Minutes into their meal that day, the couple said, one of their dining companions told Sher to shut up, then added, "There are too many Jews on board."
Sher, who is Jewish, admits she got angry, shooting back, "F- - k you!" and "How dare you insult me!" before storming off to her stateroom.
The next morning, the ship's captain, Commodore Bernard Warner, knocked on the couple's cabin door.
"You insulted a fellow passenger. I'm going to have to ask you to leave the ship," he said, quoting from a manual.
The couple, who met aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1991 and knew Warner from several trips on the QM2, were stunned, especially when he insinuated that the 95-pound Sher had pushed someone.
"He told two seniors we had to get off in Quebec and make our way home," said Sher, who produced the Tony-nominated musical "Shenandoah." "We begged him not to do this."
Evans, a former British navy man, said the commodore acted like a modern-day Captain Bligh, refusing to even listen to their side of the story.
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The comments following the article are anti-Semitic!
How disgusting to lock them in their cabins, two old frail people! If someone had said that to me they would have more more than a few swear-words! Nazis! I hope someone posts a picture of the fascists!
Having said that, I cannot think of a worse hell than being stuck on a cruise ship. It makes me think of The Magic Christian!
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