Based on the award-winning picture book by Elsa Okon Rael, When Zaydeh Danced on Eldridge Street, starring Jordan Charney (Ghostbusters, Hill Street Blues) as Zaydeh, is a family musical that tells the story of Zeesie — a bright, inquisitive girl on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1935 — and what surprises await her and her very stern grandfather on Simchat Torah when they go to shul together. This concert reading of the new musical by Rael, Shellen Lubin, and Matthew Gandolfo will include a talkback with Lubin, Gandolfo, and actors after the Friday noon performance.