through Cities again and again!"
- Dr Miriam Klein Kassenoff, Director, Teacher Holocaust Institute
University of Miami, Miami Florida
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"Rebecca enchanted our entire congregation! By the time Cities of Light Shabbat was over, she had meaningfully engaged with Religious School students grades 4 through 7, their parents, and all our regular service goers, not to mention a cabaret audience of over a hundred congregants, ranging in from age 16 to 86."
- Mike Wikes, Program Director, Congregation Beth Emeth, Herndon VA
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"Rebecca's talents are rare: she is a scholar dedicated to rigorous research, a fantastic singer and actress, and an engaging, dynamic teacher. She is uniquely suited...to re- kindle Tel Aviv's cabaret legacy and bring it to forward to audiences around the world."
- Professor Edwin Serrousi, Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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"Rebecca Joy Fletcher is an American Jewish songbird with an exquisite voice and an addictive passion for Jewish cabaret. She's a channeler: she makes the music, the humor, and the issues of the 20's and 30's so au courant, we feel we not only know the people of that lost era -- we have become them!"
- Jeffrey P. Edelstein, Project Director: YIVO Encyclopedia Project
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"Rebecca Joy Fletcher is entrancing: she seduces and delights. Rebecca's repertoire of 20's and 30's gems from around the world are magical, sexy, and very chic. And I just love the sound of her voice!"
- Simchi Shmueli, Artistic Director, Betzalel Productions, Israel
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"Cities of Light carries a whole world inside it, at turns funny, sexy, ironic, heimish, moody, heart-wrenching and spicy. Rebecca is the consummate performer --- elegant, theatrical, and tremendously fun. She's a mekhaye!"
- Mendy Cahan, Director, YUNG YIDISH, Israel
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"Rebecca Fletcher's 'Cities of Light' enlivened me with the power of Jewish culture. The melodies she sings and the emotion she expresses through her remarkable voice resurrect a time and place that is surprisingly relevant to us even now. Fletcher's art is a gift to us all!"
- Or Mars, Director, Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program
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"In Cities of Light, Rebecca Joy Fletcher provides a delightful and captivating evening full of laughs and tears... Through her a style all her own, she presents a compelling testament to all that can be achieved through the intimate art form of cabaret."
- Morgan Carberry, Artistic Director, El Dorado Cabaret, Edinburgh, Scotland
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"Rebecca Joy Fletcher has crafted an inspiring piece of art. By blending research, fine writing and her considerable musical and theatrical talents, she brings the lost world of Jewish cabaret to life. Cities of Light provides us the unexpected delight of glimpsing this remarkably dynamic world at the same time as we poignantly experience its tragic loss."
- David Moss, Creator of the Moss Hagadah, Jerusalem
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"As an artist immersed in Jewish life, I know how much hard work goes into creating a meaningful, rich and accessible show. Rebecca's hard work has paid off in spades! What Rebecca creates on stage is just beautiful, and she'll capture your heart. See Cities of Light!"
- Sarah Gershman, Jewish Education Associate, Washington DC JCC
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"Rebecca's one woman show will transport you to a lost world. Cities of Light embodies the ethos of Jewish culture... This is Rebecca's talent, her gift."
- Cindy Chazan, Vice President, Alumni and Community Development, Wexner Foundation
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"Cantor Fletcher is simply radiant -- what an extraordinary performance! Rebecca so fully lives her songs that she transforms in front of our eyes to embody a hitherto lost world. She provides not only a window into a specific period in Jewish history and culture, but by drawing her audience into an era so full of joy and hope, pain and longing, we experience that time as universal."
- Rabbi Jan Uhrbach, East 55th Street ConservativeSynagogue and
Conservative Synagogue of the Hamptons
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"...fabulous singing in English, Yiddish, French, German... It's incredibly sexy, funny music in any language!"
- the Manhattan Arts Stroll Guide, published by the Manhattan Times
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"When Cities of Light appeared at our congregation, the event was a great success. We were transported back in time; the atmosphere was loaded with fun, history and music."
- Rabbi Scott B. Weiner, Hebrew Tabernacle Congregation
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"Cities of Light is full of light! The incredibly talented Rebecca Fletcher takes the audience on a magical musical tour of the brazen and poignant in Jewish cabaret. Don't miss it!"
- Rob Krausz, conceiver/writer, Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh, The Allan Sheman Musical Hit
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"The Cities of Light show transported me to another world. A thoroughly enjoyable evening of entertainment!"
- Steve Melzer, Executive Managing Editor, Penguin Books
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