Senior Happening: Naomi Miller Presents "Aging Schmaging!"

The Livingston Public Library invites the public to our Senior Happening on Friday, April 19 at 1pm featuring “Aging Schmaging” performed by Naomi Miller. 

“Aging Schmaging” celebrates legendary and ageless performers including Dolly Parton, Chita Rivera, Carole King, Bette Midler, Tina Turner, and Gloria Estefan, Stevie Wonder, and Billy Joel.  Naomi has invented the word “schmaging” to define performers who are aged sixty and above and who are still going strong, still hot, and still got what it takes!

Naomi Miller loves to entertain. She has been performing since grade school, when she was discovered while singing in the acoustically tiled walls of the mikveh run by her parents for Paterson's Jewish community.  Born in Landsburg, Germany, in a displaced persons camp after the War, Naomi's first language and first love was Yiddish.  As she grew up to the sounds of the Jewish shows on WEVD radio, Naomi dreamed that one day she, too, would be on radio, a dream which came true.

The songs from her first hit recordings, Yiddish is in My Genes, Keeping Our Dreams Alive, From Klezmer to Broadway and From Broadway to Klezmer are played on Jewish radio shows everyday across the country.. Her latest recording, Love, Marriage, Children & Liposuction, is also just as popular. 

Naomi has performed concerts throughout the United States and in The Czech Republic, Spain, Canada, Puerto Rico, Greece and Israel.  For several years, she was a featured performer at The Wallington Exchange, an international nightclub, where she expanded her repertoire to include Pop and Broadway music. Naomi also had the distinction of being selected as one of the top ten Jewish female performers in the country by Lilith magazine. She has also had the honor of studying with actress/singer Tovah Feldshuh, who received the  Drama Desk Award for her one woman show, "Golda's Balcony," and more recently won accolades for "Irena's Vow."

The Senior Happening is a monthly series that allows attendees (“Seniors” or otherwise) to socialize during the first part of the program (12 until 12:45 pm) by bringing a bag lunch, while enjoying desserts and coffee served by the Friends of the Library volunteers. The program and entertainment then begins at 1 pm.

Registration is required and may be done in person at the library; by telephone at (973) 992-4600; or online at www.livingstonlibrary.org. Registration begins on April 1st for Livingston residents and other Essex County residents may register starting on April 15th. 

Senior Happening is made possible in part by funds from the Essex County Division of Cultural Affairs, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and through the support from the Friends of the Livingston Library.