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I Am Anne Frank

Music by Michael Cohen
Lyrics by Enid Futterman
Book by Enid Futterman
Based on The Diary of Anne Frank
Opened 1996?

Synopsis

Song List

Dear Kitty, I Am Thirteen Years old
Diary Entry: July 11, 1942
Hollywood
The First Chanukah Night/Diary Entry: December 7, 1942
Dear Kitty, In The Night In The Dark...
Diary Entry: June 13, !944
Dear Kitty, I Am Longing..
Diary Entries: October 3, 1942 & April 2, 1943
I Remember
Diary Entry: June 15, 1944
I Think Myself Out
Diary Entry: April 11, 1944
Nightmare
Diary Entries: November 7, 1942 & March 18 & 24, 1944
I Am Anne Frank
I'm Not A Jew
Dear Kitty

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The artist, Enid Futterman , February 3, 2000
My journey with Anne Frank
Michael Cohen and I began work on what was to become I AM ANNE FRANK, seemingly because my friend Andrea Marcovicci was wearing her hair in a way that made her resemble the famous photograph on the cover of the diary. It was many years before I knew the real reason.

When I read her diary, I identified with Anne, because I too was a dark-haired, green-eyed, slightly-built, 14 year old Jewish girl, trying to become a woman and a writer. I didn't understand that the difference between us was greater than the difference between the horror of Belsen and the shelter of Brooklyn. Perhaps the real difference was just the opposite; Anne Frank did not think or write like a victim.

She knew evil, but she also knew something about the essential goodness of the soul, if not the character. Evil triumphed in Bergen-Belsen, but the spiritual war was won. For me that is the point of her diary. Anne died, but she won.

She became a woman, a writer, and a Jew, all at the same time and in the same extraordinary, heightened circumstances. She came into her faith just as she came into her body, and her singular, unfiltered voice.

I AM ANNE FRANK describes the course of her artistic, psychological and spiritual journey--the arc of an inner life that refuses to die. It is our attempt, Michael Cohen's and mine, to present Anne Frank as the woman she was, and the survivor she is--a Jew who transcended her own suffering, and her own death.

Some say Jews share a sense of victimization, like a sense of humor, and that no experience of persecution is necessary to produce inherited guilt, shame and rage. My childhood provided me with no link to the Holocaust, and only an indirect link to a pogrom in which my mother's father was killed. But the event resonated throughout my family for decades, and I now see that my travels with Anne Frank are roads to my own transcendence.

If Andrea Marcovicci's face was the impetus for this work to begin, her voice, which can stir an impenetrable heart, was the inspiration. Michael wrote the music for the voice that Otto Frank, who never saw a production of THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, heard on the very first recording. The voice that gives Anne Frank her voice, and me, mine.

Related

I Am Anne Frank (1996 Studio Cast) [CAST RECORDING] -- Michael Cohen; Audio CD

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