A Broadway Baby Takes on a Co-Star

Amanda Claire Levy, the daughter of Tovah Feldshuh and Andrew H. Levy of Manhattan, was married Saturday evening to Joel Isaac Ryzowy, a son of Olga Ryzowy and Walter Ryzowy of Brooklyn. Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon led the ceremony at Three Sixty, an event space at the Tribeca Rooftop in Manhattan, with Cantor Ari Priven participating.

The bride, 26, works in Manhattan as a member of the investment and acquisitions group at L&M Development Partners, a real estate company in Larchmont, N.Y., that specializes in affordable housing. She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her mother is the stage, film and television actress who on Broadway has played everyone from Golda Meir to the trapeze-swinging grandmother in “Pippin.” The bride’s father is a senior counsel to the law firm DLA Piper and a strategic adviser to Gerstein Fisher, an investment management and planning firm, both in Manhattan.

The groom, 29, is a vice president in the commodities marketing group at JPMorgan Chase in Manhattan. He graduated magna cum laude from Columbia. His mother is a first vice president and financial adviser at Citigroup in Manhattan. His father retired as a consultant for the Long Island Power Authority in Melville, N.Y.

Pictures: Coral bridesmaid dresses

Ms. Levy was raised, for the most part, backstage with her mother, who she said “struck a good balance of being independent and passionate.” Ms. Feldshuh likes to say that her daughter graduated from diapers in 1990 on Broadway during “Lend Me a Tenor.”

As she became an adult, Ms. Levy said, neither of her parents wanted her to hurry love, and her father set the bar high for anyone Ms. Levy dated.

In 2009, Ms. Levy met Mr. Ryzowy when she was a summer intern at JPMorgan Chase, where he was already employed. They became co-workers in 2010, but they didn’t begin dating until December 2011, after she and Mr. Ryzowy bumped into each other at a Latin dance, called a Bomba party. Within months of that, he was invited to meet her parents at a birthday celebration for Ms. Levy at the Minetta Tavern in Manhattan.

By then, Mr. Ryzowy, who had immigrated to Brooklyn from Uruguay with his family when he was 6, was very attracted to Ms. Levy. “First of all, she’s beautiful,” he said. “She has the personality, spark and charisma that bring so much light and energy into any room she walks into.”

Meeting her parents was hardly a grilling. “It was a very relaxed brunch with lots of jokes and stories,” Mr. Ryzowy recalled. It didn’t hurt that he had demonstrated a strong appreciation for his own parents, who he said had come to the United States for the sake of their children. “Myself and siblings appreciate all their sacrifice and effort,” he said.

“Not only did Joel remind me of my dad, but his birthday is the same day,” Ms. Levy said. Soon, her mother took to calling Mr. Ryzowy “Guapo.”

“That’s ‘handsome’ in Spanish,” Ms. Levy said.

As the wedding day approached, Ms. Feldshuh offered her daughter the use of the wedding veil she had imported from Paris 38 years ago for her own ceremony. She also proffered this advice: “You know how to have a successful marriage? Shut one eye, and don’t leave. Some of it’s fun and some of it isn’t. It can be challenging, but you do not leave the field of play.”

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