Suppose A Wedding

one-act opera by Leonard Lehrman,
commissioned in part by The Puffin Foundation,
based on the "Scene of a Play" of the same name
by Bernard Malamud (from his Idiots First collection),

composed as an intermezzo between Idiots First

and Karla, known together as Tales of Malamud,
published by Theodore Presser.

Program cover/poster by Janis Sabatino Hills-->

Suppose A Wedding was presented at
North Shore Synagogue, Syosset NY, Aug. 28, 1996
and at the International Jewish Festival of Long Island
at the Suffolk YM-YWHA in Commack NY, Sep. 2, 1996;

the staged premiere took place June 1, 1997
at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
in Manhattan.

Adele, daughter of the retired Yiddish actor
Maurice Feuer and his wife Florence,
is torn between two young men:
Leon, a sporting goods salesman her mother likes, and
Ben, a neighbor who writes and whom her father likes.