So many of our theater heroes participated in this show.  They reminded us of amazing accomplishments – remarkable moments in history and moments of serious criticism that reminded us of why the government hates the arts so much.  Scenes from the past, and questions of the future made for a significant evening.

And now I will relate a story about the Cameri and its past.  Long ago, when Oren had a restaurant in the Yemenite quarter, we took an old lady who used to live in Israel but was now American to dinner there.  And as we passed the Galileo hotel that has since become a hostel, she suddenly said, “I know this hotel! I stayed there in 1948 when I worked at the Cameri when it was at Mograbi Theater.  Marcel Marceau was in the next room, because he too was volunteering!”  I wonder whether the Cameri people know that one of their first actors was Marcel Marceau.