Marcia Mitzman Gaven 1985. Gaven starred in the New York City Opera's Broadway revival of "Brigadoon", in which she played Meg Brockie, at New York State Theater in 1986. The story is about a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every hundred years, and Meg is one of the villagers. According to Sy Syna of the magazine "The World & I", Gaven was "a huge crowd pleaser" in the role. She was also cast in the New York City Opera's spring 1987 revival of "South Pacific" as the female lead character Nellie Forbush, a U.S. Navy nurse who works on
Nellie Casman In 1982, the musical comedy, “The Showgirl”, which she wrote with Steinberg was performed by the Shalom Yiddish Musical Comedy Theater at Town Hall starring Mary Soreanu. Following Steinberg’s death in 1938, Casman married two more times including marriage to chess master Jacob Bernstein. She died in New York City. Nellie Casman Nellie Casman (1896?–1984) was an actress and singer in Yiddish theater. She was born in Proskurov, Russia, and moved to the United States in the early 1900s.; She lived in Philadelphia where her father was a "hazzan". Casman showed such talent as an actress when a child, the