Re: Musicals/Jewish content

[Bob Wiener <wiener...>]

Alex, I'm sure that if you sat for a short while you'd come up with a list
of shows that have significant Jewish content (especially if we include
those based on Hebrew Scriptures).

Even leaving aside those that have an isolated song or 2 (Guys and Dolls,
Porgy and Bess, Street Scene... many, many more), we've already had: Oliver,
Rags, The Rothschilds and could add The Apple Tree, Fiddler (there are over
10 recordings in different languages), Joseph..., The Producers, Zulu....  I
have hardly begun.  And that's not even mentioning movie musicals and
recordings of shows that may not have been produced.  (Or recordings of
musicals in Yiddish (e.g., G&S) or Hebrew that seem too far afield.)

I imagine that some list members have done shows on this very theme.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex J. Lubet" <lubet001 (at) umn(dot)edu>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: Musicals/Jewish content (was Oliver)


> It's rather remarkable how few musicals have had Jewish content given
> the Jewishness of so many of the creative forces.



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