Re: musicals

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don't forget Adelaide's Lament in Guys & Dolls ["the average unmarried female 
/ basically insecu-ah ..."].   even though she and Nathan Detroit are 
painstakingly pegged as New Yawkers rather than explicit Jews (in fact, a la 
an earlier Seinfeld, they're sort of un-Jews), she goes from the liturgical 
"holy book" rubato of the medical text (khazones) into the big showtime "In 
other words" of her own vernacular translations (Broadway/Tin Pan Alley 
secular style).  I once looked up the backgrounds of Frank Loesser and Abe 
Burrows — don't remember it all now, definitely not 100% Jewish if even 
mostly, I forget; but their stylization is great, and certainly as New 
Yorkers they could've had it in their ears.

- Eve

drummer/bandleader
Metropolitan Klezmer & Isle of Klezbos
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